Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
Climate Change
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Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Two possible adaptation options to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area constant. The second scenario increases both rainfed and irrigated crop yields by 25 percent for all Sub-Saharan African countries.
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Negotiating adaptation: international issues of equity and finance
In the course of 2009, negotiators will need to come to a coherent and alanced policy framework for a future climate change regime. One that takes on board the development needs of vulnerable countries and that passes the test of equity to reflect the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities of each Party.
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Wildlife in a changing world: an analysis of the 2008 IUCN red list of threatened species
Wildlife in a Changing World presents an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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The future is here: climate change in the Pacific
Developing nations in the Pacifi c are at the frontline of global climate change. Livelihoods and food and water sources that have sustained communities over generations are being threatened. People are losing land and being forced from their
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Climate and trade policies in a post-2012 world
Climate and Trade Policies in a Post-2012 World is a collection of short forward-thinking articles by leading experts on the relationship between trade and climate change policies.
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Subsidising food crisis: synthetic fertilisers lead to poor soil and less food
This report present scientific evidence linking synthetic fertiliser overuse and imbalanced use in Indian agriculture to the current system of government subsidies on fertilisers , showing how this system is leading to soil degradation and stagnant food production. Synthetic fertilisers cause also further damage in the environment.
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The HFC imperative: essential action for global climate protection
The Montreal Protocol has been extremely successful in enabling the phase-out of ozone depleting substances (ODS). As a result of these phase-outs, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have been commercialized as substitutes for ODS. The HFCs being used as ODS substitutes are powerful greenhouse gases (GHG) with global-warming potentials (GWP) hundreds to thousands of times
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Realistic costs of carbon capture
This paper seeks to shed light on the costs of carbon capture by reviewing and comparing the available material on costs of capture for both mature technology and early plants, attempting to account for differences where possible. It mainly refers to US costs, for which the greatest amount of published analysis is available.
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Carbon capture and storage
Secure, reliable and affordable energy supplies are needed for sustainable economic growth, but increases in associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and the associated risk of climate change, are a cause of major concern.
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The clean development mechanism guide - 2009
This Guide has three main objectives: to provide information to all those interested in CDM project activities; to detail the specific regulations governing the submission of CDM project activities in Brazil; and to facilitate an understanding of the process and, consequently, promote the development of CDM