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- This report explains the state of sustainable buildings and the construction industry in India including best practices, successes, barriers and recommendations for further implementation towards mitigation of climate change impacts. This report was published by UNEP in 2010.
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- Priyanka Kochhar
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/pdf/SBCI_State_of_play_India.pdf
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- This document describes a project which seeks to address some of the potential consequences of climate change in the low-lying deltaic country of Bangladesh by introducing stress tolerant seeds. It summarises lessons learned which can be applied in climate change adaptation. These include: working within the local context; effective stakeholder engagement; raising awareness at multiple levels; catalysing other climate change initiatives; and resourcing projects. The document is one of a series of IFC SmartLessons from the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, a programme to share lessons learned in development-oriented advisory services and investment operations. It was published in May 2010.
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- Anika Ali; Mrinal Sircar
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/10489
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- This report provides an assessment of adaptation issues relating to climate change and rice production in Indonesia and recommends potential agronomic, policy and trade measures to meet future food security needs. The work, which built upon an earlier study, involved a review of the literature, discussions with key informants in the public and private sectors in Indonesia, and a separately commissioned study on Bulog (logistics agency). The document is Report No. 44434-10, a study under the Rice Policy Dialogue AAA (P1 08646), published by The World Bank in July 2008.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6236
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- This report attempts to estimate the social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution damage categories: urban air pollution, inadequate water supply and indoor air pollution as well as four natural resource damage categories: agricultural damage, rangeland degradation, deforestation and natural disasters. The report provides estimated costs in Rupees for all of the above categories. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- Muthukumara Mani; Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Elena Strukova
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12065
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- This report proposes a number of CO2 abatement cost curves and scenarios to set low-carbon targets and identify cost-effective, low-carbon investments to inform Shanghai municipal and Changning District governments in their commitment to transition to a low-carbon city. This includes a survey of buildings in the Hongqiao area to diagnose current energy use patterns, development of carbon abatement cost curves, prioritization of mitigation measures and development of three alternative abatement scenarios. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16710
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- This document provides an overview of shrimp and catfish farming in the Mekong River delta of Vietnam, discusses methods for assessing impacts of climate change and economic analysis of adaptation and examines the potential impacts of climate change on aquaculture in the Mekong River delta, costs of adaptation to climate change impacts, policy implications for estimated adaptation costs and cost of climate change adaptation at farm level. This report was published by WorldFish in 2012.
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- Kam S. P.; M-C. Badjeck; L. Teh; L. Teh; N. Tran
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_3395.pdf
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- This report analyses the economy of Bangladesh and the effects of climate change on its economy. It discusses the potential for economic growth in the country and the impact that this can have on poverty, and describes the challenges the country faces in its attempt to create sustainable economic growth. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12288
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- This report analyses the economy of Bangladesh and the effects of climate change on its economy. It discusses the potential for economic growth in the country and the impact that this can have on poverty, and describes the challenges the country faces in its attempt to create sustainable economic growth. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12121
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- This study analyses the implementation of the Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) project in Thailand, a project which assesses how bioenergy developments can be implemented without hindering food security. This document contains the main findings and recommendations for policy-makers. The methodologies and data are included in a separate document: Bioenergy and food security: the BEFS analysis for Thailand.
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- Beau Damen
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1745e/i1745e00.htm
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- This brief report outlines how biodiversity degradation leads to changes in ecosystems which impacts the key components of human health and well-being including provision of food and medicines and disease patterns and suggests ways that biodiversity can be managed to mitigate the impacts. This report was published in 2010.
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- Camille Parmesan; Suzanne Skevington
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001897/189744e.pdf
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- This study analyses the implementation of the Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) project in Thailand, a project which assesses how bioenergy developments can be implemented without hindering food security. This document contains the methodologies and data. The main findings and recommendations for policy-makers are included in a separate document: BEFS Thailand: key results and policy recommendations for future bioenergy development.
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- Mirella Salvatore; Beau Damen
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1739e/i1739e00.htm
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- This brief report evaluates the positive and negative environmental effects of biofuel production as a method of improving energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to rural development. It examines global trends in biofuels, biofuels in relation to the environment, methods of improving biofuel systems and the future for biofuels. This report was published in 2009.
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- R. W. Howarth; S. Bringezu
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183113e.pdf
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- This policy brief summarizes how global aquaculture uses natural resources and its impacts on the environment and highlights how to more effectively manage the environmental costs so the aquaculture can contribute to food security and environmental sustainability.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2820.pdf
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- This document presents lessons learned from the Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Irrigated Agriculture project which sought to demonstrate how the results of various development initiatives in China's Huang-Huai-Hai River Basin could be safeguarded from the effects of climate change. The document is one of a series of IFC SmartLessons from the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, a programme to share lessons learned in development-oriented advisory services and investment operations. It was published in January 2012.
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- Bjorn Conrad; Qun Li
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/10420
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- This study examined whether near-future expected changes in climate would affect the supply of food in China and the ability of the country to feed itself. The effect of temperature and precipitation on net crop revenues was examined using a cross section consisting of both rain-fed and irrigated farms in a survey of data from 8,405 households across 28 provinces. This report is Policy Research Working Paper 4470 from The World Bank Development Research Group, Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Team, published in January 2008.
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- Jinxia Wang; Robert Mendelsohn; Ariel Dinar; Jikun Huang; Scott Rozelle; Lijuan Zhang
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6592
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- This study analyses the carbon and water footprint concepts which measure greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming and the consumption and contamination of freshwater resources respectively. It studies the origins of the carbon and water concepts, compares the two concepts and the responses to carbon and water footprints (including increasing carbon and water efficiency, changing production and consumption patterns and offsetting, neutrality and trading) with a summary of lessons learned to inform future practice. This study was published by UNESCO in 2012.
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- A. Ertug Ercin; Arjen Y. Hoekstra
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=217181&set=53C528D9_3_54&gp=1&lin=1&ll=1
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- This study describes the potentially suitable areas globally for projects which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while assisting developing countries in achieving sustainable development through afforestation/reforestation activities. It also describes the socio-ecological characteristics of these suitable lands and estimates the impacts of these projects on global, regional and local water cycles. This report was published by IWMI in 2006.
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- Robert J. Zomer; Antonio Trabucco; Oliver van Straaten; Deborah A. Bossio
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.101
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- In this case study, Professor Steve Altaner from the University of Illinois Department of Geology discusses the environmental and economic impacts that diverting rivers for agricultural irrigation has had on the Aral Sea and its surroundings.
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- Steve Altaner
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- Connexions
- http://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]
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- This information sheet provides information on phenomena connected with climate change. Included are explanations of Solar energy output and Milankovitch cycles together with events that influence the natural energy cycle (volcanic pollution, industrial pollution, greenhouse effect, El Nino and La Nina). Also included are links to websites of interest and bibliographic references. This is one of a series of information sheets from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, England.
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- Mick Kelly
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- Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia
- http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/causecc/
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- This article discusses the importance of knowledge management in tackling the issues posed by climate change. It was published in Development Outreach, a journal managed by the World Bank Institute, in April 2008.
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- Habiba Gitay; Michele de Nevers
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4537
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- This article discusses the issues and challenges involved in China's transition to a low carbon economy. It was published in Development Outreach, a journal managed by the World Bank Institute, in April 2008.
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- ku Xuedu; Zhuan Guiyang; Pan Jiahua
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4528
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- This report is part of the East Asia and Pacific Clean Stove Initiative Series of papers, a result of a collaboration between the World Bank and the Chinese government. The report describes the steps taken by the Chinese government to improve household cooking and heating conditions. This report provides a literature review of current knowledge on the subject and proposes a way forward for achieving universal access to clean cooking and heating solutions. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16662
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- This report introduces the work of the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Clean Stove Initiative (CSI), which focuses on promoting access to modern cooking and heating solutions in the region. The report provides findings from CSI activities in Indonesia, Laos, China and Mongolia and makes suggestions for changes to government policy in order to encourage the use of cleaner cooking and heating stoves.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16663
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- This report provides an overview of the potential impacts of climate change adaptation activities on aquatic and marine ecosystems and associated livelihoods, considering mitigation and adaptation approaches, costs of adaptation and the potential effects of adaptation. It presents examples of adaptation activity in the Bay of Bengal, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand and Indian Ocean Islands countries. This report was published by the FAO in 2014.
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- Clare Shelton
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3569e/i3569e.pdf
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- This paper reviews the predicted impacts of climate change on marine and freshwater capture fisheries and introduces and applies the concepts of vulnerability, adaptation and adaptive capacity.
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- Tim Daw; W. Neil Adger; Katrina Brown; Marie-Caroline Badjeck
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0994e/i0994e03.pdf
