Tackling climate change in the refugee Chad camp area in eastern Chad

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  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNHCR
    Summary:

    UNHCR and its partners, including the Chad government, are addressing the effects of climate change with programmes aimed at better management of dwindling water resources and at holding back desertification by planting trees in one of the driest and hottest countries on earth.

     

    Contacts:

    Andrej Mahecic
    Senior Information Officer
    UNHCR Geneva
    Phone: +41 22 739 86 57
    Mobile: +41 79 200 76 17
    E-mail: mahecic@unhcr.org

    Project Status:
    Under implementation
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Mitigation of short-term effects and long-term strategies to cope with climate change in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya

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  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNHCR
    Summary:
    Contacts:

    Dinesh Shrestha (UNHCR) Shresthd@unhcr.org

    Project Status:
    Under implementation
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Climate Refugees: Implications for India

Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-05-19 17:05
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Author(s):
Architesh Panda
Year:
2010
Publisher:
Economic and Political Weekly
Volume:
VOL 45 No. 20 May 15 - May 21, 2010
Pages:
4 (p. 76-80)
Summary:
Abstract

There is as yet no agreement on the status of people displaced by climate change and the term “climate refugees” has no place in international law. While refugees are supposed to be people who cross national borders, climate change is seen to induce people to move within their countries.

Justice and Adaptation to Climate Change

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-12-11 04:17
Author(s):
Jon Barnett
Year:
2009
Editor:
Jeremy Moss
City:
Victoria
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press
Pages:
131-143
Chapter(s):
Part II: Climate Change and Vulnerable Groups, Chapter 7
Summary:

Climate Change and Social Justice is available as both an e-book with downloadable PDF files or a d-book (print-on-demand). Both versions are available for online purchase at the MUP e-store.

In developed countries such as Australia almost all of the contemporary debates about climate change and justice relate to the distribution of costs associated with national efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Climate Change and Social Justice

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-12-11 04:17
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Author(s):
David J. Karoly, Peter Singer, Jeremy Moss, John Quiggin, John Freebairn, Robyn Eckersley, Jon Barnett, Grant Andrew Blashki, Helen Louise Berry and Michael Richard Kidd, Cam Walker, Jess Fritze and John Wiseman, Charlotte L. Sterrett, Benjamin L. Preston
Year:
2009
Editor:
Jeremy Moss
City:
Victoria
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press
Pages:
246
Summary:

Climate Change and Social Justice is available as both an e-book with downloadable PDF files or a d-book (print-on-demand). Both versions are available for online purchase at the MUP e-store.

This edited volume (published by the Melbourne University Press) covers many issues, including: responsibility for climate change; intergenerational equity; health; environmental refugees; adaptation and equity in climate policy.