Coping with a Changing Climate: Considerations for Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture

Author(s):
Michael H. Glantz, René Gommes, Selvaraju Ramasamy
Year:
2009
City:
Rome
Publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pages:
118
Summary:

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.

Global Adaptation Atlas

Summary:

The Adaptation Atlas is a dynamic mapping tool, developed by Resources for the Future, in collaboration with a diverse network of partners.

As adaptation is both a global and a local problem affecting populations and ecosystems around the world, it is natural that responses will be sector-, site-, and population-specific. Success depends on site-specific attention and effective large-scale real-time coordination of impacts and actions.

Tackling climate change on the ground - Corporate case studies on land use and climate change

Author(s):
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Year:
2009
City:
Geneva
Publisher:
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Pages:
32
Summary:

Full Report

The report is a compilation of business case studies on best solutions to address land use based emissions.

TEEB for National and International Policy Makers 2009

Author(s):
Alexandra Vakrou, Augustin Berghofer, Christoph Schroter-Schlaak, Heidi Wittmer, Patrick ten Brink, Pavan Sukhdev, Stephen White
Year:
2009
Publisher:
Institute for European Environmental Policy
Summary:

Publication

TEEB for Policy Makers is a report for national and international policy makers on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. It looks at the global biodiversity crisis, the ecological, economic and human dimensions of the crisis and the related policy challenge. The report looks at the response in two parts. First it is critical to measure what we manage.