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Climate change: A call to action for African leaders
This policy brief, prepared by the Africa Progress Panel, African Development Bank and UN, outlines the implications of climate change for Africa, emphasising the need for a strong and cohesive negotiating position at the December 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen. The authors argue that African...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Climate change and vector-borne diseases: A regional analysis
As global temperatures rise, vector-borne disease is set to increase in the developing world but patterns will vary across countries. This review looks at how the prevalence of vector-borne disease will change in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. As the authors...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2000 | EN
Guide on climate change and indigenous peoples
This guide, published by Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education), outlines the expected impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples around the world, and showcases traditional methods of climate change mitigation and adaption. Following a basic...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2008 | EN
Global carbon markets: Are there opportunities for Sub-Saharan Africa?
This discussion paper, published by the International Food Policy Research Centre, examines the potential for mitigating climate change through carbon trading, with particular emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors provide an overview of global carbon markets, highlighting Africa's share in...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa: where are the hot spots of climate change and household vulnerability?
This book-length report details a study by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) that aimed to map vulnerability to the impacts of climate change in Africa. Climate change models of four different future scenarios were used and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: August 2006 | EN
Reducing West Africa's Vulnerability to Climate Impacts on Water Resources, Wetlands and Desertifica
This report published by the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) is based on participatory consultations with stakeholders and provides a comprehensive and in-depth account of West Africa's vulnerability to climate impacts on water resources, wetlands and desertification. The report contains two...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2004 | EN
IPCC Special Report, The Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998), Chapter 2: Africa
This chapter of the IPCC special report on climate change's regional impacts is one of the most authoritative sources on the issue, despite a considerable amount of work having been published since. The chapter covers the regional climate, key vulnerabilities for various sectors, such as...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 1998 | EN
Adaptation Planning And Implementation: Agriculture And Food Security
In recent years, case studies of countries' experiences of adapting to the impacts of climate change have begun to emerge. This paper is a summary of a presentation given at the 2006 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change African Workshop on Adaptation and outlines adaptation planning...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2006 | EN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Change 2001, Working Group II, Chapter 10: Africa
This chapter of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the authoritative source on climate change impacts and vulnerabilities in Africa. It summarises much of the peer-reviewed literature that explains how Africa will fare in a changing climate. Background...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2001 | EN
Africa's turn: a new Green Revolution for the 21st century
This paper provides a call for a new Green Revolution focused on Africa. It summarises the successes and failures of the original Green Revolution, setting out the challenge of igniting a new one that can succeed in Africa. The authors identify the need for more robust seed varieties, more...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2006 | EN
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This is the full text of the Framework Convention, which was adopted at the United Nations Headquarters, New York on 9 May 1992. The convention was open for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 4 to 14 June 1992, and thereafter at the UN Headquarters in New York, from 20 June 1992...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 1992 | EN
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