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    How to Track Adaptation to Climate Change: A Typology of Approaches for National-Level Application

    Ecology and Society, 2013
    The driver behind this paper is the need to track climate change adaptation progress and lack of ability to do this thanks to the complex nature of adaptation and the absence of measurable outcomes or indicators by which to judge if and how adaptation is occurring. The authors developed a typology of approaches by which climate change adaptation can be tracked globally at a national level.
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    Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Garissa County, Kenya

    CARE International, 2013
    In Garissa County, the impacts of climate change are already being felt by communities, who are seeking ways to adapt to the changes and to build resilient livelihoods. These changes are combined with other environmental, economic and political factors to create a situation of increasing vulnerability for poor and marginalized households.
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    Time to change the game: Fossil fuel subsidies and climate

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This Overseas Development Institute report argues that it is time to 'change the game' on fossil fuel subsidies in order to promote inclusive and green growth. It states that fossil fuel subsidies undermine international efforts to avert dangerous climate change and represent a drain on national budgets.
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    Addressing the barriers to climate investment

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2011
    This guide comments on the discussions so far about financial instruments for the Business Model Framework of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). It summarises the barriers to financing mitigation and adaptation activities, as well as discussing factors to consider when selecting and implementing financial instruments.
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    Climate and Development Outlook: Rwanda: Pioneering steps towards a climate resilient green economy

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
    This paper focuses on climate compatible development in Rwanda and the challenges and opportunity which the country faces in working on it . The authors describe a government that is moving from grappling with strategy and policy at a national level, to the practical challenges of implementing sustainable development at the budgetary, sectoral and district levels.
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    Setting the agenda. Chinese NGOs: scope for action on climate change

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2013
    The Chinese state and society are frequently engaged in an area of shared concern: the increasing threat of climate change. This report explores how a specific set of societal actors – environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in China – interact with state actors in dealing with issues of climate change mitigation.
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    Can Climate Change Negotiations Succeed? In: Politics and Governance, vol.1(2013) no. 2

    2013
    More than two decades of climate change negotiations have produced a series of global climate agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Accords, but have nevertheless made very limited progress in curbing global emissions of greenhouse gases. This paper considers whether negotiations can succeed in reaching an agreement that effectively addresses the climate change problem.
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    Malawi Climate Change Vulnerability Assesment

    US Agency for International Development, 2013
    The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment (Malawi VA) was an initiative of the USAID African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC). Its goal was to understand current and projected climate change impacts in central and southern Malawi, and to explore to what extent national and district government entities, rural communities, and households are equipped to adapt to those impacts.
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    Climate Resilient Urban Development: Vulnerability Profiles of 20 Indian Cities

    Integrated Research and Action for Development, 2013
    While developing a city level approach for the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat (NMSH) a question was raised: ‘How many cities in India are vulnerable to climate change and in what way?’ This is an Executive Summary of a study which lies in this question.
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    Policy and Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change: Case study on flood mitigation infrastructure in India and Nepal - Working Paper 2013/4

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2013
    This publication is the result of research conducted as a part of the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP). It explores the governance of flood mitigation infrastructure in parts of India and Nepal.

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