Climate Change Links and Resources

Reports

Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) handbook (2009) - Care International

Climate Change Negotiations: Can Asia Change the Game? (2008) - Singapore Institute of International Affairs

Climatic Hazards, Health Risk and Response in Vietnam: Mekong Delta (2007) - UK Economic and Social Research Council

Climate Change Adaptation Survey: Quang Nam Province Report (2009) ENG - East Meets West Foundation

Climate Change Adaptation Survey: Quang Nam Province (2009) VIET - East Meets West Foundation

Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for Southeast Asia - Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia

Making REDD Work for the Poor (2008) - Poverty Environment Partnership

Climate, Poverty, and Justice: What the Poznan UN climate conference needs to deliver for a fair and effective global climate regime (2008) - Oxfam Great Britain

Fighting climate change - Human solidarity in a divided world - UNDP 2007-2008 Human Development Report

Climate Change and Human Development in Vietnam: A Case Study for the Human Development Report 2007-2008 (ENG) - United Nations Development Programme

Climate Change and Human Development in Vietnam: A Case Study for the Human Development Report 2007-2008 (VIET) - United Nations Development Programme

USAID Climate Change Documents

Case study: Sustainable Livelihoods and Water Management in Shared River Basins (2008)

Adapting Climate Variability and Change - A Guidance Manual for Development Planning (2007)

Workshops

Third International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change, 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Summary report

Leadership Institute on Creative Responses to Global Climate Change (LIGCC) Workshop, 2008, Hanoi

Co-hosted by the Program for International Studies in Asia (PISA) of George Washington University and the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences.
Workshop Introduction
Climate Change Adaptation in Ninh Thuan
Humanitarian Consequences of Climate Change
Environmental Conservation and Livelihood Improvement - Local Initiatives to Respond to Climate Change
The Human Cost of Climate Change

Conferences

Managing Forests in Mekong Countries for Carbon Sequestration and REDD Workshop
Between October 27 and November 5 2008, over a hundred experts and participants from Mekong countries gathered in Hanoi to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with REDD, and to outline the progress that has been made. Download presentations here.

A Global Contract Based on Climate Justice: The Need for a New Approach Concerning International Relations, Brussels, 2008
A Global Contract on Climate Change Background Paper - Policy paper prepared for the conference by Ottmar Edenhofer, Gunnar Luderer, Christian Flachsland, Hans-Martin Füssel.

Climate Justice Conference, Bangkok, 2008

Conference Summary: Towards Climate Justice in Asia - summary report from the conference.

United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali (COP 13), 2007

UN Climate Change Conference, Bali Indonesia (2007) - report by SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation)

UN CLimate Change Conference, Bali Indonesia (2007) - presentation by SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation) to Climate Change Working Group

 

Vietnam Consultative Group Meeting 2008

The Vietnam Consultative Meeting is convened by the Vietnamese Government and the World Bank each year brings together donor agencies and the Government at the highest level. At the end-year Consultative Group meeting in December 2008 a Climate Change Joint Donor Statement was distributed.

Climate Change Adaptation

 

Convergence of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (2008) - UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): an options assessment report (2009) - Meridian Institute

Vietnam - Climate Change, Adaptation and Poor People (2008) - Oxfam

Drought management considerations for climate change adaptation: Focus on the Mekong Region (2008) - Oxfam and Koto University

Climate Change Information Centre - CARE International - website with information on CARE’s global work on climate change

 

Climate Change Mitigation

Baseline and monitoring methodology for project activities that reduce emissions from deforestation on degrading lan (2009) - Terra Global Capital and Community Forestry International

Climate Change Awareness and Behaviour Change


www.earthhour.org
- global awareness campaign that began on 31 March 2007, when 2.2 million people in Sydney, Australia turned off their lights for one hour.

www.treehugger.com - TreeHugger strives to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions and product information.

General Climate Change News Links

Tiempo Climate Newswatch

Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed
Environmental News Network

Earth Policy Institute
Green Facts

Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre


Articles and Presentations

NGO activities in the Carbon Market: a Developer's Perspective in Vietnam (2009)  - Colin Steley, First Climate
New thinking on the Climate Crisis (2008) - presentation by Al Gore
Farming's Central Role in Alleviating Poverty (2007) - Michael Ableman, on the Center for Ecoliteracy website
Solutions that Serve People and the Environment - Zenobia Barlow, on the Center for Ecoliteracy website