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Integrated solutions for biodiversity, climate change and poverty
Climate Change Resilience
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UNEP

2010
The rational for this Policy Brief is to make clear the vital benefits of integrating biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management by taking the Ecosystemsbased Adaptation approach along with the Green Economy Initiative to achieve equitable multiple ‘win-win’ objectives to ensure the continued well-being of human society in the future.
An assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security in the Pacific: a case study in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Climate Change Resilience
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Reti, Muliaga Joe

2008
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has identified the development of subsistence agriculture as a key strategy for the support of its rapidly growing population. The most important food crops are copra, breadfruit and pandanus. These crops used to be abundant during their seasons but harvests are reported to have been disrupted by climatic extremes such as typhoons and droughts in recent years. Prolonged periods of drought over the past twenty years caused changes to the water tables which in turn affected taro and breadfruit production during the period. This situation is expected to worsen with future climate change and has the potential to seriously affect the government’s strategy for the development of the subsistence agriculture sector.
An assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security in the Pacific: a case study in the Cook Islands
Climate Change Resilience
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Reti, Muliagatele Joe

2008
For small island countries like the Cook Islands, no issue merits more attention and action today than climate change! Climate change is the defining human development issue of this generation as it threatens to erode human rights and freedoms to make choices and lead lives the way people and countries value.
Climate change and food security in Pacific islands countries
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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SPREP/USP

2008
The overall purpose of this paper is to address food security and poverty reduction in the face of climate change and energy security. It attempts to bring to the fore food security threats associated with climate change in the food production and supply environments, as well as the broader livelihood and ecological changes that will occur as a consequence. Recognizing the different geographical regions around the Pacific and how climate change would impact on their food security situations opens up new opportunities for understanding why changes happen. An attempt will also be made to address the question; how can Pacific Islanders be assisted to enhance their capacity to reduce risk and make optimal use of current climate resources in order to capitalize on benefits that may arise due to the changing climate. In doing so, it will attempt to highlight some of the current impacts of climate change reported by Pacific Island countries in their national communications to the UNFCCC and their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs), and what attempts have been made to seriously address these issues. It is recognized that climate change is an additional stress that needs to be managed by the agricultural and broader development communities but it should also be emphasized that climate change will further exacerbate current development stresses that are already plaguing the agriculture community and national governments. This paper will try to draw out these links and discuss ways to proactively address the situation now rather then later
Forests and climate change: key publications from CIFOR
Climate Change Resilience

CIFOR

2009
The use of agrobiodiversity by indigenous and traditional agricultural communities in adapting to climate change : synthesis paper
Climate Change Resilience
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Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research

Agro biodiversity, or agricultural biodiversity, includes all the components of biological diversity of relevance to food and agriculture, as well as the components of biological diversity that constitute the agro-ecosystem: the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms, at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels, which sustain the functions, structure and processes of the agro-ecosystem.
A framework for social adaptation to climate change : sustaining tropical coastal communities and industries
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Marshall, N.A ... [et al.]

2010
The estimated 500 million people who depend on coral reefs worldwide regularly contend with change (Wilkinson 2008). Whether it is the shifting demands of a global marketplace, political upheaval at the national level, shortage of local supplies such as fuel, or fickle weather, the resilience of reefdependent people is often put to the test (Cinner et al. 2009d; Hughes et al. 2005a). Despite this hard-earned resilience, coastal communities and reef-based industries are going to be challenged like never before as climate change exerts a multi-faceted influence (Howden et al. 2007; IPCC 2007). The scale and rate of environmental change driven by increases in concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is unprecedented in human history, leading in the next few decades to significant – and in many cases dramatic – alterations in the availability and quality of ecosystem goods and services provided by coral reefs (IPCC 2007, Tonn, 2007, McClanahan et al. 2008)
Implementation of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate change (PACC) project: process, status and assessment
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Hay, John E.

2009
This report presents an overview of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project, from inception to the present day. In addition to providing a baseline, the report also describes and comments on the arrangements, plans and ways forward for the Project.
Summary and policy implications Vision 2030: the resilience of water supply and sanitation in the face of climate change
Climate Change Resilience
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WHO

2009
Providing access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation is a proven engine driving development and promoting health. The water and sanitation targets of Millennium Development Goal 7 have galvanized the international community into a collective effort towards achieving sustainable access to drinking-water and sanitation for millions of people. To safeguard these achievements, we must remain vigilant to emerging trends and risks that could derail our efforts and undermine our impact on poor communities.
Implications of Climate Change for Australia's National Reserve system: a preliminary assessmen
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Brown, Peter R.

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Dunlop, Michael

2008

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