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This article presents a systematic framework to identify barriersthat may impede the process of adaptation to climate change. Theframework targets the process of planned adaptation and focuseson potentially challenging but malleable barriers. Three key sets ofcomponents create the architecture for the framework. First,a staged depiction of an idealized, rational approach to adaptationdecision-making makes up the process component. Second, a setof interconnected structural elements includes the actors, the

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Africa is widely held to be highly vulnerable to future climate change and Ethiopia is often cited as one of the most extreme examples.

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Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change

Aid agencies are first on the scene of many of the world's trouble spots, and often play a huge role in helping communities get back on their feet.

But many of these areas, notably West Africa and South-East Asia, are also on the front line of climate change, more vulnerable than most to climatic extreme

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Tropical forests hold several goods and services used by forest-dependent people as safety nets to traverse difficult periods of resource supply. These same goods and services are constantly surrounded by emerging markets linking remote communities with major urban centers nationally and internationally. How these markets affect adaptation remains unclear.

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How emerging markets affect adaptation remains unclear. This paper examines the roles of markets in non-timber forest products that normally serve as safety nets for forest communities, and the implications for climate change adaptation in the Congo Basin. For more information read the Full Article.

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This article appeared in the May 10, 2010 edition of The Nation. April 21, 2010:

It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos.

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The role of technology and technology transfer have emerged as key issues in recent climate change negotiations. The technologies required for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions have been largely identified for both the short and long term, and deployment scales required to mitigate climate change have been analyzed. However a key issue remains that of rapidly progressing such technologies from niche applications in a limited number of countries, to widespread deployment so as to displace incumbent high-carbon technology systems.

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Climate change, involving both human-induced global warming and natural climate variability, has been called upon to explain the occurrences of weather extremes with their associated natural hazards. The Philippines experienced a dry spell in 2007 specifically in parts of Luzon which occurred during the rainy season. On the other hand, areas in Mindanao, southern Philippines which were supposed to be dry, were wet due to the non-migration of the inter-tropical convergence zone northward.

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Anne Hammill, Richard Matthew and Elissa McCarter suggest that microfinance deserves careful consideration by the climate change adaptation community. The authors "believe that the potential for a constructive linkage is there – in some cases much has already been realised – and should not be ignored." The focus of this article is to identify possible links between microfinance services and climate adaptation and to highlight the opportunities and the risks of these links for vulnerability reduction among the world’s poorest populations.