Energy and Environment Resources
Publications
- NHDR Guidance Note on Climate Change (English) [612 KB]
Risk, Shocks, and Human Development: On the Brink
Energy and Environment Library
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) All reports can be accessed on their website: http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/reports.htm
INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais). 2007. “Sistema de Detecção do Desmatamento em Tempo Real (DETER).” Database. São José dos Campos.
IRI (International Research Institute for Climate and Society). 2007. “Climate Risk Management in Africa: Learning from Practice.” Climate and Society No 1. The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York.
ISDR (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction) and World Bank GFDRR (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery). 2006. “A Partnership for Mainstreaming Disaster Mitigation in Poverty Reduction Strategies.” Geneva and Washington, DC.
——. 2007. “Committed to Reducing Vulnerabilities to Hazards by Mainstreaming Disaster Reduction and Recovery in Development. Progress Report 1. Geneva and Washington, DC.
ISSC (International Scientific Steering Committee). 2005. Report of the International Scientific Steering Committee. International Symposium on Stabilization on Greenhouse Gas Concentrations— Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, 1–3 February, 2005 Met-Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change, Exeter, UK. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London.
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being—Synthesis. Island Press, Washington, DC. [http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf]. September 2007.
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2005b. “Harmonisation, Alignment, Results: Report on Progress, Challenges and Opportunities.” Paris.
——. 2006a. Declaration on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Cooperation. OECD, Paris.
——. “Survey on Harmonisation and Alignment of Donor Practices.” Paris.
Oxfam International. 2005. “Predictable Funding for Humanitarian Emergencies: a Challenge to Donors”. Oxfam Briefing Note. [http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/bn051024_CERF_predictablefunding/download]. October 2005.
——. 2007. “Adapting to Climate Change. What’s Needed in Poor Countries, and Who Should Pay.” Oxfam Briefing Paper 104. Oxford.
Stern, Nicholas. 2006. The Economics of Climate Change. The Stern Review. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.
Stern, Nicholas and Chris Taylor. 2007. “Climate Change: Risk, Ethics and the Stern Review,” Science 317 (5835): 203–204.
- UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). 2007. “MDG Carbon Facility: Leveraging carbon finance for Sustainable Development.” UNDP, New York. [http://www.undp.org/mdgcarbonfacility/docs/brochure-eng-29may07.pdf]. September 2007.
UNDP-DDC/BCPR and UN-ISDR 2005. “Drought Risk and Development Policy.” Discussion paper prepared for the UNDP-DDC/BCPR and UN-ISDR Expert Workshop Drought Risk and Development Policy, 31 January–2 February, 2005, Nairobi.
UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)–Global Environment Facility (GEF). 2003. “The Adaptation Policy Framework. User’s Guidebook.” UNDP, New York.
UN–E (United Nations – Energy). 2005. “The Energy Challenge for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals.” [http://es.un.org/un-energy]. August 2007.
UNEP(United Nations Environment Programme) and GRID (Global Resource Information Database)–Arendal. 2001. “Vital Climate Graphics.” Arendal, Norway. [http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/36.htm]. May 2007.
- UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). 1998. “Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.” Climate Change Secretariat, Bonn. [http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.pdf]. September 2007.
——. 2007a. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Small Island Developing States. Background paper for Expert Meeting on Adaptation for Small Island Developing States, 5–7 February Jamaica and 26–28 February Cook Islands. Climate Change Secretariat, Bonn.
——. 2007c. “Report on the analysis of existing and potential investment and financial flows relevant to the development of an effective and appropriate international response to climate change.” Dialogue on Long-term Cooperative Action to Address Climate Change by Enhancing Implementation of the Convention. Dialogue Working Paper 8. Bonn.
——. 2007d. “Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).” Webpage. [http://cdm.unfccc.int/index.html]. September 2007.
——. 2007e. “CDM Statistics.” [http://cdm.unfccc.int/Statistics/index.html]. September 2007.
WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization). 2007. ”Changing the Climate: Why Women's Perspectives Matter.” New York.
WRI (World Resources Institute). 2007a. Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT). [http://www.wri.org/climate/project_description2.cfm?pid=93]. July 2007.
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UNDP Drylands Development Center
United Nations Environment Center (UNEP)
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