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With proper forethought, climate finance could cut gender inequity and consequentially become more economically efficient. But the opposite may happen if funds ignore the issue, warns Anna Petherick.
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Prime Minister's Agenda 10: India's disaster risk management roadmap for sustainable development
This paper analyzes the linkages between the Indian Prime Minister's Agenda 10 on Disaster Risk Management and the three major agreements to which India is signatory to, including the Sendai Framework
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Development and justice through transformation: The Four Big ‘I’s
2015 saw a historic double success for sustainability and climate policy. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Paris Agreement on climate
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Climate-fragility risks in Asia: the development nexus
Climate-fragility risks are on the rise globally and developmental paths taken by countries can shape these risks. To understand the link between development and climate-fragility risks in Asia, this brief
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Characterizing national exposures to infrastructure from natural disasters
This report serves as the technical and reference document for the data, methods, and analytic approach used in the analysis of the exposure of critical infrastructure to natural disasters. The analysis
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Ecosystem tipping points due to variable water availability and cascading effects on food security in Sub‐Saharan Africa
The frequency, duration, and magnitude of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and variation in rainfall onset and cessation periods will continue to increase. Such stress may result in significant
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Sensitivity of UK butterflies to local climatic extremes:which life stages are most at risk?
<p>There is growing recognition as to the importance of extreme climatic events (ECEs) in determining changes in species populations. In fact, it is often the extent of climate variability that determines
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Assessing the financial vulnerability to climate-related natural hazards
This paper assesses the high financial vulnerability to the impacts of extreme weather events of national governments, in particular developing countries and small island states.
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Extreme weather events over India in the last 100 years
<p>India being mainly an agricultural country the economy and further its growth purely depends on the vagaries of the weather and in particular the extreme weather events. The information on extreme weather
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Losses to farmers due to changing weather pattern, 18/11/2016
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Losses to farmers due to changing weather pattern, 18/11/2016. Agricultural crops have been affected due to low rainfall in the country in several years. Eleven States,
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Losses to farmers due to changing weather pattern, 18/11/2016
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Losses to farmers due to changing weather pattern, 18/11/2016. Agricultural crops have been affected due to low rainfall in the country in several years. Eleven States,
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Bridging the adaptation gap: approaches to measurement of physical climate risk and examples of investment in climate adaptation and resilience
The Global Adaptation & Resilience Investment Working Group (GARI) released its discussion paper, “Bridging the Adaptation Gap,” reporting that 70 percent of private investors surveyed see both risk and
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WMO provisional statement on the status of the global climate in 2016
It is very likely that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures even higher than the record-breaking temperatures in 2015. Preliminary data shows that 2016’s global temperatures
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WMO provisional statement on the status of the global climate in 2016
It is very likely that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures even higher than the record-breaking temperatures in 2015. Preliminary data shows that 2016’s global temperatures
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Improve weather forecasts for the developing world
Global prediction partnerships would cost little and reduce the regional carnage caused by floods, droughts and tropical cyclones, argues Peter J. Webster.
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Africa’s climate: helping decision-makers make sense of climate information
Africa’s climate is one of the least-researched and poorly understood, but a new report provides reliable scientific information about the continent’s changing climate, equipping decision-makers to plan
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2010 tied for warmest year on record
GENEVA: The warmest year on record is a three-way tie- 2010, 2005 and 1998. So says the U.N.
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Cold conditions continue in State
Unless a spell of rain lashes the NE region, there is apprehension that the present weather condition , which has brought down the mercury level in west and central Assam and the Barak valley, will continue the next 48 hours.
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2010 Ties For Warmest Year, Emissions To Blame
Last year tied for the warmest since data started in 1880, capping a decade of record high temperatures that shows mankind's greenhouse gas emissions are heating the planet, two U.S.
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Towards Morocco: tracking global climate progress since Paris
Australia is lagging behind other countries on tackling climate change after signing the historic Paris Agreement last year, a new report shows. The Climate Council’s new report, “Towards Morocco: tracking