Climate change reports Climate change reports
Adaptation and the post-2012 framework
Two degrees, One chance
Overcoming the barriers mainstreaming climate change adaptation in developing countries
Adapting to climate change: challenges and opportunities for the development community
Dried up drowned out
Resecas, ahogadas
Climate change and poverty paper
Disaster Risk Reduction reports Disaster Risk Reduction reports
Archived climate change/DRR reports Archived climate change/DRR reports
HIV AIDS reports HIV AIDS reports
Archived HIV and AIDS reports Archived HIV and AIDS reports
Trade reports Trade reports
Water and Sanitation reports Water and Sanitation reports
Archived water and sanitation reports Archived water and sanitation reports
Other issues reports Other issues reports
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Climate Change

Tearfund is working with partner organisations and governments on climate change and disaster prevention and preparedness. Here you will find the reports that have been written as part of this work.

See also: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

and: Up in Smoke reports


Adaptation and the post-2012 framework (November 07)
Written in time for the 2007 UN climate change conference, this report argues that negotiations on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol must begin at COP 13 in Bali and be concluded by COP 15 in 2009. Adaptation should be a fundamental,...
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Two degrees, One chance (May 2007)
Released in the run up to the G8 summit, this paper explains why global average temperature rise must be kept as far below 2°C as possible (from pre-industrial levels), based on a review of evidence of the impacts at different temperature ranges. I...
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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (November 2006)
Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are i...
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Overcoming the barriers: mainstreaming climate change adaptation in developing countries (October 2006)
This report reviews what progress has been made by developing country governments and donor agencies in mainstreaming climate adaptation into development planning.  It examines barriers to further progress and provides recommendations on how these ba...
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Adapting to climate change: challenges and opportunities for the development community (October 2006)
A discussion paper aimed at improving understanding about adaptation to climate change within development agencies, their partners and other institutions/individuals working in the development community.  In particular it is designed to stimulate bro...
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Dried up, drowned out: perspectives from the developing world on a changing climate (June 2005)
This report reveals that poor communities around the world are extremely vulnerable to climate changes that are happening at the local level.
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Resecas, ahogadas: Voces del mundo an desarrollo sobre el clima cambiante (Junio 2005)
Este informe revela que las comunidades pobres alrededor del mundo son extremadamente vulnerables a los cambios climaticos a nivel local.  Estos cambios son el resultado de un numero de factores diferentes, pero en muchos de los casos, la gestion amb...
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Climate change and poverty paper (July 2002)
This paper is divided into four sections covering the causes of climate change and general predictions of its impacts.
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