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The issue of how gender influences the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in tackling climate change is under-researched. This paper offers a systematic review of how gender shapes, and is shaped by, the interaction of ICTs and climate change. It explains why, and how, women tend to be more constrained than men from using ICTs in tackling climate change. Women are systematically disadvantaged in terms of control over and access to assets, institutions and structures, which effects how they adapt to climate change and respond to climate-related disasters.
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The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new findings from the past six years of research.Key findings include:
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Not only is the agricultural sector highly vulnerable to climate change, is it also one of the sectors most distorted and heavily influenced by a wide range of local, regional, national and international trade policies. The increased stress to the system brought about by climate change makes reform in global agricultural policies arguably even more important.
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OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) hosted a seminar bringing together various climate change and development experts from both developed and developing nations alike. Based on their regional perspectives, participants identified issues and approaches relevant to an evolving, equitable regime for addressing climate change.
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Tackling climate change is one of the greatest environmental challenges humanity faces today. This report provides essential information and advice on how to facilitate the integration of climate adaptation into development processes. The guidance provides a key reference for Development Cooperation and Environment Ministries and Agencies in their co-operation with developing country partners in support of adaptation to climate change.
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Because of its low adaptive capacity, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change events, particularly as the social protection system in Cambodia is still under development. This technical note discusses "adaptive social protection" - the concept that requires that social protection should consider both short- and long-term shocks and stresses associated with climate change. It starts by looking at where the country stands at the moment in terms of existing patterns of poverty and vulnerability, burden of disease, human socio-economic security etc.
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This paper examines the security implications of climate change on the communities that host Fulani herdsmen In Nigeria. The paper states that these herdsmen were forced to migrate south from their origin in north Nigeria as a result of drought, food shortage, and unusual weather. The paper also examines the form of social relations that has developed as a result of climate change.
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How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP) and livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity. In this context, as no single intervention addresses all of the features of adaptive capacity, the authors suggest a combination of the various approaches to better address the key features of adaptive capacity to cope with climate change and variability.The paper: