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20th International Annual Conference of Climate Alliance. St.Gallen, Switzerland, 23-26 May 2012
Posted on: 20 June 2012
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This event considered measures and projects for climate protection at the local level. Presentations are available online.
Weathering uncertainty traditional knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation
Posted on: 15 June 2012
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Published by the UN University (UNU) Traditional Knowledge Initiative and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), this book draws attention to a rapidly-growing scientific literature on the contribution of indigenous and traditional knowledge to understanding climate change vulnerability, resilience and adaptation. It aims at strengthening consideration of indigenous knowledge in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be released in 2014. In its Fourth Assessment Report, IPCC recognized traditional knowledge as “an invaluable basis for developing adaptation and natural resource management strategies in response to environmental and other forms of change.” Despite this recognition, indigenous knowledge has remained largely outside the scope of IPCC assessments.
URBAN-NEXUS
Posted on: 14 June 2012
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The URBAN-NEXUS Consortium comprises of 13 core partners, supported by 25 Strategic Partners throughout Europe. This coordination and support action builds on the work of the FP6 project URBAN-NET, which formulated the themes that URBAN-NEXUS is now working on. URBAN-NEXUS will develop a Strategic Dialogue & Partnership Framework to organise a long-term collaboration with stakeholders in relation to the key dimensions of sustainable urban development: Urban climate resilience; Health and quality of life; Integrated urban management; Integrated data and information; Competing for urban land.
Four degrees of preparation: Greater Manchester plans for adaptation
Posted on: 13 June 2012
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This website houses the reports, presentations and papers which are the outcome of the EcoCities research programme to date. Research is organised into five themes: Climate change recent trends and future projections; Impacts of weather and climate; Vulnerability to climate change impacts; Adaptation responses; Scenarios and future perspectives. At each theme page, you will find an overview and the research outputs related to that theme. Related resources from outside of the programme which may be of use are also included. Each section also makes available a link to the GRaBS spatial mapping tool, back issues of the EcoCities Blueprint newsletter and associated media coverage.
Southern voices on climate policy choices
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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This report provides an analysis of the tools and tactics advocacy groups use to influence policy responses to climate change at international, regional, national and sub-national levels. More than 20 climate networks and their member organisations have contributed to the report with their experiences of advocacy on climate change, including over 70 case studies from a wide range of countries – including many of the poorest – in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific.
Building climate change adaptation on community experiences: lessons from community-based natural resource management in southern Africa
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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This publication, produced in collaboration with WWF Southern Africa, looks at how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) can inform and contribute to climate change adaptation at the community level, specifically to community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change. It provides a framework for analysing the two approaches at conceptual and practical levels.
Acting today for tomorrow: a policy and practice note for climate and disaster resilient development in the pacific islands region
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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This policy and practice note presents some analysis and recommendations meant to inform disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) planning across a range of institutions at all levels. It grows out of extensive consultations with countries, regional organizations, and donors and other development partners, and it is addressed primarily to high-level policymakers and decision makers within them.
Measurement for management: CDP Cities 2012 Global Report
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has issued a report which contains analysis by technical and management support services firm AECOM, presenting a global snapshot of the activities, challenges and opportunities facing cities as a result of climate change. It is based on the carbon and water strategies and actions disclosed to CDP by 73 cities spanning every inhabited continent. The report also contains a special focus on the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), a network of the world’s largest cities working to reduce urban carbon emissions and accelerate climate change adaptation.
Adaptation futures: 2012 International Conference on Climate Adaptation. Tucson, Arizona, 29-31 May 2012
Posted on: 31 May 2012
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Co-hosted and convened by the University of Arizona, and by UNEP’s Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA), the conference focused on adaptation to climate variability and change. The conference brought together researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from developed and developing countries to share insights into the challenges and opportunities that adaptation presents. It provided a showcase for cutting-edge research from around the world, focusing on themes of equity and risk, learning, capacity building, methodology, adaptation finance and investment, and ecosystem based adaptation approaches. Abstracts are available online.
Separated at birth, reunited in Rio? A roadmap to bring environment and development back together
Posted on: 30 May 2012
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This paper from the Overseas Development Institute argues that despite significant overlaps between climate change and development they are rarely linked through policy. It also sets out to explain why reconciling the two agendas has been so difficult at a practical level, and suggests how Rio+20 could start to bridge the gaps between the two.
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