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    Role of domestic court and international arbitration in ensuring climate justice in Bangladesh

    2013
    Recently, an international Arbitration Tribunal, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), decided in favour of the ‘climate victims’ of Bangladesh against international gas extracting company, NIKO, and due to that decision, it will now be possible for the domestic courts of Bangladesh to hear the pending money suit on compensation.
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    The climate change agenda in Zambia National interests and the role of development cooperation

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2013
    This working paper aims to deepen understanding of the climate change agenda in Zambia. It focuses on three features: It provides an overview of the disaster management and climate change framework at national level, it examines the role and extent of aid to climate change, and it discusses the interests of the central government in climate change.
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    Rio de Janeiro City’s early warning system for heavy rain

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The city of Rio de Janeiro has developed a highly efficient early warning system (EWS) that is having an impressive impact after just three years in operation. The measures employed are innovative, inclusive and non-resource intensive, and are thus highly applicable to cities in other developing regions.
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    The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

    GRID Arendal, 2013
    The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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    Disaster risk governance in volcanic areas

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This paper develops an approach under Work Package 4 (WP4) of the Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas (STREVA) programme for analysing the institutional factors that shape collective action to reduce disaster risk. The key messages include:
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    Building resilience: Integrating climate and disaster risk into development

    World Bank, 2013
    This report, targeted at development practitioners and national policy makers, argues that climate and disaster resilient development is essential to eliminating extreme poverty and achieving shared prosperity by 2030. Such development requires start-up costs which can pay in the long run.
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    The Plumbing of Adaptation Finance: Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility at the Local Level

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013
    World Resources Institute working paper examining phase one of the Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative.
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    The environment and gender index (EGI): 2013 pilot

    World Conservation Union, 2013
    This pilot of the Environment and Gender Index aims to measure country performance at the intersection of gender, environment, and sustainable development. Socially constructed determinants can contribute to women’s disempowerment.
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    Weaving the net: climate change, complex crises and household resilience

    World Resources Institute [ES], 2013
    The 2008 global food crisis caught everyone by surprise, since it emerged from a complex web of factors in a way that is exceedingly difficult to predict. This issue brief by the World Resources Institute reviews the myriad of influences that brought about the food crisis, and how climate variability acted as an important trigger.
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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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