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  Food system scenarios: exploring global/local linkages

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2005

  The first generation of climate impact assessments were led by scenarios of climate change predicted over time. In recent years, the indeterminate nature of complex systems, such as interactions between environment and human behaviour, has been increasingly recognised.
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  Look before you leap: a risk management approach for incorporating climate change adaptation into World Bank operations

  Climate Change, World Bank, 2004

  There is limited experience in factoring impacts of climate change and adaptation into development and poverty reduction strategies. This paper examines the approaches and methods in mainstreaming adaptation activities into development activities, and proposes suggestions for the next phases of implementation.
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  Governing climate: the struggle for a global framework beyond Kyoto

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2005

  How can we further develop international regimes to prevent climate change? This publications asks this question in the context of a post-Kyoto plan, considering that the importance of Kyoto over the long term is not its specific targets or number of parties to the agreement, but rather that it has set the stage for ongoing international discussions on the issue.
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  Asian perspectives on climate regime beyond 2012: concerns, interests and priorities

  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2005

  This publication details a series of stakeholder consultations focussing on the post-Kyoto climate regime in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Viet Nam, as well as the broader Asia-Pacific Region. The aim of these surveys was to ascertain the concerns and priorities of various countries in relation to a future climate regime.
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  Climate debt: making historical responsibility part of the solution

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This publication from Friends of the Earth argues that with regard to climate change, historical responsibility for emissions means that compensation based on climate debt should be added to a rights-based approach for determining fair shares of environment space.
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  Shifting strategies in the global climate negotiations

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2005

  This document focuses on four pivotal actors, which also are the four largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world: the United States, China, the European Union, and Russia.
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  Deploying climate-friendly technologies through collaboration with developing countries

  International Energy Agency, 2005

  Many, if not all, OECD countries are implementing long-term domestic programmes to develop future climate-friendly technologies.In most cases, however, technology deployment efforts are only carried out at the national level.
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  Baseline methodologies for Clean Development Mechanism projects

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2005

  Building capacities in the baseline methodology and assessment of greenhouse gas reductions and sequestration benefits of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects are keys to the successful implementation of the CDM. This guidebook is aimed at addressing these important issues and to assist project developers in establishing baselines for CDM projects following important guidelines.
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  Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions

  SciDev.Net, 2005

  Around one-sixth of the world’s population is dependant on glaciers and seasonal snow packs for their water supply. But climate change is disrupting the annual flow of water downstream from snowy mountainous regions, says this paper.
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  Pushing the agenda for climate change in East Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Climate change is one of the most serious development challenges facing humanity. Many of Africa’s poorest countries, which have contributed least to global warming, are amongst the most vulnerable to climate change. While industrialised countries dedicate resources to protect themselves, the impacts of climate change in Africa continue to be ignored.

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