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    Better streets, better cities: a guide to street design in urban India

    Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, 2011
    Streets occupy approximately 20 percent of the total land area in a typical city, and they are the most important and ubiquitous form of public space. Streets are the stage upon which the drama of urban life unfolds every day. And this is not a recent phenomenon—streets have played this role since the beginning of towns and cities.
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    Achieving Mexico's climate goals: an Eight Point Action Plan

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2016
    In recent years, Mexico has developed and implemented a range of policies and targets to address climate change, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and transition toward a low-carbon and climate-resilient society.
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    Hotter, drier, wetter. Face the future

    World Meteorological Organization, 2016
    Issue of the World Meteorological Organization Bulletin. Articles include:
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    (Un)natural disasters: communicating linkages between extreme events and climate change

    World Meteorological Organization, 2016
    Issue of the World Meteorological Organization Bulletin.  The science of attributing extreme weather and climate events has progressed in recent years to enable an analysis of the role of human causes while an event is still in the media.
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    Green: at what price?

    Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2016
    Reforestation, environmental development, growth in the developing world: when does a green economy come at too high a price?
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    Agriculture, forests and climate change: can labelling play a part?

    Agence française de développement, 2015
    In the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, the international community agreed to mitigate climate change by assuring that global temperature will not increase more than 2°C between the pre-industrial period (1850) and 2100. The 2015 Paris Climate conference aims to determine the actions that each country shall implement to attain these goals.
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    Cities in climate change mitigation policy

    Agence française de développement, 2016
    The phenomenon of accelerated urbanization of emerging and developing economies is a potential source of harmful environmental impacts on people’s well-being. Major negative effects can especially be expected on the climate, possibly compromising, in the long run, large-scale local economic development. 
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    Atolls and climate change: strengthening resilience

    Agence française de développement, 2016
    At just a few meters above the waves, the atolls or low-lying coral islands surrounding a lagoon are one of the areas the most exposed to the many consequences of climate change (rising water levels, lagoon erosion, but also ocean acidification and land salinization, changes in rainfall patterns, etc.).
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    South Africa’s drought preparedness in the water sector: too little too late?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    South Africa experiences droughts on a regular basis, often associated with significant negative impacts on society and the economy. Droughts can be forecast, and South African climate scientists have been developing computer-generated models to forecast El Niño-induced droughts.
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    Is the livestock sector in Southern Africa prepared for climate change?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    The climate of the Southern African region is moving towards drier and hotter regimes. Livestock production will be significantly affected by the change and variability of climate, yet the response to climate change in the region has been unco-ordinated and sporadic. The drought of 2015/2016, which has been the most severe in 35 years, has forced policymakers to rethink this issue.

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