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  Bridge over troubled waters: linking climate change and development

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This document, the executive summary of a book of the same title, synthesises an OECD project on the opportunities and trade-offs faced in mainstreaming responses to climate change in development planning and assistance.
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  Can we still avoid dangerous human-made climate change?

  International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, 2006

  This presentation, given at New School University, New York City, documents climate change and growth in greenhouse gas emissions over time and argues:the evidence shows that the level of additional global warming that would put us into dangerous territory is about 1°C, not 2 or 3°Cit is technically possible to avoid climate change, to follow an alternative scenario in which growth of
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  CDM country guides

  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2006

  Many developing countries are faced with a lack of consolidated information on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and this information has never been put together before in a comprehensive form.
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  Beyond firewood: fuel alternatives and protection strategies for displaced women and girls

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2006

  This document presents the findings of desk reviews looking into fuel provision, collection and physical protection strategies in various IDP and refugee situations worldwide and conducted site visits in Darfur, Sudan and in the Bhutanese refugee camps in eastern Nepal.The paper assesses alternative fuel options, firewood collection techniques and other protection strategies, appropriate to the
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  Time to tackle Asia’s electrical waste mountain

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  As the market for electrical and electronic products grows rapidly, the lifespan of products is dropping. Some developed world governments are promoting recycling and starting to require that manufacturers safely dispose products at the end of their working life.
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  Natural disaster and disaster risk reduction measures

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report presents a high-level, desk-based assessment of the economic costs of disasters, and of the costs and benefits of various approaches to managing the risks of natural disasters, normally known as Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
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  Funding for adaptation to climate change: UNFCCC and GEF developments since COP-7

  Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, 2005

  Which financial mechanisms are available to developing countries for implementing climate change adaptation projects?
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  Reducing the risk of disasters: helping to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in a vulnerable world

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This paper summarises the British Department for International Development's (DFID's) policy on disaster risk reduction as it applies to natural and technological disasters. It sets out the key elements of disaster risk reduction and why it is important. The paper’s aim is to provide guidance to DFID staff.
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  Options for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol

  German Federal Environmental Agency, 2005

  This paper outlines a strategy for Germany and the EU in the second stage of climate change negotiations and assesses available options for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.It includes analysis of the interests of countries and selected country case studies and a comparison of emission allowances under various approaches put forward alongside options for adaptation to climate
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  Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration.

  Wiley InterScience, 2006

  The authors state that reduction of weather related losses, achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and implementing successful responses to climate change can only be accomplished if they are undertaken in an integrated manner.

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