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    Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of the Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise Impacts on The Cayman Island's Tourism Sector

    2011
    This vulnerability and capacity assessment examines the Cayman Islands' susceptibility to climate change in light of its physical chanracteristics and the predicted scenarios. Specifically, it analyses how climate change is slated to affect the various sectors of the island's economy, particularly tourism, as well as physical infastructure.
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    Assessing the Effectiveness of Climate Adaptation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011
    As governments and other agencies spend more money on adaptation to climate change they want to know that their investments are effective — that adaptation will keep development on track, that there is a fair distribution of costs and benefits, and that climate resilience is being built. But monitoring and evaluating adaptation policy and practice is not easy.
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    Improving Information for Community-Based Adaptation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011
    Community-based adaptation aims to empower local people to cope with and plan for the impacts of climate change. Conventional approaches to planning adaptation rely on ‘expert’ advice and credible ‘science’ from authoritative information providers such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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    IFAD Strategic Framework 2011-2015

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
    IFAD’s fourth Strategic Framework covers the period 2011-2015. It presents IFAD’s overarching goal, objectives and thematic areas of focus. It also articulates the principles of engagement that will guide operations and how IFAD will deliver against the framework. IFAD’s unique mandate is improving rural food security and nutrition, and enabling rural women and men to overcome poverty.
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    Climate Change Latin America and the Caribbean: Risks for the Microfinance Sector and Opportunities for Adaptation

    Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2011
    This brief, authored by María Elena Gutierrez and Xavier Mommens, highlights the potential for microfinance to support climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the risks that climate change imposes on microfinance schemes.
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    Social Sustainability of EU-Approved Voluntary Schemes for Biofuels: Implications for Rural Livelihoods

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2011
    The rapid expansion of biofuel production and consumption in response to global climate mitigation commitments and fuel security concerns has raised concerns over the social and environmental sustainability of biofuel feedstock production, processing and trade.
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    Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A natural response to climate change

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2009
    Managing, protecting and restoring nature so that it continues to provide the services, which enable people to adapt to climate change, is known as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). Adaptation projects in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America directly related to the sustainable management of nature are the focus of this report.
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    Vulnerability, risk management and adaptation: responding to climate change challenges in the Commonwealth Caribbean

    Commonwealth Association of Planners, 2008
    This report seeks to address the dilemma facing stakeholders in the Caribbean region of how to create more liveable, economically and ecologically sustainable human settlements in highly climatic hazard prone areas given the existing financial constraints, coupled with the inadequate legal, institutional and technical capacity within the region.
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    The urban poor's vulnerability to the impacts of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean - a policy agenda

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
    Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) currently face many environmental and sustainable development challenges, with significant impacts on human health, resource productivity/incomes, ecological “public goods”, poverty, and inequity. In this context, climate change impacts in the region will exacerbate and create additional complexity, particularly in urban areas.
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    Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

    United Nations Development Programme, 2011
    This Human Development Report 2011 explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity, and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in generations to come.

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