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  Development needs environmental protection: recommendations for the Millennium + 5 Summit

  German Advisory Council on Global Change, 2005

  The Millennium + 5 Summit in 2005 will review progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and take stock of the United Nations' capacity to act. This document argues that the Summit offers the opportunity to set a new course in international poverty reduction and initiate a reform of the UN.
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  The political economy of climate change

  International Policy Network, 2003

  In Europe, climate control through the Kyoto Protocol has been accepted at face value as the appropriate solution to global warming.
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  Climate change and competitiveness: a survey of the issues

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2005

  From the outset, the Kyoto Protocol and the UNFCCC have had to contend with perceived tension between effective action to slow climate change, and maintenance of competitiveness.
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  Going local on a global scale: rethinking food trade in the era of climate change, dumping, and rural poverty

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2005

  This brief discusses how producing and marketing more food locally can help alleviate both global climate change and rural poverty.
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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.
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  Methodologies for assessing natural hazard risks and the net benefits of mitigation

  ProVention Consortium, 2005

  This study aims to facilitate the development of tools to analyse and measure the costs of disaster mitigation and related guidelines by exploring how cost-benefit analysis, environmental impact assessment and related methodologies as well as evaluation tools can be expanded to consider risks emanating from natural hazards and to measure related costs and benefits in reducing risk.This report p
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  Tropical forestry and carbon sequestration

  Tropbio Group, 2001

  This paper examines strategies for carbon sequestration, and how this is provided for under the Kyoto Protocol, with particularly attention to Malaysia's carbon sequestration strategies. Carbon sequestration is a significant technique that plays a major role in bringing down global warming.
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  The global climate and economic development

  Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2005

  Using examples of climate change and its effects on developing countries this workshop report considers the tension between the need for economic growth in the developing world and the concern over increasing greenhouse gas emissions and attempts to formalise the link between poverty and environmental degradation.
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  Environment and peace: steady progress since 1972

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  Environmental degradation and the exploitation of natural resources are recognized as important drivers of violence between and within states, contributing to poverty and state failure.This paper charts evolving understanding of the complex relationship between environmental change and security, a debate that has developed considerably since the UN Conference on the Human Environment, held in S
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  Food crops in a changing climate: report of a Royal Society discussion meeting

  Royal Society, 2005

  This, the summary report of a Royal Society discussion meeting on food crops in a changing climate, outlines new research that demonstrates that the impact of climate change on crop yields and quality will be more severe than previously thought.

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