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The United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed CREAT, a software tool to assist drinking water and wastewater utility owners and operators in understanding potential climate change threats and in assessing the related risks at their individual utilities. CREAT provides users with access to the most recent national assessment of climate change impacts for use in considering how these changes will impact utility operations and missions.

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This guideline helps to estimate the impact of the emissions caused by project activities and the direct and indirect contributions to emissions saved due to the project activities. The figures are established in a transparent manner without demanding too much input of resources from the respective project managers. The primary purpose of these figures is to report GHG impacts of energy related TA projects. Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke and Project-Consult GmbH, GTZ, 2010.

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The developed Emissions-Calculating tool facilitates regular monitoring of GHG impacts in energy-related projects. GTZ has tested the tool on six such projects and presents their results. With the Emissions-Calculating tool, GTZ combines aspects from existing accounting methods, such as ISO 14064 and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, in order to maximize accuracy and efficiency with respect to time, effort and administrative burden for data collection and processing.

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The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance has launched the consultation version of the ACCRA adaptive capacity framework! ACCRA is an exciting and ambitious consortium working to improve our understanding of adaptive capacity. We have developed an innovative adaptive capacity framework which we are consulting on, and we are currently using it as a conceptual tool for research on existing Disaster Risk Reduction, Social Protection and Livelihoods programme interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique.

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Abstract: _This initial study report, which focuses on the first objective, finds that the cost between 2010 and 2050 of adapting to an approximately 2oC warmer world by 2050 is in the range of $75 billion to $100 billion a year. This range is of the same order of magnitude as the foreign aid that developed countries now give developing countries each year, but it is still a very low percentage of the wealth of countries as measured by their gross domestic product (GDP).

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This Guide provides a set of tools to assess existing structures and capacities of national, district and local institutions with responsibilities for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in order to improve the effectiveness of DRM systems and the integration of DRM concerns into development planning, with particular reference to disaster-prone areas and vulnerable sectors and population groups.

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TECA is an Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) initiative that aims at improving access to information and knowledge about available proven technologies in order to enhance their adoption in agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry thus contributing to food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable development.

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Civil society perspectives - Land Tenure Working Paper 8.

This paper articulates the views and demands of marginalised groups regarding the tenure of land and other natural resources. It points out the importance of adopting human rights framework when developing Voluntary Guidelines. Such framework means addressing the unequal relationships of power and corruption within and behind prevailing land tenure structures. It makes the governance of tenure of land and other natural resources more accountable, transparent, democratic and participatory

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Background

This is an evaluation of estimates of the costs of adaptation made by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2007 and by some preceding studies (UNFCCC, 2007; Stern, 2006; World Bank, 2006; Oxfam, 2007; UNDP, 2007). The costs have been used as the basis for discussion regarding the levels of investment needed for adaptation to climate change. They have been influential in the debate concerning funding for climate change and it is important, therefore, that such estimates of cost are as robust as possible. The purpose of this report is to assess these estimates and consider ways to improve them in the future.

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Overview

This workbook on generating climate scenarios using MAGIC and SCENGEN is aimed to non-Annex I countries and it will provide the tools for construction of national and regional climate scenarios. The workbook also discusses many of the scientific and technical issues commonly encountered by national teams on climate during their work.