Occasional Papers: Topical background research for the HDR
- Arroyo, Vicki, and Peter Linguiti, "Current Directions in the Climate Change Debate in the United States" [486 KB]
- Barker, Terry, and Katie Jenkins, "The Costs of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change" [265 KB]
- Boykoff, Maxwell T, and J. Timmons Roberts, "Media Coverage of Climate Change" [578 KB]
- de la Fuente, Alejandro, and Ricardo Fuentes, "The Impact of Natural Disasters on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico" [211 KB]
- Helm, Dieter, "Climate change" [218 KB]
- Henderson, Caspar, "Carbon Budget—the agenda for mitigation" [494 KB]
- IGAD, ICPAC, "Climate Change and Human Development in Africa" [2,305 KB]
- O’Brien, Karen, and Robin Leichenko, "Human Security, Vulnerability and Sustainable Adaptation" [251 KB]
- Osbahr, Henny, "Building resilience" [252 KB]
- Perelet, Renat, "Central Asia" [764 KB]
- Perelet, Renat, Serguey Pegov and Mikhail Yulkin, "Climate Change" [425 KB]
- Rahman, A. Atiq, Mozaharul Alam, Sarder Shafiqul Alam, Md. Rabi Uzzaman, Mariam Rashid and Golam Rabbani, "Risks, Vulnerability and Adaptation in Bangladesh" [3,908 KB]
- Reid, Hannah, and Saleemul Huq, "International and National Mechanisms and Politics of Adaptation" [183 KB]
- Seck, Papa, "Links between Natural Disasters, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Risk Reduction" [342 KB]
- Watson, Jim, Gordon MacKerron, David Ockwell and Tao Wang, "Technology and carbon mitigation in developing countries" [361 KB]
Thematic Papers
- Brown, Oli, "Climate change and forced migration" [303 KB]
- Carvajal, Liliana, "Impacts of Climate Change on Human Development" [663 KB]
- Conceição, Pedro, Yanchun Zhang and Romina Bandura, "Brief on Discounting in the Context of Climate Change Economics" [396 KB]
- Conde, Cecilia, Sergio Saldaña, and Víctor Magaña, "Thematic Regional Paper" [264 KB]
- de Buen, Odón, "Decarbonizing Growth in Mexico" [175 KB]
- de la Fuente, Alejandro, "Private and Public Responses to Climate Shocks" [297 KB]
- de la Fuente, Alejandro, "Climate Shocks and their Impact on Assets" [244 KB]
- Dobie, Philip, Barry Shapiro, Patrick Webb and Mark Winslow, "How do Poor People Adapt to Weather Variability and Natural Disasters Today?" [480 KB]
- Gaye, Amie, "Access to Energy and Human Development" [331 KB]
- Kelkar, Ulka, and Suruchi Bhadwal, "South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation" [728 KB]
- Khoday, Kishan, "Climate Change and the Right to Development" [616 KB]
- Krznaric, Roman, "Food coupons and bald mountains" [360 KB]
- Krznaric, Roman, "For God’s Sake, Do Something!" [318 KB]
- Kuonqui, Christopher, "Responding to Clear and Present Dangers" [54 KB]
- Leiserowitz, Anthony, "Public Perception, Opinion and Understanding of Climate Change" [4,866 KB]
- Li, Junfeng, "Mitigation Country Study" [248 KB]
- Mathur, Ritu, and Preety Bhandari, "Living Within a Carbon Budget" [391 KB]
- Matus Kramer, Arnoldo, "Adaptation to Climate Change in Poverty Reduction Strategies" [129 KB]
- Menon, Roshni, "Famine in Malawi" [164 KB]
- Newell, Peter, "The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond" [188 KB]
- Tolan, Sandy, "Coverage of Climate Change in Chinese Media" [69 KB]
- Volpi, Giulio, "Climate Mitigation, Deforestation and Human Development in Brazil" [1,406 KB]
- Winkler, Harald, and Andrew Marquard, "Energy Development and Climate Change" [270 KB]
- Yue, Li, Lin Erda and Li Yan, "Impacts of, and Vulnerability and Adaptation to, Climate Change in Water Resources and Agricultural Sectors in China" [431 KB]
Issue Notes
- Arredondo Brun, Juan Carlos, "Adapting to Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supply in Mexico City" [1,006 KB]
- Bambaige, Albertina, "National Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Impacts" [344 KB]
- Birch, Isobel, and Richard Grahn, "Pastoralism" [130 KB]
- Canales Davila, Caridad, and Alberto Carillo Pineda, "Spain Country Study" [98 KB]
- Chaudhry, Peter, and Greet Ruysschaert, "Climate Change and Human Development in Viet Nam" [224 KB]
- Cornejo, Pilar, "Ecuador Case Study" [793 KB]
- Czisch, Gregor, and Jürgen Schmid, "Mitigation Country Study for Germany" [165 KB]
- Donner, Simon D, "Canada Country Study" [93 KB]
- Lemos, Maria Carmen, "Drought, Governance and Adaptive Capacity in North East Brazil" [100 KB]
- Meinshausen, Malte, "Stylized Emission Path" [703 KB]
- Nangoma, Everhart, "National Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change Impacts" [81 KB]
- Nguyen, Huu Ninh, "Flooding in Mekong River Delta, Viet Nam" [705 KB]
- Orindi, Victor A., Anthony Nyong and Mario Herrero, "Pastoral Livelihood Adaptation to Drought and Institutional Interventions in Kenya" [338 KB]
- Painter, James, "Deglaciation in the Andean Region" [240 KB]
- Pederson, Peter D, "Japan" [448 KB]
- Regmi, Bimal R., and A. Adhikari, "Country Case Study" [228 KB]
- Salem, Boshra, "Sustainable Management of the North African Marginal Drylands" [172 KB]
- Seck, Papa, "The Rural Energy Challenge in Senegal" [98 KB]
- Sullivan, Rory, "Australia Country Study" [176 KB]
- Trigoso Rubio, Erika, "Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Peru" [335 KB]
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