ICNARC report on COVID-19 in critical care
<p>This report presents analyses of data on patients critically ill with confirmed COVID-19 reported to ICNARC up to 4pm on 16 April 2020 from critical care units participating in the Case Mix Programme
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Time to change the game: fossil fuel subsidies and climate
Fossil fuel subsidies undermine international efforts to avert dangerous climate change and represent a drain on national budgets. They also fail in one of their core objectives: to benefit the poorest.
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Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: a handbook on agriculture and extractive industries
Foreign investment in agriculture and extractive industries is increasing pressures on land and natural resources. This handbook is about how to use law to make foreign investment work for sustainable
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A framework for mainstreaming climate resilience into development planning
Past and present levels of greenhouse gas emissions have locked unavoidable climate change effects into the climate system for decades to come. Countries with climate vulnerable and poor people need to
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Bad information:oil spill investigations in the Niger Delta
This report published by Amnesty International exposes several serious deficiencies and abuses within the Joint Investigation Visit or JIV process that render it wholly unreliable as a basis for making claims about the cause of oil spills, the volume of oil spilt or the area impacted.
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CDP global water report 2013
<p>The CDP Global Water Report 2013 establishes that a misguided approach to water-related risk management has become business as usual at the world’s largest global companies. Corporate focus is
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Natural disasters: saving lives today, building resilience for tomorrow
The rapid growth in the number of people living in cities and urban landscapes is increasing the world’s susceptibility to natural disasters, according to this new report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. It warns that the unprecedented influx of people to urban areas across the developing world is leading to a large increase in people living in locations susceptible to natural disasters, and the situation is exacerbated by the explosive expansion of informal settlements or ‘slums’.
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The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030
This report examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It concludes that, without concerted action, there could be up to 325 million extremely poor people living in the 49 countries most
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World energy resources: 2013 survey
This 23rd edition of the Survey of Energy Resources published by World Energy Council covers all fossil resources (coal, oil, both conventional and unconventional and gas, both conventional and unconventional), and the main renewable and transitional resources: peat, nuclear and uranium, hydro power, biofuels and waste, wind, solar, geothermal and marine energies.
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World energy scenarios: composing energy futures to 2050
The World Energy Scenarios: Composing energy futures to 2050 is the result of a three-year study conducted by over 60 experts from nearly 30 countries, with modelling provided by the Paul Scherrer Institute.
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Understanding climate diplomacy: building diplomatic capacity and systems to avoid dangerous climate change
E3G, have published a report Understanding Climate Diplomacy – Building diplomatic capacity and systems to avoid dangerous climate change, with CDKN support. The report defines climate diplomacy as encompassing