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10 messages for 2010 Urban ecosystems
High quality urgan green spaces are essential not only for quality of life for urban dwellers, but for the maintenance of biodiverse ecosystems as well. Urban planners and policy makers must integrate biodiversity into urban planning and building of sustainable communities by designating conservation areas. It is essential at the regional and lo ...
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Birgit Georgi
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
2009 Investor Statement on the Urgent Need for a Global Agreement on Climate Change
The times when the private sector was against determined action on climate change are over.
181 leading investors and financial institutions responsible for the
fiduciary management of US $13 Trillion – the backbone of the global
economic system - unveiled a Statement on the Urgent Need for a Global Agreement on Climate Change on Sept 16, ...
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Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, Investor Network on Climate Risk, Investors Group on Finance Change
New York: UNited Nations Environment Program -- Finance Initiative, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A Changing Climate for Business Third Edition
This is the third edition of a business publication from the UK Climate Impacts Programme. This set of publications serves as an introduction to climate change impacts and adaptation for a general business audience. In addition to the inclusion of information from the new UK Climate Projections, updates also include making the business case for ...
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Gerry Metcalf, Kay Jenkinson and Kay Johnstone
UK Climate Impacts Programme, Oxford, UK, June 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Framework for Social Adaptation to Climate Change: Sustaining Tropical Coastal Communitites and In...
Although this report primarily documents the effects of climate change to coastal areas in third world countries, it's findings and recommendations may be useful to managers of coastal areas in developed countries as well.
From the Introduction:
"In this publication we describe how managers, communities and (Adger 2006; Dessai and Hu ...
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N.A. Marshall, P.A. Marshall, J. Tamelander, D. Obura, D. Malleret-King and J.E. Cinner
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland, June 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Adaptation to Climate Change in Marine Capture Fisheries
This paper discusses fishery management strategies for adapting to climate change.
Abstract:
"This paper responds to the challenge of how and when to adapt marine capture fisheries to climate change by: (1) providing a set of fisheries policy options to climate change; (2) developing a risk and vulnerability assessment and m ...
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R. Quentin Grafton
Environmental Economics Research Hub Research Reports, Canberra: November 5 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and OceaniaFor Specialized Analysts
Adaptation to Climate Change: Do Not Count on Climate Scientists to Do Your Work
"Many decisions concerning long-lived investments need to take into account climate change. But doing so is not easy for at least two reasons. First, due to the rate of climate change, new infrastructure will have to be able to cope with a large range of changing climate conditions, which will make design more difficult and construction more expens ...
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Hallegatte, Stéphane
Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute - Brookings Institution Reg-Markets Center. Related Publication 08-01: February 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor Nations
Adaptation, Mitigation and "Green" R&D to Combat Global Climate Change: Insights From an Empirical I...
This paper uses macro-economic analysis to model the relationship between adaptation, mitigation, and R&D policies.Abstract:"This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatem ...
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Francesco Bosello
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Venice, Italy: 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
Adapting to Climate Change Survey: A Special Report
"Overall, there is a high level of engagement in planning for
adaptation (62%). The sector breakdown of members’ organisations planning for
adaptation is: construction 64%; manufacturing 64%; electricity, gas and water
supply (76%); transport, storage and communication (65%) and local government
(90%). This level of engagement is signific ...
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Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, UK, December 2009
Objectives: Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach
After briefly summarizing the expected physical impacts of climate change, this paper provides a framework that businesses can use to determine their susceptibility to adverse financial effects. It considers upstream (supplier) and downstream (consumer) factors, and not only the internal operations of the firm. Three case studies of firms that pe ...
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Frances G. Sussman and J. Randall Freed
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
Adapting to Climate Change: Analysing the Role of Government
This report discusses how barriers such as "market failures, behavioral failures, adaptive capacity, and natural capacity" affect adaptation decisions and policies. It goes on to state that the Government’s role should be one that supports people and businesses as they deal with these barriers, and then identifies the priorities for future reseach ...
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Federica Cimato and Michael Mullan
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London, UK, January 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Adapting to climate change: How building stronger communities can save lives, create jobs, and build...
In both the US and developing countries, poor communities are particularly vulnerable
to the impacts of climate change. A key determinant of whether or not a community can cope with climate change is its access to and control over resources—natural, human, social, physical, financial, and political.
Poor communities are particularly vulnerabl ...
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Oxfam America
Oxfam America, Boston, MA, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Advance Guard: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation and Indigenous Peoples
From the Executive Summary: "This compendium presents a wide-ranging overview of more than 400 projects, case studies and research activities specifically related to climate change and Indigenous Peoples. It provides a sketch of the climate and environmental changes, local observations and impacts being felt by communities in different regions, ...
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Galloway McLean, Kirsty
United Nations University – Traditional Knowledge Initiative, Darwin, Australia. December 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
An Inventory of Adaptation to Climate Change in the UK: Challenges and Findings
From the Abstract: "Climate change science has been promoting adaptation measures for some years. The message has been that the climate is changing and people need to be prepared. However, while there has been an increasing investment in the ‘science of adaptation’, there has been less, if any, attention paid to the ‘practice of adaptation’, i.e ...
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E.L. Tompkins, E. Boyd, S.A. Nicholson-Cole, K.Weatherhead, N.W Arnell, W.N. Adger
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich, UK, July 2009
Objectives: Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Are We Ready? Preparing for the Public Health Challenges of Climate Change
In the United States, illness and deaths related to heatwaves, floods, air pollution, and food- and waterborne infections may increase in certain locations. Because local public health departments are the "first line of defense" in our public health system, it is critical that the public health community has both the expertise and the resources to ...
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John Balbus, Kristie Ebi, Lauren Finzer, Catherine Malina, Amy Chadwick, Dennis McBride, Michelle Chuk, Ed Maibach
Environmental Defense Fund, Center of Excellence in Climate Change Communication Research, George Mason University: 2008
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
“A Reindeer Herder's Perspective on Caribou, Weather and Socio-economic Change on the Seward Penin...
"Non-climate variables shape vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change. Here, we describe how recent environmental and socio-economic developments have transformed reindeer herding and perceptions of weather on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. The reindeer industry has shrunk considerably since the early 1990s, when the winter range of t ...
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Kumi Rattenbury, Knut Kielland, Greg Finstad, William Schneider
Polar Research Volume 28 Issue 1 (April 2009) Special Issue: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
“Flexible Mechanisms in Support of a New Climate Change Regime: The Clean Development Mechanism an...
"This report is based on discussions in the CEPS Task Force on the Clean
Development Mechanism and Future Flexible Mechanisms post-2012, chaired
by Ulrika Raab, Senior Advisor at the Swedish Energy Agency. It was
assumed that flexible mechanisms will play a crucial role in
facilitating a positive outcome in the UN climate change negotiations
i ...
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Noriko Fujiwara
Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium, December 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
“Foreword to the Special Issue: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic”
"The Arctic climate is changing, carrying wide-ranging implications for indigenous and non-indigenous inhabitants, businesses, industry and government across the circumpolar region. The latest scientific assessments indicate that change is happening faster than previously thought, and that the Arctic will continue to experience dramatic climate cha ...
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James D. Ford, Chris Furgal
Polar Research Volume 28 Issue 1 (April 2009) Special Issue: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
“Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate-related Fire Impacts in Rural and Urban Interior Alaska”
"This paper explores whether fundamental differences exist between urban and rural vulnerability to climate-induced changes in the fire regime of interior Alaska. We further examine how communities and fire managers have responded to these changes and what additional adaptations could be put in place. We engage a variety of social science methods ...
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Sarah F. Trainor, Monika Calef, David Natcher, F. Stuart Chapin III, A. David McGuire, Orville Huntington, Paul Duffy, T. Scott Rupp, La'Ona DeWilde, Mary Kwart, Nancy Fresco, Amy Lauren Lovecraft
Polar Research Volume 28 Issue 1 (April 2009) Special Issue: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Beyond Aid: Ensuring Adaptation to Climate Change Works for the Poor
Climate change is already impacting people's lives, can span generations and is undermining the progress made between rich and poor countries to end poverty and suffering at the UN Milleniium Summit in 2000.
To compound matters, climate change and risk will continue to increase for some time – even if global emissions were to cease immedi ...
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Catherine Pettengell, Anju Sharma and Robert Bailey
Osfam International, September 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Biodiversity and Climate Change Laws: A Failure to Communicate?
From the Abstract: "Climate change driven by global warming is substantially modifying important ecosystems and threatens to destroy great swaths of biodiversity. At both the international and state levels, two separate sets of laws exist – one addresses biodiversity and endangered species (e.g., the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity, and ...
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David Hodas
Social Science Research Network, 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Specialized Analysts
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