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    Rethinking adaptation for a 4°C world

    Royal Society Publishing, 2011
    With weakening prospects of prompt mitigation, it is increasingly likely that the world will experience a four degrees Celsius, or more, global temperature rise. Typically, long-term adaptation planning for extreme climate change faces a variety of psychological, social and institutional barriers which often immobilise decision-makers.
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    Early warning systems: a state of the art analysis and future directions

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    Early warning technologies have greatly benefited from recent advances in communication and information technologies and an improved knowledge on natural hazards. Nevertheless, gaps remain in early warning technologies and capacities, especially in the developing world, and a lot has to be done for the development of a global multi-hazard system.
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    An evaluation of India's national action plan on climate change

    Centre for Development Finance, 2012
    This report evaluates the design of India’s eight climate missions developed using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008. The report aims to provide policy makers, academics and researchers, civil society groups and other stakeholders a snapshot of the climate missions.
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    Global Transition 2012: challenge papers

    Global Transition 2012, 2012
    These eleven challenge papers by the Global Transition 2012 initiative aim to provide a clear perspective on the priority areas for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20. Topics discussed in the papers include the green economy, global inequality, the blue economy and green jobs and skills. The first paper in the series focuses on the green economy.
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    Green growth, resources and resilience: environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank, 2012
    This report describes an evolving policy landscape in Asia and the Pacific characterised by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of climate change and increased risk and uncertainty.
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    MRV under the UN climate regime: paper tiger or catalyst for continual improvement?

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
    MRV (monitoring, reporting and verification) was one of the most contentious issues at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and it has remained a highly debated issue in the following negotiations.
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    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

    Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010
    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 and beyond is whether the different positions can be reconciled.
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    Global Transition 2012

    The Global Transition 2012 is an international network that aims to catalyse a global transition by building a community of civil society organisations across the globe to promote and deliver a rapid
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    Information for climate change adaptation: lessons and needs in South Asia

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012
    Good information is essential to making wise decisions in a changing climate. However, uncertainty of climate change impacts and the complexity associated with climate vulnerability, alongside other issues, make the adaptation information agenda unclear.
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    A pocket guide to sustainable development governance: second edition

    Stakeholder Forum, 2012
    Since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972, the reach of sustainable development governance has expanded considerably at local, national, regional and international levels. This guide was produced in response to the perceived knowledge gap on the history and dynamics of global governance for sustainable development.

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