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Impacts of climate change on the agricultural and aquatic systems and natural resources within CGIAR's mandate
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012This working paper describes the likely impacts of climate change on the commodities and natural resources that comprise the mandate of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and its centres.DocumentTechnology transfer and climate change
Social Science Research Network, 2011Widespread agreement exists that environmentally sound technologies should be transferred from developed to developing countries as part of a strategy for addressing climate change.DocumentMitigation finance
Overseas Development Institute, 2012This paper considers what 'counts' as climate change mitigation finance, with reference to the concept of additionality, by reviewing a range of activities that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the five sectors that account for the largest share of global GHG accumulation: energy, transport, industry, agriculture and water.DocumentClimate-friendly agriculture and the clean development mechanism: an assessment of future prospects for agriculture and land use change in Latin America
Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2012Market solutions based on the trade of carbon offset credits remain a dominant feature in international climate change negotiations. This paper undertakes a preliminary assessment of potential of climate change mitigation projects by evaluating Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects related to agriculture and land use change in Latin America.DocumentClimate vulnerability monitor 2nd edition: a guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet
Fundación DARA Internacional, 2012The Climate Vulnerability Monitor measures the global impact of climate change and the carbon economy at a national level. It calculates and compares the vulnerability of 184 countries in four areas of impact (environmental disasters, habitat change, health impact and industry stress) using 34 climate and carbon related indicators.DocumentClimate change, its impacts and possible community based responses in Bangladesh - Bangla version
Norwegian Church Aid, 2012This paper aims to summarise current international and national literature on climate change and put it into language which will be more easily understood by development practitioners in Bangladesh and elsewhere. This version is in Bangla.Specifically, the paper is divided into the following sections:DocumentClimate change and agriculture: can market governance mechanisms reduce emissions from the food system fairly and effectively?
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012Agriculture accounts for 30 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. How agriculture is practised, therefore, has significant potential for mitigating climate change, providing food security and improving the livelihoods of food producers worldwide.DocumentThe World Bank’s culpability in climate change: the World Bank Group’s carbon projects in the Asia-Pacific region (1949-2010)
Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development, 2012In 2010, the 16th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the World Bank to serve as the interim trustee of its Green Climate Fund, the operating entity that will manage the financial mechanisms of the UNFCCC.DocumentGreen carbon, black trade: illegal logging, tax fraud and laundering in the world's tropical forests
GRID Arendal, 2012Between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, central Africa and south east Asia is being carried out by organised crime, thus threatening efforts to combat climate change, deforestation, conserve wildlife and eradicate poverty.DocumentThe scope for reducing emissions from forestry and agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon
Center for International Forestry Research, 2012This paper assesses the prospects of mitigating climate change through emission reductions from forestry and agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon.Pages