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    The economics advantage: assessing the value of climate change actions in agriculture

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2016
    Agriculture is a sector especially sensitive to climate change. It also accounts for significant emissions and is, therefore, a priority for both adaptation and mitigation plans and actions at global, national and local levels.
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    Vulnerability and Risk Assessment in Botswana's Bobirwa Sub-District

    Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions, 2016
    Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA methodology) aims at developing a common understanding among various stakeholders, including government officials, village committees and local communities, about the main hazards and issues affecting communities living in a given social-ecological landscape. These stakeholders constitute the Knowledge Group (KG) considered in ths report.
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    Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR)

    ASSAR’s overarching research objective is to use insights from multiple-scale, interdisciplinary work to improve the understanding of the barriers, enablers and limits to effective,
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    Endangered reefs, threatened people

    GRID Arendal, 2016
    In a recent study, a group of scientists mapped human dependence on coral reefs and future threats to them.
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    Forest governance in Latin America: strategies for implementing REDD

    Springerlink, 2016
    Global interest in and attention to forests have grown as concerns about global warming and climate change have taken a heightened position in international policy debates. Forests have been repositioned in international arenas as repositories of global value for their contribution to carbon sequestration and climate mitigation.
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    Policy brief on Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

    South Centre, 2015
    The issue of ‘intended nationally determined contributions’ (INDCs) has come to be one of the important components of the process towards the UNFCCC’s 21st Confer-ence of Parties (COP21) to be held in Paris in December 2015.
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    Impacts of climate change on the cryosphere, hydrological regimes and glacial lakes of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: a review of current knowledge

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2016
    The climate and cryosphere of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region have changed in the past and are very likely to change in the future. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. The atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants has increased, the atmosphere and oceans have warmed, snow and ice have diminished, and the sea level has risen.
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    The global climate in 2011-2015

    World Meteorological Organization, 2016
    The five-year period from 2011 to 2015 has been the warmest five-year period on record globally, with 2015 being the warmest year on record to date.1 The period 2011–2015 was also the warmest on record for every continent except Africa. During this period, concentrations of the major greenhouse gases continued to rise and reached record levels for the instrumental period.
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    Promoting urban green travel

    China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, 2013
    Extensive traffic congestion and air pollution from road traffic in Chinese cities pose significant health and safety threats, compromise operational efficiency, and increase fuel consumption. Factors that contribute to this problem include rapid and extensive urbanization, increased usage of private cars, and the deterioration of good walking and cycling environments.
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    China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED)

    The main tasks of CCICED are exchanging and disseminating international successful experience in the field of environment and development; studying key environment and development issues of China;

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