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    National climate change response: white paper

    2011
    This white paper presents the South African government’s vision for an effective climate change response and the long-term transition to a climate-resilient and lower-carbon economy and society.
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    Climate change, migration, and conflict

    Center for American Progress Action Fund, 2012
    This report is the first in a series of papers from the Center for American Progress that examine the nexus of climate change, migration and conflict, and its implications for United States foreign policy and national security.
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    Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana

    International Journal of Communication, 2011
    Community radio is well recognised as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities.
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    Sustainable development through policy integration in Latin America: a comparative approach

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
    The challenge of Latin American countries today is that they too need to translate socioeconomic development objectives into a model that maintains ecosystem services, biodiversity and low carbon emissions to support Earth Stewardship.
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    Managing climate extremes and disasters in Africa: lessons from the IPCC SREX report

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This report is a summary of the 'Special report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation' (SREX) from an African perspective. The report was compiled over two and a half years by over 200 expert authors taking into account almost 19,000 comments.
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    Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
    This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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    Protecting the poor: a microinsurance compendium Vol. II

    International Labour Organization, 2012
    The second volume of 'Microinsurance Compendium, Protecting the Poor' highlights that the number of microinsured people has reached almost 500 million. The report emphasises the role of microinsurance in poverty alleviation when combined with social protection, risk prevention, mitigation, and vulnerability reduction.
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    Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

    World Bank, 2012
    This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of poverty eradication policies affecting especially the urban poor and the health of children.
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    Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.
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    Managing climate extremes and disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons from the IPCC SREX report

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This report by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is the third of a three-part series of reports which highlight the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 'Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (known as 'SREX') for each region, and discuss the implications for society.

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