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100 to 1: EFIC’s gamble with climate
AID/WATCH, 2007This report explores the ways in which Australia’s Export Finance Insurance Corporation (EFIC) may be undermining efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It argues that, through its export credit agency (ECA), the Australian Government facilitates and encourages the development of many highly polluting projects in developing countries.DocumentEmpirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: an application to Kenya’s arid north
Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2006This paper sets out to develop an empirical forecasting model that can predict, with reasonable accuracy, the expected welfare impact of impending drought. This work is based on a set of regularly measured variables from communities in Kenya’s Arid North.DocumentUnjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities
ActionAid International, 2007Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.DocumentBiofuel production and the threat to South Africa's food security
Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007As biofuel production continues to expand rapidly all over the world, there is increasing concern about how this will affect food prices, particularly of foodcrops used to produce biofuels.DocumentAdaptation to climate change by small-scale Rooibos tea farmers in Wupperthal and the Suid Bokkeveld areas of the Western and Northern Cape
South South North, 2006The project aims to support small-scale farmers in the project area in their efforts to adapt their farming practices to anticipated climate change and to enhance their incomes.DocumentBuilding community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability
South South North, 2006The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific objectives of the project are:DocumentMaking voluntary carbon markets work better for the poor: the case of forestry offsets
Overseas Development Institute, 2006This paper discusses concerns about forest-based mitigation projects and their benefit to the small producer and the host country. It assesses the two different kinds of carbon market mechanisms: the clean development mechanism (CDM) developed under the Kyoto Protocol; and the ‘voluntary’ mechanisms, developed separately and not bound by the CDM regulations.DocumentTwelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN framework convention on climate change and second meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2006This paper documents the key outcomes of the two-week United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi, November 2006. The aim of the conference was to consider the next steps in the international climate effort.DocumentPortfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change in development assistance
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2007Over six development agencies are screening their portfolios with the aim of ascertaining the extent to which exisiting development projects already consider climate risks or address vulnerability to climate variability; and identifying opportunities for incorporating climate change explicitly into future projects.This paper assesses this screening process in order to dentify opportunites for d