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Training manual on Gender and Climate Change
Climate Change Resilience

Aguilar Lorena

2009
Stewardsguo action plan: a statement of operational standards and climate change contingency planning
Climate Change Resilience
2009
Our precious coasts - Marine pollution, climate change and the resilience of coastal ecosystems
Climate Change Resilience, Waste Management and Pollution Control
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Corcoran, E.

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Nellemann, C.

2006
Massive coral bleaching episodes have impacted the function of the reefs and increased rates of mortality. Coral reefs support over one million plant and animal species and their economic value is pro¬jected to more than US $ 30 billion annually. Extreme climatic con¬ditions, however, are most likely to increase in the future with cur¬rent climate scenarios. Projected increases in carbon dioxide and temperature exceed the conditions under which coral reefs have flourished over the past 500 000 years. Coral reefs are crucial bio¬diversity hotspots and support both coastal fisheries and tourism in many regions. Coral reefs, however, are in decline in many regions as a result of numerous pressures, including, but not limited to, extreme climate events, unsustainable fishing practices, diseases, sedimentation, and discharge of untreated sewage. Increasing re¬silience and securing rapid recovery of coral reefs will be essen¬tial for the ability of these ecosystems to support coastal fisheries and coastal livelihoods and cultures in the future. However, this resilience and recovery may be seriously impounded by unsustain¬able coastal infrastructure development and marine pollution from land-based sources. At the current rate of growth, coastal develop¬ment may impact up to 90% of the tropical and temperate coast¬lines by 2032 if development continues unchecked. While progress has been made to reduce the discharge and impacts of oil spills and persistent organic pollutants (POP’s), there now needs to be a focus on the largest current threats to the coastal marine environment : untreated sewage and piecemeal coastal development.
Climate change and water: technical paper of the IPCC
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Bates, Bryson

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Kundzewicz, Zbigniew

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Palutikof Jean

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Wu, Shaohon Wu

2008
Observational records and climate projections provide abundant evidence that freshwater resources are vulnerable and have the potential to be strongly impacted by climate change, with wide-ranging consequences for human societies and ecosystems. Observed warming over several decades has been linked to changes in the large-scale hydrological cycle such as: increasing atmospheric water vapour content; changing precipitation patterns, intensity and extremes; reduced snow cover and widespread melting of ice; and changes in soil moisture and runoff. Precipitation changes show substantial spatial and inter-decadal variability. Over the 20th century, precipitation has mostly increased over land in high northern latitudes, while decreases have dominated from 10°S to 30°N since the 1970s. The frequency of heavy precipitation events (or proportion of total rainfall from heavy falls) has increased over most areas (likely). Globally, the area of land classified as very dry has more than doubled since the 1970s (likely). There have been significant decreases in water storage in mountain glaciers and Northern Hemisphere snow cover. Shifts in the amplitude and timing of runoff in glacier- and snowmelt-fed rivers, and in ice-related phenomena in rivers and lakes, have been observed (high confidence).
Climate change : challenges Tuvalu
Climate Change Resilience
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Holl, Carina

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Horstmann, Britta

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Ralston, Holley

2004
"We don’t want to leave this place. We don’t want to leave, it’s our land, our God given land, it is our culture, we can’t leave. People won’t leave until the very last minute.” With these dramatic words, Paani Laupepa, the former assistant secretary at Tuvalu's Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, expressed the feelings of many Tuvaluans when it comes to the worst-case scenario of climate change and its effects on small island nations. The scenarios and warnings of international scientist on climate change and its inevitable consequences must be like a constant Damocles Sword for the inhabitants of Tuvalu. For the 21st century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that there will be a warming of global temperatures and a rise of the sea level by up to almost one meter.
Climate change science compendium: 2009
Climate Change Resilience
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McMullen P. Catherine

2009
A thin veneer of atmosphere, soil, and water covers the surface of the planet. That is the envelope supplying most of the raw material we need to live. Energy from the Sun, with some residual energy still within the planet’s core, feeds Earth’s dynamic systems that cycle materials within the envelope. Earth System scientists are investigating the energy and material fluxes that determine the systems’ dynamics to better understand climate change. This Compendium presents some of the vanguard science and conceptual advances under discussion and published by researchers since 2007 that explores the challenge presented by climate change. Rapidly developing tools—that allow fast and accurate readings of environmental conditions, that compile and analyze data series of increasing complexities at unprecedented rates, and that allow insights into fluxes of energy and material at micro and macro scales—have accelerated the rate at which vanguard science is being produced.
The gendered dimensions of disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change : stories from the Pacific
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Australian Aid

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UNDP Pacific Centre

2008
To address the risks women, men, girls and boys face from hazards, climate change and environmental degradation, it is essential to understand a range of variables, such as where people live, their culture, social values and economic position. Different hazards such as earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods, tsunamis, drought, landslides, erosion and wildfires, present different challenges to governments, organisations and communities. Hazards turn into disasters when people do not have the capacity to prepare for, respond to and recover from them. The number of people living on Pacific Islands affected by weather-related disasters has increased from 1.2 million to 18 million in the past 30 years with droughts, extreme temperature events and tropical cyclones producing the most significant impacts (International Federation of Red Cross IFRC) 2002. There are ways to reduce the threat of disaster, however, including examining gender.
World development report 2010: development and climate change
Climate Change Resilience
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The World Bank

2010
Thirty years ago, half the developing world lived in extreme poverty—today, a quarter. Now, a much smaller share of children are malnourished and at risk of early death. And access to modern infrastructure is much more widespread. Critical to the progress: rapid economic growth driven by technological innovation and institutional reform, particularly in today’s middle- income countries, where per capita incomes have doubled. Yet the needs remain enormous, with the number of hungry people having passed the billion mark this year for the first time in history. With so many still in poverty and hunger, growth and poverty alleviation remain the overarching priority for developing countries. Climate change only makes the challenge more complicated. First, the impacts of a changing climate are already being felt, with more droughts, more floods, more strong storms, and more heat waves—taxing individuals, firms, and governments, drawing resources away from development. Second, continuing climate change, at current rates, will pose increasingly severe challenges to development. By century’s end, it could lead to warming of 5°C or more compared with preindustrial times and to a vastly different world from today, with more extreme weather events, many fewer species, and whole island nations submerged. Even our best efforts are unlikely to stabilize temperatures at anything less than 2°C above preindustrial temperatures, warming that will require substantial adaptation.
Climate change and world heritage : report on predicting and managing the impacts of climate change on World Heritage and strategy to assist States Parties to implement appropriate mangement responses = Changement climatique et patrimoine mondial : rapport sur la prevision et la gestion des effets du changement climatique sur le patrimoine mondial et Strategie pour aider les Etats parties a mettre en ceuvre des reactions de gestion adaptees
Climate Change Resilience

Colette, Augustin

2007
Policy document on the impacts of climate change on world heritage properties = Document d'orientation sur l'impact du changement climatique sur les biens du patrimoine mondial
Climate Change Resilience

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

2008

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