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    Measures for climate change adaptation in agriculture

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2016
    In 2014 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), as part of its mandate to consider issues related to agriculture, invited submissions from parties and observers, covering four topics, in 2015 and 2016.
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    Climate change adaptation in agriculture: practices and technologies

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2016
    In 2014 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), as part of its mandate to consider issues related to agriculture, decided to invite submissions from parties and observers, covering four topics, in 2015 and 2016.
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    Mitigation of climate change risks and regulation by insurance: a feasible proposal for China

    Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 2016
    Climate change is one of the most fundamental challenges of our time. The extraordinary growth of greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions in China represents the single greatest obstacle to global climate change efforts in the coming decades. Meanwhile, China suffers from the adverse consequences of climate change.
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    Insurance options for addressing climate change

    International Finance Corporation, 2016
    Climate change has proven to be a major stumbling block to development in emerging markets. Floods in Thailand, typhoons in the Philippines, and droughts in Africa and India have cost thousands of lives and stalled economic development. Temperatures are likely to rise even higher, which will only worsen the impact of climate change.
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    The sustainable Infrastructure imperative: financing for better growth and development

    The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, 2016
    Investing in sustainable infrastructure is key to tackling three simultaneous challenges: reigniting global growth, delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and reducing climate risk.
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    The State of African Cities 2014: re-imagining sustainable urban transitions urban transitions

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2014
    The overarching challenge for Africa in the decades to come is massive population growth in a context of wide-spread poverty that, in combination, generate complex and inter-related threats to the human habitat.
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    Gender dynamics in a changing climate: how gender and adaptive capacity affect resilience

    CARE International, 2016
    Gender, climate change and adaptive capacity are intricately linked. Poor and marginalised women and men face multiple and complex challenges. Climate change further exacerbates these challenges and threatens to erode development gains made to date.
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    Cocoa farmers' perception on climate variability and its effects on adaptation strategies in the Suaman district of western region, Ghana

    Cogent Food & Agriculture Journal, 2016
    Climate Change has gained global attention due to its adverse impact on agriculture. Cocoa production in Ghana is also under threat following climate change. This study, therefore, examined farmers’ perception on climate variability and its effect on adaptation strategies in the Suaman district of Western Region, Ghana. It involved 240 cocoa farmers.
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    Agriculture under uncertain climate change predictions: land use options for Malawi’s smallholder farmers

    LTS International, 2015
    Climate change will have widespread and varied effects across the globe – increasing rainfall and flooding in some areas, decreasing rainfall and droughts in others. The average global temperature is set to increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the 21st century.
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    LTS International

    LTS International is a consultancy and project management firm that supports sustainable development worldwide, working on facets of climate change, forestry, water resources, ecosystems, landscape

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