All articles for the topic: synergies between adaptation and mitigation

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Foundations of Stewardship Consulting, Inc.

We are a small Canadian consulting firm that provides leadership and interdisciplinary expertise with the conviction that social, economic and ecological aspects of development are critical to succ

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Low Carbon Resilience: Transformative Climate Change Planning for Canada

Low Carbon Resilience to Climate Change in Canada

This paper points to the co-benefits and synergies we can achieve if we take a  'low carbon resilience' approach and consider climate change adaptation and mitigation simultaneously.

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Focali

Focali (Forest, Climate, and Livelihood research network) is a Swedish research network focusing on forest / bio-energy, climate change and poverty issues.

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Adaptation in the Congo Basin

This report presents the progress of projects and initiatives that promote adaptation and REDD+ in the Congo Basin region and analyses opportunities for synergies or trade-offs between the two strategies. 

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New Climate Economy- Synthesis Report

The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate was set up to examine whether it is possible to achieve lasting economic growth while also tackling the risks of climate change. The...

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Mitigating and adapting to climate change: Multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure

Abstract

In order to develop climate resilient urban areas and reduce emissions, several opportunities exist starting from conscious planning and design of green (and...

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Bio-toilets: Transforming Indian Sanitation

This article describes how a social enterprise is helping to eradicate the malaise of open defecation by providing eco-friendly bio-toilets (or bioloos).

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Current vulnerability in Rwanda

Between 2011 and 2012, a regional baseline assessment to analyse vulnerability was conducted in five landscapes of the Congo Basin as part of the ‘Climate Change and Forests in the Congo Basin: Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation (COBAM)’ project. This briefing note summarises the results for the Virunga landscape around Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda along the borders of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea case study

Between 2011 and 2012, a regional baseline assessment to analyse vulnerability was conducted in five landscapes of the Congo Basin as part of the ‘Climate Change and Forests in the Congo Basin: Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation (COBAM)’ project. This briefing note summarises the results for the Monte Alén–Monts de Cristal landscape.

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Catalysing sustainable tourism: The case of Chiang Mai, Thailand

This case study investigates sustainable tourism in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 

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Advancing green growth in the tourism sector:
 The case of Hue, Vietnam

Summary

Hue is a small but rapidly growing city in central Vietnam where tourism plays a key role in the city’s socioeconomic development, but also has negative impacts on its environment...

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Climate-smart street lighting

Thirumalai Nagar's climate smart street lighting

350 families live in the village of Thirumalai Nagar, which is located only 500m from the sea in Tamil Nadu. It was...

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Introducing individual latrines and smokeless cook stoves

Cooking facilities before introduction of smokeless chullahs

The coastal community of Govupeta in Andhra Pradesh with its 345 inhabitants lacked proper sanitation –...

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Solar powered water purification

Vengamukka Palem, a cluster of villages 5 km away from Ongole town in Andhra Pradesh, has increasingly been facing the salinisation of their groundwater aquifers and...

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Triple Green II

This project will develop integrated experimental and modelling framework approaches that allow the investigation of the local to global scale opportunities and challenges for sustainable food production.

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The Congo Basin Forests: a solution for both adaptation and mitigation

This articles describes solutions for both adaptation and mitigation in the Congo Basin Forests.

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Local Hopes and Worries about REDD+ Projects

This article details hopes and worries about REDD+ projects held by local communities. 

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Integrating Adaptation in REDD+ Projects – Potential Impacts and Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Sogod, Southern Leyte

This research project aims to explore the costs, benefits, and overall impact of integrating community-based adaptation strategies in REDD+ target areas.

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Climate Change and Forests in the Congo Basin: Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation (COBAM)

The COBAM project aims to provide stakeholders with the information, analysis and tools they need to adapt to climate change and reduccarbon emissions in the forests of the Congo Basin

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Tropical forest

Role of tropical wetlands for adaptation and mitigation

Tropical wetland ecosystems such as peatlands and mangroves play an important role in mitigating, and adapting to climate change.

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Forests and Climate Change Toolbox

Forests and Climate Change Toolbox

Forests and Climate Change Toolbox

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Forests and synergies between adaptation and mitigation

Forests and synergies between adaptation and mitigation

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Forests and climate change in Latin America

Forest ecosystems play an important role in both adaptation and mitigation and there is a need to explore the linkages between these two options in order to understand their trade-offs and synergies

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