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This report, prepared by Bureau of Environmental Analysis (BEA) international, compiles case studies aimed to determine the potential of indigenous knowledge to strategically contribute to mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

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CAPRi Policy and Research Brief: The Role of Collective Action and Property Rights in Climate Change Strategies discusses the importance of institutions in addressing climate change. Moreover, the brief discusses the potential for positive collective action and the intersection with property rights and climate change responses.

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Adaptation is an important element on the climate change policy agenda. Integrated assessment models, which are key tools to assess climate change policies, have begun to address adaptation, either by including it implicitly in damage cost estimates, or by making it an explicit control variable. We analyze how modelers have chosen to describe adaptation within an integrated framework, and suggest many ways they could improve the treatment of adaptation by considering more of its bottom-up characteristics.

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This document elaborates on issues of less-than-perfect information on climate impacts and vulnerabilities, and need for better informed decisions on “resilient adaptation” by merging adaptation, mitigation and prevention strategies.

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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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FAO has prepared an analysis of Agriculture and the UNFCCC process in 2010. The FAO Information Note on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in the Post-Copenhagen Processes notes that while only a limited number of Non-Annex I Parties have made submissions in response to the Copenhagen Accord, the proportion of these that included agriculture may be an indicator that agriculture is likely to become an important component of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in developing countries.

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The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) has released a report titled “Rethinking Poverty: Report on the World Social Situation 2010,” which aims to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication.

The report seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication.

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This study looks into how the EU has fulfilled a crucial commitment within the so-called Bonn Declaration of 2001, a collective agreement of the then EU-15 and five other OECD donor countries to provide financial support to developing countries for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The report finds that although support has been provided through dedicated climate change funds, the amount of support provided falls well short of the amount pledged.

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This report provides an exhaustive overview of the literature regarding the role protected areas play in reducing emissions from land use change, and sustaining ecosystem services that will be vital to reducing the vulnerability of humans to climate change. Section 3, Adaptation – The role of protected areas, looks at reducing the impacts of natural disasters, safeguarding water, addressing health issues and biodiversity conservation and maintaining ecosystem resilience.

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Year: 2010
Type: Report
Authors: Nigel Dudley, Sue Stolton, Alexander Belokurov, Linda Krueger, Nik Lopoukhine, Kathy MacKinnon, Trevor Sandwith and Nik Sekhran
Published by: IUCN-WCPA, TNC, UNDP, WCS, The World Bank and WWF

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