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  Adaptation to climate change: linking disaster risk reduction and insurance

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2010

  Development gains are increasingly at risk from climate change among other pressures. Adverse changes are already being observed in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation, resulting in drought, floods and tropical storms. Climate change threatens to undermine poorer countries to absorb loss and recover from disaster impacts.
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  UNISDR Briefing Note 2 - Adaptation to climate change by reducing disaster risks: country practices and lessons

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2009

  With the threat of increased disasters from climate change, many countries are already taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to weather and climatic hazards. This Briefing Note reports on case studies of eight countries where national and local governments and civil society have worked to strengthen their disaster risk reduction and adaptation actions.
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  Addressing the challenge: recommendations and quality criteria for linking disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change

  PreventionWeb, 2007

  Climate change is a fact and a threat to human society due to increases in temperature, variations in precipitation and intensive weather related extreme events. These call for the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). This study addresses the urgent need to link DRR and CCA and reflects on the opportunities and limitations.
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  A climate risk management approach to disaster reduction and adaptation to climate change

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  The relationship between climate change and security is a key concern among governments and international organisations. Security concerns include the potential for conflict over natural resources, population displacement, migration and humanitarian disasters due to extreme climate events.
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  Disaster risk management in a changing climate. Discussion paper prepared for the World Conference on Distaster Reduction on behalf of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group (VARG)

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2005

  Climate change is a reality, not a distant possibility in the future. Weather-related disasters are exerting an increasing toll on developing and developed countries, destroying lives and livelihoods and hampering development processes. The World Conference on Disaster Reduction is a testimony that international cooperation is needed to prevent natural hazards from translating into disasters.
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  Climate adaptation as risk management: limits and lessons from disaster risk reduction

  International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 2009

  Adapting to climate change requires that risk management be integrated into development planning and practices. This paper identifies lessons and limits for climate change adaptation from disaster risk reduction.
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  Convergence of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

  PreventionWeb, 2008

  Development faces a growing threat from climate change. Yet despite the significant overlap, the respective agendas of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) have been left to evolve independently up until now.
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  UNISDR Briefing Note 1 - Climate change and disaster risk reduction

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2008

  Climate change and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are closely linked. Increased extreme weather events in the future are likely to increase the number and scale of disasters while the existing methods and tools of DRR provide powerful capacities for adaptation to climate change.
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  Scoping meeting for an IPCC special report on extreme events and disasters: managing the risks

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2009

  These proceedings compile the documentation used to inform the panel’s decision to undertake the special report on “Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation”.
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  Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook

  CARE International, 2009

  Effective adaptation is based on a solid understanding of vulnerability to climate change. The impacts of climate change affect people differently based on their capacity to respond. What this means is that many of the factors which shape vulnerability to climate change have nothing to do with the climate.

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