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Climate silence (and how to break it)
Posted on: 5 December 2013
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This report describes the blanket of silence that has descended on the issue of climate change in the UK in the past five years. The report argues the debate urgently needs new narratives that make the link between the climate challenge and ordinary people’s lives.
Urban climate resilience: A review of the methodologies adopted under the ACCCRN initiative in Indian cities
Posted on: 5 December 2013
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Cities across the world have started recognising the need to address urban climate vulnerabilities. In Asia, the role of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), a nine-year initiative (2008-2017) supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, has been significant. Over the years, ACCCRN has worked in ten cities in four Asian countries (India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam) on developing and demonstrating effective processes and practices for addressing urban climate vulnerabilities. This Working Paper aims to document and analyse the several methodologies adopted in the seven Indian ACCCRN cities: Surat, Indore, Gorakhpur, Shimla, Bhubaneswar, Mysore, Guwahati. The paper analyses these methodologies and the overall process adopted in each of these cities for its potential for replication in other cities in India, and brings out the inherent challenges, gaps and opportunities in achieving this.
The Emissions Gap Report 2013
Posted on: 5 December 2013
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Immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is key to limit the risk that global temperature rise will exceed 2° C, according to this report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The report shows that delaying near-term actions to narrow the greenhouse gas emissions gap by 2020 considerably decreases the chances of keeping global temperature rise below 2°C and exacerbates mitigation challenges after 2020.
Managing the land in a changing climate
Posted on: 5 December 2013
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This progress report from the Committee on Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Committee reviews some of the key ecosystem services provided by the land. Specifically, the report addresses the use of land to continue to deliver important goods and services in the face of a changing climate, supplying food and timber, providing habitat for wildlife, storing carbon in the soil, and coping with sea level rise on the coast. It explores the extent to which decisions about the land are helping the country to prepare for climate change.
Climate Adaptation Outlook: A proposed National Adaptation Assessment Network
Posted on: 5 December 2013
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This report is the first of a structured series of reports on how well placed Australia, including its businesses, communities and institutions, is to manage the impacts of unavoidable climate change. This report proposes a national assessment framework to assess progress in adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Assessing and managing climate change risks in supply chains
Posted on: 3 December 2013
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As supply chains become increasingly complex and demand for time-sensitive goods and services continues to increase supply chains are becoming more vulnerable to disruption from the impacts of climate change. In light of this the Environment Agency’s ‘Climate Ready Support Service’ has developed a five step framework to help businesses understand and manage the risks that severe weather and our changing climate present to the increasingly complex supply chains of UK companies.
The climate change-sustainable development nexus: A proposal for convergence
Posted on: 29 November 2013
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This thesis is founded on the proposition that climate change and sustainable development are inextricably linked with each other and form a “nexus” that should be understood in a pragmatic and holistic way. Accordingly, the climate change “problem” cannot be adequately addressed in “silos” or by traditional output control techniques but instead should be viewed as a multidimensional challenge that calls for transformative change in the world energy sector in light of the wider contexts of sustainability and social equity. This thesis observes that with the emergence of a post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations, the world is at or is fast approaching an inflection point in global development. While efforts to improve the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process are laudable, this thesis argues for a transformative approach to converge international collective action on climate change with the broader frameworks of global sustainable development processes. This thesis makes a proposal for the convergence and integration of the UNFCCC and sustainable development work streams, and suggests that China consider taking a leadership role under the broad aspirational goal of building “eco-civilization”.
Transport readiness for climate finance: A framework to access climate finance in the transport sector
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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This paper aims to highlight the existing funds and opportunities, to provide a clear understanding on how to have access to these climate finance flows, and to catalogue what is needed in terms of performance tracking.
Typhoon Haiyan, Warsaw climate change negotiations, budgeting in the real world
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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This podcast involves a discussion on what Typhoon Haiyan reveals about climate change, disaster preparedness and emergency response, assesses the outcome of the UN climate change talks in Warsaw, and examines budgeting in the real world.
Local Climate Solutions for Africa Congress 2013. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 30 October – 1 November 2013
Posted on: 27 November 2013
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This event provided an opportunity to share global good practice and locally appropriate solutions and technologies towards accelerated climate action on the ground. A report and presentations are available online.
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