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  Assessing the ecological footprint

  Environmental Assessment Institute / Institut for Miljøvurdering, Denmark, 2002

  This report sets out to assess the scientific validity of what it calls the WWF's 'doomsday prophecy', as outlined in the NGO's Living Planet Report 2002.
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  Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands

  Essex University, 2001

  This paper explores the opportunities for mitigating atmospheric carbon emissions and generating development income in developing countries through a combination of sustainable agricultural practices on existing lands, slowing tropical deforestation, and reforesting degraded lands.The analysis shows that over the next ten years, forty-eight major tropical and subtropical developing countries ha
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  Pacific Island Developing Country Water Resources and Climate Change

  Pacific Institute, 2000

  In the context of global climate change, the author considers possible environmental outcomes for generally Pacific Island Developing States (PIDCs)The paper sets out to:provide a brief overview of PIDCS, outline present assessments of climate trends, both globally and regionally, that may have an impact on PIDCSassess some of the potential ecosystem impacts of climate change on
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  Climate change and agricultural vulnerability

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2002

  The report looks at the ecological and economic impacts on agriculture, and particularly the food systems, of the climate change projections of four general circulation models (GCMs), for a range of socio-economic future development pathsIt offers an ecological-economic assessment of the impacts of climate change on agriculture across all countries and regions of the world.
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  Forest biological diversity: recommendations to the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP6)

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  IUCN document which calls on the Conference of Parties (COP) to move from a research orientated work programme on forest biological diversity towards a more action orientated programme.
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  Tropical Forests and Climate Change

  Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001

  This CFAN Forestry Issues paper gives an overview of global climate change, its causes, its impact on forests, and how forests can help to mitigate it.It concludes that forest-related interventions can have numerous positive spinoff effects apart from carbon sequestration and storage including:improved supply of wood products better management of protected areas increased agricu
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  Responding to climate change: on the ground in Honduras

  Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001

  Report on project in Honduras aimed at assessing the potential for carbon sequestration through both establishing new plantations and conservation of existing forests.
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  Impacts of climate change on forests

  Indonesian Development Studies, 1998

  The impact of climate change on global forests in their entirety would in all likelihood be modest. However, its impact on individual forests could be substantial as they adapted to new climate conditions. New forests might rise up in the tundra. Others might wane in places where moisture levels declined.
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  Climate, biodiversity and forests

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998

  Highlighting the contention that climate change itself is a major threat to biodiversity this report argues that protecting biological diversity may, in fact, help mitigate other impacts of climate change.
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  Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002

  Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.

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