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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change poverty and vulnerability

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  Low carbon development and poverty: exploring poverty alleviating mitigation action in developing countries

  Energy Research Centre, 2012

  Climate change and poverty mostly fall into the adaptation category in the current research literature and relevant policy making due to the assumption that poor countries produce only low carbon emissions.
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  Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific: an institutional and policy analysis

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012

  Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) both share a common focus: reducing the vulnerability of communities and contributing to sustainable development. This study provides an analysis of the current level of integration of DDR and CCA in the Pacific region, with an emphasis on the institutional and policy environment.
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  Indigenous peoples and the green climate fund: a technical briefing for indigenous peoples, policymakers and support groups

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2012

  Through the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC), indigenous peoples seek recognition of their contribution to climate change issues and respect for their right to participate in Green Climate Fund (GCF) activities and decision-making.
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  Making cities resilient report 2012

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012

  This report, written by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), provides a global snapshot of how local governments reduce disaster risk and identifies trends in the perceptions and approaches of local governments toward disaster risk reduction (DRR).
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  Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change in Caribbean small island developing states: integrating local and external knowledge

  Many Strong Voices, 2012

  Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) are vulnerable to climate change impacts including sea level rise, invasive species, ocean acidification, changes in rainfall patterns, increased temperatures and changing hazard regimes.
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  Many Strong Voices (MSV)

  Many Strong Voices (MSV) was established in Montreal, Canada, in December 2005 to raise awareness on the effects of climate change in the Arctic and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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  International institutions and new sustainable development goals beyond 2015: climate change, poor and vulnerable countries

  Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, 2012

  This paper argues that post-Rio+20 changes to international institutions and the new global sustainable development goals should give priority to climate change and poor and vulnerable countries. The paper emphasises challenges for poor and vulnerable countries in a world where advancing climate change is likely to pose an increasing threat to sustainable development and human security.
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  Integration of climate adaptation into development and conservation planning in Bhutan

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

  This publication highlights the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform’s (AKP) work in Bhutan towards building bridges between existing knowledge on climate change adaptation and the governments, agencies and communities that need this knowledge to inform their efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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  Counting on uncertainty: the economic case for community based adaptation in North-East Kenya

  New Economics Foundation, 2012

  Climate change impacts are expected to significantly erode part of societies’ economic, social and environmental capitals; yet is investing in community-based adaptation economically efficient and effective – holding all else equal?
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  Linking adaptation and mitigation through community forestry: case studies from Asia

  The Centre for People and Forests, 2012

  Forests play a key role in climate change mitigation and adaptation and there are potential synergies between REDD+ and the ability of populations to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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