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    Expert seminar: migration and the environment

    International Organization for Migration, 2008
    Environmental degradation, climate change and migration are not new to the global community. However, managing these phenomena has become both more challenging and more critical to ensuring human security and sustainable development.
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    Climate change, vulnerability and livelihood: possibilities and prospect of the Charlands of Bangladesh

    Unnayan Onneshan, 2008
    This paper examines the vulnerability situation of people in the Charlands of Bangladesh. These are sandbars that emerge as islands within the river channel or as attached land to the riverbanks as a result of the dynamics of erosion and accretion in the rivers.
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    Climate change and forced migration

    Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2008
    Despite growing concern of the international community about the consequences of migration resulting from environmental deterioration, research on environment and migration remains limited. This paper sets out to understand the reasons why environmental factors have been neglected by migration studies, and proposes a new definition of population movements induced by environmental factors.
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    Political economy of Bali Climate Conference: a roadmap of climate commercialization

    Equity & Justice Working Group, 2008
    This policy discussion paper critically reviews the UNFCCC climate change negotiations held in Bali in December 2007. It is intended to provide an insight to the readers, especially developing country’s policy makers and negotiators, on the recent dimension of mitigating climate change impacts.
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    The right to development in a climate constrained world: the Greenhouse Development Rights framework

    Ecoequity, 2007
    This paper presents an exposition of the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework and an indicative quantification of its implications. Through a human development lens, it looks at the key issues, challenges and politics in a GDR framework.
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    A climate of conflict

    SIDA Studies, 2008
    Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, as its starting point and looks at the social and human consequences that are likely to ensue – particularly the risks of conflict and instability.
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    A climate of change in Samoa

    Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2006
    This briefing paper details how the Samoa Red Cross Society is seeking to reduce the vulnerability of the local community to climate change - weather records show that there has been a steady increase in temperature and a decrease in rainfall.
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    Preparing for climate change in Vietnam

    Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2007
    Vietnam has always suffered from extreme weather events – typhoons; sea surges; heavy rains and drought. As climate change will only aggravate such adverse conditions, the Vietnam Red Cross started a pilot project  in 2003 to integrate climate change into its existing disaster preparedness programmes. A number of key lessons have been learned since the process began:
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    Making sense of climate change, natural disasters and displacement: a work in progress

    Brookings Institution, 2007
    This report discusses some of the problems with the current debate on climate change’s impact on displacement. In doing so, it reviews what is known about climate change and considers alternative ways that climate change relates to environmental factors, which in turn influence displacement.
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    The Red Cross / Red Crescent climate guide

    Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2007
    Climate change presents additional challenges for humanitarian organisations responding to disasters and complex emergencies. This guide provides a basic overview of climate change science and its implications for the work of Red Cross / Red Crescent Societies. This Guide is broken down into two main components:

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