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  Surviving climate change in small islands: a guidebook

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2005

  Climate change is an environmental hazard that affects all countries, although it poses special risks and challenges for small islands. This practical manual specifically addresses what small island countries should do in order to develop adaptation strategies to changing weather patterns.
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  Climate change futures: health, ecological and economic dimensions

  Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, 2005

  This paper documents a multi-dimensional assessment of climate change, with a particular focus on human health aspects alongside the ecological and economic impacts.
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  Assessing policy choices for managing SO2 emissions from Indian power sector

  Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, 2005

  As India moves on the path of economic development, the use of energy resources is bound to increase, thereby increasing air pollution. Especially, the consumption of coal in industries makes them significant contributors to local and Green House Gases (GHG) pollutants. This has led to a growing concern about the use of coal as a major fuel in industries.
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  Adapting to climate change: developing countries and the global response

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  There is a growing realisation that developing countries will be most severely affected by climate change through flooding, drought, and impacts on key sectors such as agriculture and water resource management. The response to climate change must therefore be ‘mainstreamed’, by incorporating adaptation strategies into development action and policy at local, national and global levels.
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  Power failure: how the World Bank is failing to adequately finance renewable energy for development

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  Last year, the World Bank committed to increasing its renewable energy financing by 20 percent each year for the next five years, and this year, the G8 has asked the Bank to "finance a framework for climate change." The World Bank Group itself has also emphasised the global leadership role it hopes to play in addressing climate change and financing for renewable energy.Friends of the Earth (FOE
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  Macroeconomic implications of natural disasters in the Caribbean

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2004

  This paper compares the incidence of natural disasters across countries along several dimensions and finds that the relative costs tend to be far higher in developing countries than in advanced economies.
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  Beyond climate: options for broadening climate policy

  Climate Action Network Europe, 2004

  Exploring ways to increase the policy coherence between the climate regime and a selected number of climate relevant policy areas this report assesses the potential synergies and trade-offs of linking the climate regime to other relevant policy areas, including poverty reduction, land-use, security of energy supply, trade and finance and air quality and health.The report looks into the possibil
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  Climate vulnerability in Cuba: the role of social networks

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of climate change adaptation in the context of social networks, and asks why some people are better able to cope than others. It examines recent economic and social developments in Cuba, and how these impact on vulnerability.
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  Climate change: information and suggestions [Bangladesh]

  WBB Trust – Work for a better Bangladesh, 2005

  This paper attempts to provide an understanding of the basic process of climate change, the way people are contributing to it and what they can do to reverse the process.The paper starts by giving a brief history about carbon and the greenhouse effect or global warming.
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  Continental divide: why Africa's climate change burden is greater

  Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005

  Although the African continent has contributed the least to global warming, its’ people are likely to be hardest hit by the impacts of climate change. Regions in Africa that already get a lot of rainfall will likely get more, and areas that get little will get even less.

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