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    Agriculture and climate change: real problems, false solutions

    EcoNexus, 2009
    Agriculture plays an important role in climate change, both as a contributor emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and as a potential reducer of negative impacts. This paper gives an overview of how current and proposed agricultural practices affect climate change and how the proposed measures for mitigation and adaptation impact agriculture.
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    United Nations Foundation (UNF)

    The UN Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities.
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    Wireless technology for social change: trends in NGO mobile use

    United Nations Foundation, 2008
    This report, published by the UN Foundation, examines real life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. Largely using case studies, the authors find that NGOs’ use of mobile technology is very widespread and indispensable.
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    The vulnerability of energy infrastructure to environmental change

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2009
    Energy generation, extraction, refining, processing and distribution require a multifaceted global infrastructure. However, much of that infrastructure lies in areas that may become increasingly physically unstable owing to changes in the environment. Of particular concern are disruptions caused or exacerbated by climate change.
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Rising temperatures, rising tension: climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2009
    Climate models are predicting a hotter, drier and less predictable climate in the Middle East, a region already considered the world's most water-scarce and where, in many places, demand for water already outstrips supply. This report addresses the links between climate change, peace and conflict.
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    Rights-based approaches: exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
    The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can undermine those same rights of affected communities and can undermine conservation objectives.
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    Migration, climate change and the environment

    International Organization for Migration, 2009
    Environmental factors have long had an impact on global migration flows. Although there is limited reliable data on the subject, the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected to rise significantly over the next decades as a result of climate change.
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    Review of the Embassy’s development assistance portfolio: environment and climate change “greening and climate proofing of the portfolio”

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This paper tries to identify possible ways and means of addressing appropriate climate change and environmental concerns in existing Norwegian programmes and projects in Uganda. For Norway, the priority areas are:
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    Climate change and indigenous peoples

    Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2008
    This manual has been written to empower indigenous peoples to participate more effectively in shaping relevant policies and actions taken to address issues related to climate change. It also aims to enlighten non-indigenous peoples on indigenous peoples’ experiences and perspectives on climate change.

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