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Gender and international climate policy: an analysis of progress in gender equality at COP21
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2016While women play an important role in agriculture, environmental and natural resource management, they have greater financial or resource constraints, and lower levels of access to information and extension services than men. Because of these gender inequalities, women appear to be less able to adapt to climate change.Key message:DocumentWelfare impacts of climate shocks: evidence from Tanzania
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the worldâs most food-insecure region characterized by high levels of child mortality and poverty and low levels of human and physical capital (FAO, 2009). Countries in SSA, including Tanzania, heavily depend on a smallholder-based agricultural sector, which makes their welfare and food security particularly vulnerable to climate change.DocumentClimate change-induced loss and damage in The Gambia: an investigation of impacts on The Gambia farming community
International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2016This paper aims to raise awareness about Loss and Damage (L&D) and ignite conversation about how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Loss & Damage (L&D) can be linked in order to ensure more sustainable resiliency strategies for The Gambia.DocumentBuilding climate resilience to Noapara Town - a coastal urban centre of Bangladesh
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2016Coastal regions in low-lying countries are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, coastal inundation, erosion, cyclones and saline water intrusion.DocumentAdaptation Learning Programme for Africa: ALP results, outcomes and impacts report, January 2010 to June 2015
CARE International, 2015This report presents an overview of the outcomes and learning generated from the Adaptation Learning Programme for Africa (ALP) over five and a half years of implementation (2010-2015). It presents the perspectives of the ALP teams and CARE International, as the implementers of the programme.DocumentLarge-scale range collapse of Hawaiian forest birds under climate change and the need 21st Century conservation options
PLoS ONE, 2016Hawaiian forest birds serve as an ideal group to explore the extent of climate change impacts on at-risk species. Avian malaria constrains many remaining Hawaiian forest bird species to high elevations where temperatures are too cool for malaria's life cycle and its principal mosquito vector.DocumentEffects of climate change on the social & environmental determinants of health in Africa: what can communities do to strengthen their climate resilience
Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organisation, 2015The highest burden per capita of climate-sensitive diseases such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoeal diseases and malnutrition is found in the African region. These diseases already represent the main cause of death among children under five in Africa, 6 and climate change is expected to cause an overall net increase in the risk of such diseases.DocumentTime trend of malaria in relation to climate variability in Papua New Guinea
Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2016This study was conducted to describe the regional malaria incidence in relation to the geographic and climatic conditions and describe the effect of altitude on the expansion of malaria over the last decade in Papua New Guinea. Malaria incidence was esDocumentEconomic assessment of the impacts of climate change in Uganda. Briefing note: malaria prevalence in the districts of Tororo and Kabale
Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2015An Economic Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change has been completed at the national level in Uganda. As part of this nation-wide study, this case study seeks to assess the impacts of climate change and their costs in the health sector in the districts of Tororo and Kabale, drawing on national projections of climate change.