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In Dead Water: Merging of climate change with pollution, over-harvest and infestations in the world's fishing grounds

In this report, the locations of the most productive fishing grounds in the World - from shallow, coastal waters to the deep and high seas - are compared to projected scenarios of climate change, ocean acidification, coral bleaching, intensity of fisheries, land-based pollution, increase of invasive species infestations and growth in coastal development(UNEP, February 2008).

http://www.unep.org/pdf/InDeadWater_LR.pdf

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Aiding oil, harming the climate : A Database of Public Funds for Fossil Fuels (pdf)

This report describes the role of the World Bank and other international financial institutions have in reshaping the oil sectors in developing countries and providing development assistance to finance their operations. (Oil Change International, December 2007)

http://www.endoilaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/aidingoilreport.pdf

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Economic Vitality in a Transition to Sustainability

This booklet by Neva Goodwin surveys how economies will need to change, both to minimize the extent of expected climate change, and to respond to climate-related events that cannot, or will not, be prevented. This booklet is part of Growing the Economy through Global Warming Solutions, a series of papers published by the Civil Society Institute to explore the implications of the transition from a fossil-energy dependent economy to a climate-stable global economic system (Neva Goodwin, February 2008).

http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/te/GEGWS-GoodwinChapter.pdf

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Urban environments, wealth and health: shifting burdens and possible responses in low and middle-income nations (pdf)

This paper examines urban health in low- and middle-income countries, in relation to persistent local environmental health burdens, emerging global environmental burdens that will be experienced in urban areas, and most notably those associated with climate change. (IIED Human Settlements Discussion Paper Series, Urban Environment, 2007)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=%2010553IIED

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa, South Asia Could Face Famines

Climate change will cause major disruptions in the global food system, and adaptation to those changes needs to begin immediately, experts say. In order to prevent this the world community should focus its efforts where climate threats are likely to make the greatest impacts. (IPS, 1 February 2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41041

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EC climate change and energy proposals weak on addressing concerns of the most vulnerable people

The European Commission adopted a new package of proposals for EU legislation on climate change and energy. The significant elements of the package are a proposed directive on the promotion of renewable energy, a directive amending the existing framework of the EU Emissions Trading, and a decision on the individual efforts by member states to jointly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. (Oxfam, January 2008)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/applications/blogs/policy/2008/01/ec_climate_change_and_energy_p.html

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Military vs. Climate Security

Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore called on the nations of the world to mobilize to avert climate disaster "with a sense of urgency and shared resolve that has previously been seen only when nations have mobilized for war." This report measures in fiscal terms how far the US has to go to reach that goal. (Miriam Pemberton, Foreign Policy in Focus, January 2008)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/military%20vs%20climate%20security-final.pdf

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Europeans Test US Commitment to Climate Change

Delegates from the world's greatest carbon-emitting nations are gathering in Hawaii this week at a meeting organized by the Bush administration. Once criticized as an effort to circumvent obligatory emissions cuts, European delegates seem to be attending the climate talks with an open mind (Die Spiegel, 30 January 2008).

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,532077,00.html

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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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Development Issues Crucial for Post-2012 Climate Regime

A discussion of the four building blocks towards a post-2012 UNFCCC climate regime - science and targets; relations between developed and developing countries; the need to link development and environment; and policy coherence (Third World network, September 2007).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/development.issues.in.climate.doc

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Biofuels, Agriculture and Poverty Reduction

Biofuels have been hailed as a solution to climate change and a way to reduce poverty. Some researchers argue that by successfully entering the biofuel market, developing countries can create jobs, boost incomes and so increase food security. This article questions whether biofuels are sustainable. (Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 2007)

http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/NRP107.pdf

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Red Cross / Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness

The Climate Centre supports National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to eventually reduce the loss of life and the damage done to the livelihoods of people affected by the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. The Climate Centre is based in the Netherlands but serves the whole Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement, in particular in developing countries.

http://www.climatecentre.org/index.php?page=1

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Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Guide

The Red Cross/ Red Crescent Climate Guide presents five years of experiences from more than 30 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, in particular in developing countries. It relates the experiences of Red Cross/Red Crescent staff and volunteers all around the world trying to understand and address the risks of climate change (Red Cross/Red Crescent, November 2007).

http://www.climatecentre.org/downloads/File/reports/RCRC_climateguide.pdf

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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali

The Conference took place at the Bali and brought together more than 10,000 participants, including representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and the media. The conference culminated in the adoption of the Bali roadmap, which charts the course for a new negotiating process to be concluded by 2009 that will ultimately lead to a post-2012 international agreement on climate change. (UNFCCC, December 2007)

http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php

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Financing Adaptation: Why the UN's Bali Climate Conference must mandate the search for new funds

Oxfam estimates that adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to cost at least $50bn each year, and far more if global greenhouse-gas emissions are not cut fast enough. Yet international funding efforts to date have been woeful. In the year that the world's scientists made the science irrefutable, the world's policitians must now deliver the finance needed so that the most vulnerable countries can cope with the new reality that they face (Oxfam, 4 December 2007).

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/downloads/bn_bali_adaptation.pdf?m=234&url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/trade/downloads/bn_wdr2008.pdf

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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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Embedding Climate Change Adaptation in Development Processes

Today climate change adaptation is a mainstream development issue. The UK Government-commissioned Stern Review last year analysed the economics of adaptation and NGO campaigns have focused on its justice and equity dimensions. The challenge now is to embed adaptation within wider development debates and practices. (Institute of Development Studies (IDS), November 2007)

http://www.ids.ac.uk/UserFiles/File/publications/in_focus/InFocus2.0ClimateChangeAdaptation.pdf

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"We Want More"

The "first-ever national youth climate summit", a student-based Power Shift conference, took place November 2-5, 2007 at the University of Maryland. Some of the topics covered in the workshops and panels included: anti-racism and anti-oppression, organizing strategies and tactics on the climate issue on college campuses, community-based, statewide and national organizing and legislative approaches on the climate issue, ending the U.S. addiction to coal and oil, civil disobedience and direct action in the climate movement. (ZNet Commentary, November 21, 2007)

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-11/21glick.cfm

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Human Development Report 2007

Human Development Report 2007/2008 looks at Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world (UNDP, 2007)

http://hdr.undp.org/en/

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Environmental Movement in the Global South: The Pivotal Agent in the Fight against Global Warming

The reason for tracing the evolution of a mass-based environmental movement in East Asia and India is to counter the image that Asians are inert elements that accept the environmentally damaging high-growth export-oriented industrialization models promoted by their governing elites (Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South, October 2007)

http://www.focusweb.org/environmental-movement-in-the-global-south-the-pivotal-agent-in-the-fight-against-global-wa.html?Itemid=94

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The right to development in a climate constrained world : the Greenhouse Development Rights framework

What is The Greenhouse Development Rights framework? This paper argues that an emergency climate program is needed, that such a program is only possible if the international climate policy impasse is broken, and that this impasse arises from the inherent but surmountable conflict between the climate crisis and the development crisis (EcoEquity & Stockholm Environment Institute, 2007).

http://www.ecoequity.org/docs/TheGDRsFramework.pdf

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Who are the climate leaders?

A discussion of how corporations and governments need to engage with communities such as the Bo Nok and Chana in order to tackle climate change (Focus on the Global South, October 2007.)

http://www.focusweb.org/who-are-the-climate-leaders.html?Itemid=94

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Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific

The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world's population, around four billion people, live. This, the fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, asks will global warming send Asia and the Pacific 'Up in Smoke'? (IIED, 2007)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=10020IIED

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Africa- Up in Smoke 2 [pdf]

This is the fourth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development. Following the report "Africa Up in Smoke" this is an update on the impacts of climate change in Africa produced to inform the debate around the international negotiations in 2006 in Nairobi.

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=10018IIED

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Tourism feels the heat of global warming

This article offers some explanations as to why travel and tourism leaders are now feverishly working at the climate change front. It considers the idea that governments should rethink tourism as a development solution and offer alternatives to tourism in order to at least reduce the over-dependency on this industry in developing countries(Third World Network, October 2007).

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/ttcd/Anita-Climate%20change-FINAL(oct07).doc

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