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Warm words: how are we telling the climate story and can we tell it better?
Institute for Public Policy Research, 2006This report examines what impact media coverage and communication on climate change has on the public’s behaviour.DocumentNatural disaster hotspots: a global risk analysis
Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 2005This synthesis report summarises the findings of the Global Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots project’s global disaster risk assessment, as well as drawing on a set of more localised or hazard-specific case studies.The report assesses the global risks of mortality and economic losses for six major natural hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, drought, and cyclones.Risk levels areDocumentSeeing the light: adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change.DocumentThe urgent need to increase adaptative capacities: evidence from Kenyan drylands
African Centre for Technology Studies, 2006This policy brief focuses on the development implications of findings from a three year research project to understand how conflict affects different people’s ability to adapt to climate constraints. Fieldwork for the study was carried out in two dryland areas of Kenya, Kitui and Turkana.The research found that people’s adaptive capacity to climate stress in the region is deteriorating.DocumentIPCC fourth assessment report: the physical science basis. Summary for Policymakers
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007Volume one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report describes the latest collective understanding of the drivers of climate change and climate processes. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new findings from the past six years of research.DocumentThe challenge of adapting to climate change in developing countries
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Climate change poses a huge threat to humans, particularly in developing countries. Until recently, however, donors and governments have done little to prepare for the impacts. A recent report highlights the progress and challenges in enabling development to adapt to a changing climate.DocumentAdaptation of forest ecosystems and the forest sector to climate change
Intercooperation, 2005This report discusses climate change adaptation strategies with an emphasis on forest ecosystems. The paper argues that adaptation measures must be part of a country’s development process, and that every adaptation action should be framed within the national development policies.DocumentClimate risk management in Africa: learning from practice
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, 2007What implications does climate change have for sustainable development, and lifting African people out of poverty? This report and associated policy briefing highlights the urgent need to integrate climate information and knowledge into broader development efforts.A number of country case studies illustrate, among others,:DocumentNo energy security without climate security
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006This brief prepared by the WWF for the 2006 G8 meeting in St. Petersburg argues that energy security is interlinked with climate change.DocumentSmoke, mirrors & hot air: how ExxonMobil uses big tobacco’s tactics to manufacture uncertainty on climate science
Union of Concerned Scientists, 2007This report documents ExxonMobil’s role in the current disinformation campaign about climate science.Pages