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Climate change and human rights: a rough guide
International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva, 2008This report discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it.DocumentGetting to zero: defining corporate carbon neutrality
Forum for the future, 2008As concerns about climate change grow, the concept of “carbon neutrality” has captured the corporate imagination and is being embraced by organisations as diverse as airlines, ice-cream makers and reinsurance giants.DocumentThe Clean Development Mechanism: an assessment of current practice and future approaches for policy
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2007This paper provides an analysis of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) highlighting current practices and future directions that need to be at taken to strengthen policy.DocumentEnergy development and climate change: decarbonising growth in South Africa
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2007Not only does South Africa have an extremely energy-intensive economy based primarily on coal, leading to relatively high emissions, but it simultaneously faces a host of daunting development challenges, exacerbated by the legacy of apartheid.DocumentGender and climate change: mapping the linkages. A scoping study on knowledge and gaps
BRIDGE, 2008While there is a wealth of literature on gender-based issues related to environment and disasters, there are few explicit references to gender and climate change. This paper outlines key linkages between climate change and gender inequality, focusing particularly on adaptation and mitigation policies and practices.DocumentA study on gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development: what we know about the extent to which women globally live in a more sustainable way than men, leave a smaller ecological footprint and cause less climate change
Gender and Environment /Genero y ambiente, 2007To what extent do women live more sustainably than men, leave a smaller ecological footprint and cause less climate change? This ideas paper studies what we know about gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development.DocumentImpact of climate change mitigation measures on indigenous peoples and on their territories and lands
The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2008In this paper, the authors summarise the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples, review mitigation and adaptation measures, and analyse the impacts of these measures on indigenous peoples. This paper includes case studies of mitigation measures under the Kyoto Protocol and other voluntary measures that are affecting indigenous peoples adversely.DocumentMitigating the impact of climate change and land degradation through IFAD’s COSOP in Viet Nam.
Global Mechanism, 2008This report analyses the impact of climate change and land degradation on agriculture and related sectors in Viet Nam.DocumentBad deal for the planet. Why carbon offsets aren't working. . . and how to create a fair global climate accord
International Rivers Network, 2008To what extent has the Kyoto’s carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, been successful in promoting sustainable development?DocumentComparison of carbon offset standards for climate forestation projects participating in the voluntary carbon market
Carbon Positive, 2008Globally, forests play a vital role in stabilising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases while simultaneously contributing to sustainable development. This report compares different standards of Climate Forestation Projects, i.e. projects that convert non-forest land into forest land in order to mitigate climate change and contribute to sustainable development.Pages