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  Safeguarding forests and people: a framework for designing a national system to implement REDD+ safeguards

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012

  This report provides a framework for the national implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) safeguards. These safeguards are needed to ensure effective implementation of REDD+ so that it does not inadvertently harm communities and ecosystems.
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  A comparative analysis of ecosystem-based adaptation and engineering options for Lami town, Fiji: synthesis report

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2012

  This report builds on a vulnerability and adaptation assessment, which provided information on key threats to natural resources and the socio-political context of Lami Town, Fiji, and identified potential adaptation options to climate change. To further analyse these adaptation options, this synthesis report presents a cost-benefit assessment of four adaptation scenarios.
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  Understanding relationships between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people: the key to achieving REDD+ objectives. A global assessment report

  International Union of Forest Research Organizations, 2012

  This report seeks to better understand the relationships between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people, so as to support the achievement of REDD+ objectives.
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  The role of the EU, the U.S., and China in addressing climate change

  Social Science Research Network, 2012

  This article analyses the position of the United States, China and the European Union (EU) in regard to climate change.
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  Climate change impact, adaptation practices and policy in Nepal Himalaya

  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2012

  Climate change adaptation is an emerging area of research and development in Nepal. This paper presents findings from a study on people’s experiences of climate change and its impacts on rural farming, and adaptation policies and practices in different eco-regions Nepal. The study also reviews climate change policies and programmes initiated at the national and local levels.
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  Mainstreaming adaptation into local development plans in Vietnam

  AIT-UNEP Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific, 2012

  This report focuses on two adaptation projects in Vietnam: an assessment of climate change vulnerability in the Cat Khanh commune; and adaptation mainstreaming efforts in Binh Dinh province's fishing sector. Vietnam is taking steps to address its vulnerability to climate change with legislation approved to mainstream adaptation into local development plans.
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  Climate change governance and funding dilemma in Nepal

  Forestry Nepal, 2012

  This study explores and analyses governance and financing on climate change adaptation with particular reference to Nepal using a political economy and institutional analysis framework. The findings suggest that Nepal has attempted – unsuccessfully − to capitalise on international and national funding to implement its adaptation priorities.
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  Achieving gender equality through response to climate change: case studies from local action to global policy

  The Centre for People and Forests, 2012

  This paper presents specific examples of the work of members of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA), showcasing their diverse expertise and practical experience, as well as highlighting lessons learned in developing and implementing gender-responsive climate policy and practice at all levels.
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  Climate compatible development at the regional level in Mexico: the Yucatan Peninsula Accord

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2011

  The livelihoods of people living in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico are mainly reliant on coast-dependant sectors such as tourism and the development of oil and gas reservoirs. The impacts of climate change, including sea-level rise, threaten to reverse socioeconomic gains from these sectors.
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  Adaptation to a changing climate in the Arab countries: a case for adaptation governance and leadership in building climate resilience

  World Bank, 2012

  The Arab people have been adapting to climate change for thousands of years, but over the next century global climatic variability is predicted to increase unprecedentedly. This report assesses the potential effects of climate change on the Arab region and outlines possible approaches and measures to prepare for its consequences.

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