Climate change

This report takes another look at the costs of adapting to climate change. The estimates for 2030 used by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are likely to be substantial under-estimates. Professor Martin Parry and his co-authors look at the estimates from a range of perspectives.

This paper is intended to provide some guidance to the policy-oriented researchers’ work on valuing climate change adaptation in developing countries.

Films included in this compilation are "Mekong: Watch That River!" (2009); "Small Islands, Big Impact" (2009); "South Asia: Crowded Land, Drying Rivers" (2009); and "Yellow River Blues" (2009). Additional information and synopses of the individual films is available from the TVEAP website (www.tveap.org).

Es libro es una colleción de diez articulos cientificos que tratan diferentes aspectos de la Amazonia tales como el clima, uso de tierras, boques y madera, gente y biodiversidad, peces, agroforesteria, reservas naturales y politicas de desarrollo sostenible. Escritos por once de los más renombrados expertos del mundo, todos estos articulos aparecen por primera vez en idioma español. La mayoria de ellos, incluso, son inéditos.

The working conference had as its principal theme to learn about the science of adaptation and mitigation, and related issues of biodiversity conservation issues in the context of United Nations' climate change negotiations.

This study looks at natural disasters and forced displacement in the context of climate change. It has two aims: firstly, to provide an estimate of forced displacement related to disasters in 2008, specifi cally climate-related disasters; and secondly, to propose a methodology that could be applied to monitor disaster-related displacement on an ongoing basis.

In der Diskussion über die aktuellen und zukünftigen Herausforderungen für die Sicherung der biologischen Vielfalt findet sich der Klimawandel stets an vorderer Stelle. Seine Folgen erscheinen bedrohlich, die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen auch für Natur und Landschaft immens. Der demografische Wandel hingegen kommt ungleich leiser daher.

Includes discussion of the conservation activities relating to "les hêtraies du Luzulu-Fagetum", "les phoques" (including Phoca vitulina and Halichoerus grypus), "la cistude d'Europe (Emys orbicularis) and "les grands carnivores" (including Canis Lupus and Ursus arctos).