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National Adaptation Programme for Action (NAPA)
The objective of the NAPA project for Vanuatu was to develop a country‐wide programme of immediate and urgent project‐based adaptation activities in priority sectors, in order to address the current...
Guidelines for Environmental Emergencies
The response to environmental impacts of natural disasters and complex emergencies, as well as industrial accidents, often requires a level of technical expertise that is beyond the capacity of...
Policy note on climate change
Abstract The country is ranked as the most vulnerable to natural disasters due to frequent cyclones, storm surges and floods, coupled with a high population density and growth, and low climate...
A Food Security and Vulnerability Atlas of Indonesia, 2009
There has been a constant need for the Government of Indonesia to improve geographical targeting of more vulnerable areas for food and nutrition security related interventions. Recognizing World Food...
Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Annual Report 2009 - Climate change in 2009: Local Actions and Global Politics
Preface 2009 was a year of high hopes for a new global agreement on climate change to be signed in Copenhagen in December. An agreement with emission targets that would avoid global warming beyond...
Outil d’Evaluation environnementale rapide (FEAT)
Les désastres naturels tels que les tremblements de terre, les inondations et les ouragans peuvent provoquer des dégâts sur les infrastructures mais aussi des effets secondaires néfastes pour...
World + 9 more
UNEP Disasters and Conflicts Programme - quarterly progress report October - December 2009
Following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, UNEP was mandated by UnderSecretary-General and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes to coordinate the environmental...
Israel + 4 more
Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions - Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East
In a region already considered the world's most water scarce and where, in many places, demand for water already outstrips supply, climate models are predicting a hotter, drier and less predictable...
China + 3 more
Local Responses to Too Much and Too Little Water in the Greater Himalayan Region
Copenhagen, Nairobi, Kathmandu, 11 December 2009 - Hundreds of millions of people in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region and in the river basins downstream are being forced to adapt to a new reality:...
Kiribati: What can you do about a vanishing nation?
An IFAD documentary "The President's Dilemma," at film festival in Copenhagen Copenhagen and Rome, December 11, 2009 - One country that scientists predict will have disappeared under rising sea...
Future uncertain for Pacific Islands like Kirabati
Audio: Kiribati - A Climate Change Reality Boobu Tioram stood on the beach and gestured toward a point about 20 metres into the sea and explained that his first house once stood on a spot now covered...
World + 10 more
Burma taking severe hit from climate change: watchdog
By Wai Moe Burma is one of the countries worst affected by extreme weather resulting from climate change, according to a new report that assesses the impact of global warming over a period of nearly...
Assessing the evidence on migration and the environment - New report reveals major shortcomings on the issue
A new IOM study that assesses existing evidence on migration and the environment as the world rediscovers the issue after a decade of neglect, has underlined the need for more to be done to tackle...
Natural Solutions: Protected Areas Helping People Cope with Climate Change
"This book clearly articulates for the first time how protected areas contribute significantly to reducing the impacts of climate change and what's needed for them to achieve even more," says Lord...
Climate Shame: Get Back to the Table. Initial Analysis of the Copenhagen Climate Talks
Copenhagen was a unique opportunity to turn the world's course away from climate disaster, towards a safe future for all of us on this small planet. Massive global public mobilisation demanded it...
Faim et Malnutrition, Conséquences Trop Oubliées des Changements Climatiques
Dans nos pays occidentaux, quand on évoque les changements climatiques, on s'interroge sur l'avenir. Mais les effets des changements climatiques ne sont pas que pour demain. Ils se font déjà sentir...
Witness to Climate Change: Learning from Older People's Experience
Climate change and ageing are two of the biggest issues facing humanity this century, yet explicit links between the two are rarely made. As world leaders prepare to negotiate a successor agreement...
India + 3 more
Why is South Asia vulnerable to climate change?
Geography coupled with high levels of poverty and population density has made South Asia especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Speaking ahead of the United Nations Climate Change...
Reality Check: Climate Funds & Development
Climate Change is the biggest challenge confronting our present generation with potentially catastrophic consequences for ecological systems along with people's health, safety and livelihoods. But...