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Maldives Considers Buying Dry Land if Seas Rise
ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: November 10, 2008 The presidentelect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its ...
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Climate Disasters a Significant Possibility, Says Nobel Laureate Steve Chu
Climate Community November 3, 2008 In: Business, Science, Policy, Media, Social & NGOs http://www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com/getinformed/news/climatedisastersas ignificantpossibilitysaysnobellaureatestevechu.html Since the IPCC report came out in 2007, new data point to even more alarming scenarios. We ...
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Event, Will Climate Change Lead to more Conflict
Climate Change Lead to More Conflict?" Halvard Buhaug, Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War, The International Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) Tuesday, October 28, 12pm Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor For background and publications ...
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Do more, invest more in mitigating impact of natural disasters, Ban tells world
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX7K9SKS?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P Much more needs to be done and much greater funding made available to mitigate the devastating toll of natural disasters in an age when climate change threatens to increase both ...
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Climate change and displacement
Forced Migration Review 31: http://www.fmreview.org/climatechange.htm In response to growing pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving, communities are adapting. This issue of FMR debates the numbers, the definitions and the modalities and the tension between the need for research and the need to act. Thirtyeight articles ...
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Researchers pinpoint climate change 'hotspots'
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/researcherspinpointclimatechangehotspots.html ?utmsource=link&utmmedium=rss&utmcampaign=ennews <A href="http://www.scidev.net/en/news/researcherspinpointclimatechangehotspot s.html?utmsource=link&utmmedium=rss&utmcampaign=ennews " target="new"><IMG align="right" border="0" height="169" hspace="5 ...
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REPORT Climate change A new threat to stability in West Africa, Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso
from IISD http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?id=1011 By Oli Brown, Alec Crawford Over the past decades, the way we talk about climate change has evolved. Traditionally seen as an environmental and an energy issue ...
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Event CLIMATE CHANGE AS A SECURITY THREAT
CLIMATE CHANGE AS A SECURITY THREAT STRATEGIES FOR POLICYMAKERS, SCIENCE AND BUSINESS On November 6 to 7, 2008 the international conference of the German Federal Foreign Office "Climate Change as a Security Threat Strategies for PolicyMakers, Science and Business" will take place in Freiburg in Breisgau ...
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New CARE Report Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change
http://www.careclimatechange.org/careclimatechange.org/eventsactivities/new report Humaninduced climate change is affecting patterns of extreme weather across the globe, resulting in higher risk of humanitarian disasters. This is especially true in areas where there already are high levels of human vulnerability concludes a new ...
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Joint study identifies humanitarian hotspots and warns of dire consequences unless world leaders act now
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ7HRG5C?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia are among the pivotal states identified as climate change "hotspots" countries particularly vulnerable to the increase in extreme drought, flooding, and cyclones expected in the coming ...
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