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China and Australia unveil new policies on global warming

GOVERNMENTS that do not want to do anything about global warming often point to China, which will soon become the biggest source of the greenhouse gases that are heating up the planet. What point is there cutting back on our own emissions, the foot-draggers ask, if our efforts are obscured by a vast and growing cloud of pollution from China? (The Economist, 7 June 2007)

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9302917

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China says U.S. must do more on climate change

China is glad a climate change roadmap agreed last week in Bali has drawn the United States to the negotiating table, but the world's only superpower must do more to tackle global warming (Reuters, 20 December 2007).

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK172080.htm

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Christian World Service

CWS works with some of the poorest communities worldwide, regardless of race or religion. Inspired by our faith, they believe the provision and enjoyment of the basic necessities for living a decent, just and humane life is the will of God for all humankind. They support poor and marginalised communities in their own efforts to tackle poverty and build self-sufficiency and respond quickly to help people in need when disaster strikes. Standing with the poor, they campaign on the issues that cause poverty and injustice. CWS is committed to working for justice in Aotearoa New Zealand, in partnership with Maori, and honouring the Treaty of Waitangi.

http://www.cws.org.nz/

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Clean Energy and Development: Towards an Investment Framework

This 157 page report comes in response to a request made by the eight most industrialised nations at last year's G8 summit. It discusses the issues underlying the development of an Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development, and suggests a shift in policy in order to provide more funding to help developing countries generate power more cleanly and efficiently. To this end, the report asks the bank's development committee to approve new types of loans and grants, and proposes a venture capital fund to help develop 'clean energy' technologies and bring them to market. The proposals would help developing nations reduce their emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The report also discusses the need to help developing countries adapt to the effects of climate change. (Development Committee, World Bank, 5 April 2006)

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEVCOMMINT/Documentation/20890696/DC2006-0002(E)-CleanEnergy.pdf

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Climate a "Life and Death" Issue for Native Peoples

Leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples are calling for the United Nations to include their voices in its future talks on climate change. (By Haider Rizvi, IPS, 23 April 2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42103

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Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites

Climatic disasters are increasing as temperatures climb and rainfall intensifies. A rise in small- and medium-scale disasters is a particularly worrying trend. Yet even extreme weather need not bring disasters; it is poverty and powerlessness that make people vulnerable. (Oxfam, November 2007 )

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/downloads/bp108_weather_alert.pdf

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Climate and Health - WHO

A collection of reports from the World Health Organisation on climate change.

http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/

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Climate change 'an issue of human survival' for sinking island nation

Climate change is slowly submerging the Republic of Kiribati, the president of the small Pacific Ocean island nation told the United Nations' World Environment Day conference in New Zealand on Thursday. "We may already be at the point of no return, where the emissions in the atmosphere will carry on contributing to climate change, so in time our small low-lying islands will be submerged," Note Tong said. "According to the worst case scenarios, Kiribati will be submerged within (this) century." (USA Today,June 2008)

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/environment/2008-06-05-disappearing-new-zealand_N.htm

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Climate Change - the Costs of Inaction

This report demonstrates that the cost of allowing global temperatures to increase by two degrees or more above pre-industrial levels will run into trillions of dollars, while the environmental and social costs will be incalculable. The report, which brings together the latest scientific and economic thinking on climate change, highlights the enormous costs that would result if governments fail to act to keep temperature increases below two degrees. (Frank Ackerman and Liz Stanton, Friends of the Earth, 11 October 2006)

http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/Climate-CostsofInaction.pdf

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Climate Change 2001 (AR3): Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

The sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change, and the potential consequences of climate change, are assessed in the report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. This report builds upon the past assessment reports of the IPCC, reexamining key conclusions of the earlier assessments and incorporating results from more recent research. Download Summaries for Policymakers (SPM) and Technical Summaries (TS) in PDF.

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/index.htm

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Climate Change 2001 (AR3): The Scientific Basis

The Third Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) builds upon past assessments and incorporates new results from the past five years of research on climate change. Many hundreds of scientists from many countries participated in its preparation and review. Download Summaries for Policymakers (SPM) and Technical Summaries (TS) in PDF.

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/

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Climate Change and Adaptation

This paper examines research and policy developments to determine how a future regime could support a long-term, integrated approach to addressing adaptation to climate change by all countries. It was written by Jo-Ellen Parry, Anne Hammill and John Drexhage of the IISD under the recognition that adaptation to the impacts of climate change will need to be addressed in a more prominent manner in a post-2012 climate change regime, reflecting the growing scientific evidence that impacts are already affecting economic, socio-cultural and ecological systems.

http://www.iisd.org/climate/unfccc/loi.asp

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Climate Change and Children

This Unicef report examines the impact that climate change has upon children.

http://www.unicef.org.nz/Climate_Change_and_Children.pdf

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Climate Change and Development in Nepal

Tiempo - A bulletin on climate and development. Special issue on Nepal. Issue 60, July 2006. The impact of climate change on Nepal and options for adaptation. The use of electric vehicles in Nepal. The future of the Clean Development Mechanism Priorities for Nepal. A novel way of identifying, designing, implementing and monitoring community-based adaptation projects. The latest climate negotiations in Bonn. (IIED, August 2006)

http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/portal/archive/pdf/tiempo60low.pdf

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Climate Change and Human Health - Risks and Responses

By A.J. McMichael, D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, C.F. Corvalán, K.L. Ebi, A. Githeko, J.D. Scheraga and A. Woodward, 2003. This book, published by WHO in collaboration with UNEP and WMO, describes the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector. Order the book or download the summary online.

http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/cchhbook/en/

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Climate change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide

This report by the International Council on Human Rights 'discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it. It does not seek to reframe climate change as a "human rights issue" or to buttress the many existing grounds for urgent cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with human rights rationale. Rather, it pinpoints areas where climate change will have direct and indirect human rights impacts, and where human rights principles might sharpen policy-making on climate change, including in the two core policy areas of adaptation (preparing for the unavoidable and foreseeable effects of climate change) and mitigation (reducing GHG emissions in order to curb climate change).'

http://www.ichrp.org/files/reports/36/136_report.pdf

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Climate change and low-lying Pacific islands: a plain person's guide to global warming, sea-level rise, and the threat to Pacific Islands [pdf]

This paper provides a sea level rise analysis and climate change forecasts. It provides simple and credible explanations in response to the three underlying questions which skeptics and everyday people are preoccupied: - Is global warming contributing to the rate of sea-level rise? - Why do the rates of sea-level rise vary from place to place? and - What is the threat to low-lying islands? This paper also suggests that scientists and those charged with the responsibility for developing and implementing practical strategies to deal with climate change, need to look closer at the current short and medium term trends and the extremes (Phillip Hall, 2008).

http://www.faerberhall.com/papers_enviro/pdf/Sea%20Level%20Rise.pdf

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Climate Change and smallholder farmers in Malawi: Understanding poor people's experiences in climate change adaptation [pdf]

Southern Africa is one of the regions estimated to be most at risk from climate change. While policy responses to global warming have been mainly driven by debates among scientists, the insights of poor people living on the frontline have been largely neglected. This study seeks to understand what is happening from poor people's perspectives (ActionAid, October 2006).

http://www.actionaid.org/assets/pdf/malawi%20climate%20change%20report.pdf

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Climate Change and Sustainable Economic Growth

The urgent need for a large-scale socio-economic transformation to avoid the devastating consequences of climate change are made clear in this International Institute for Sustainable Development report written by Aaron Cosby, Warren Bell and John Drexhage (2005). Yet, it is acknowledged that this must happen in a manner that does not compromise the pursuit of development and economic prosperity. This paper sketches out some of the characteristics of an international policy framework for cooperatively engaging the best tools of the scientific and policy communities to address this challenge in the short- and long-term.

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2005/climate_economic_growth.pdf

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Climate Change and Technology

This IISD report, written by Deborah Murphy, John Van Ham and John Drexhage (2005) anticipates that technology will play a critical role in mitigating and adapting to climate change. With this in mind, it considers how a global climate regime for post-2012 could more effectively promote the development, deployment and diffusion (DD&D) of appropriate technologies.

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2005/climate_tech.pdf

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Climate Change and the International Carbon Market

This IISD paper, written by Warren Bell and John Drexhage (2005) examines how a future "global" climate regime might make the most effective use of market forces, including the promotion of a robust and efficient carbon market. It recognises that market-based approaches can encourage innovation, enable cost-effective reductions, increase the feasibility of achieving deep long-term, reductions, and promote the development, deployment and transfer of low-carbon energy technologies.

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2005/climate_carbon.pdf

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Climate change clash in Africa

It is the dry season in Uganda's Karamoja region, and more than 40 people have died in recent weeks in fighting between Karimojong warriors and the Ugandan Army. The semi-nomadic Karimojong are pastoralists who protect their cows, violently if necessary. But the recent clashes are a symptom of more universal problems. As elsewhere in Africa, the population in eastern Uganda continues to grow as the environment deteriorates, putting more and more pressure on a land that grows ever drier. (Tristan McConnell, Christian Science Monitor, 20 December 2006)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1220/p06s02-woaf.html?s=hns

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Climate Change Dossier

SciDev.net. Impressions that the battle against global warming is being won are misleading. In many ways, the struggle has only just begun, both on the scientific and the political front, while for many developing countries, action to mitigate its potentially disastrous impact is becoming increasingly urgent. This dossier provides news, analysis, commentary and background information on current debates about the nature and implications of climate change.

http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierItem&Dossier=4&CFID=161995&CFTOKEN=39298724

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Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (Pdf)

This report highlights that climate change will affect the health of humans as well as the ecosystems and species on which we depend, and that these health impacts will have economic consequences. The editors believe that an integrated assessment of how climate change is now adversely affecting and will continue to affect health and economies can help mobilize the attention of ordinary citizens around the world, and help generate the development of climate-friendly products, projects and policies. With early action and innovative policies, business can enhance the world's ability to adapt to change and restabilize the climate. (Paul R. Epstein and Evan Mills, Eds., UNDP, 2005)

http://www.undp.org/biodiversity/pdfs/CCF_Report_2005_final.pdf

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Climate Change Knowledge Network (CCKN)

The Climate Change Knowledge Network brings together expertise, experience and perspectives from more than a dozen organizations from developing, transitional and developed countries. Limited resources, knowledge and capacity in developing countries, and lack of dialogue and understanding between industrialized and developing countries, obstruct progress toward international efforts to address climate change. The Climate Change Knowledge Network aims to help address these gaps by facilitating focused research and capacity building in developing and developed countries, with sustainable development as the overall goal.

http://cckn.net/

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