Climate Change Resource Guide

Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change

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Indigenous communities have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the close connection between their livelihoods, culture, spirituality and social systems and their environment. This key issues guide, developed by an expert, provides resources for better understanding the relationship between indigenous knowledge and climate change, the potential this relationship may hold, and the challenges that may underlie it.

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ICT-Enabled Development of Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation: L. P. Pant / 2011; Climate change and related stressors are posing an increasing challenge to livelihoods in low-income communities. Those communities need to develop the capacity to adapt to climate change: coping with...
Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future: 2012; This report by the United Nations Development Programme explores why hunger remains pervasive in Africa, despite abundant agricultural resources, a favourable growing climate and rapid economic growth...
Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils: World Bank, 2012; This report by the World Bank presents state of the art knowledge on the impact of different land management practices on soil carbon sequestration rates across the world. The technical study undertak...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Brazil: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative’s (NICFI) support to the formulation and implementation of national REDD strategies and ot...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to a Global REDD+ Regime 2007-2010: R. Tipper / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report is an output of the first iteration of a process of real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). This strand of evaluation addresses NICFI’s contri...
Radio as a development tool in Africa: M. Myers / International Development Research Centre , 2008; Radio is still the dominant mass-medium in Africa with the widest geographical reach and the highest audiences compared with television (TV), newspapers and other information and communication technol...
Solar heat worldwide: markets and contribution to the energy supply 2010: W. Weiss / International Energy Agency, 2012; This publication by the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC) documents the solar thermal capacity in worldwide markets, assesses the contribution of these syst...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010 Country Report: Democratic Republic of Congo: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report is part of a series of real-time evaluations to assess the results of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) against its specific objectives and the general objective...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010, Country Report: Guyana: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report is one of five national-level studies conducted as part of the Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative. It aims to document the baseline on Reducing Em...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Indonesia: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the support provided by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) to the formulation and implementation of national REDD1...