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Climate Change
Millenium Development Goal 7
UN
EU
OECD
World Bank
Irish Government
NGO’s
Millenium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.
Climate change needs to be better incorporated into the MDGs. Climate change is anticipated to increase the difficulty of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Poor people are generally the most vulnerable to climate change. This is because they live in areas more prone to flooding, cyclones, droughts etc., and because they have little capacity to adapt to such shocks. They are also more dependent on ecosystem services and products for their livelihoods. Any affect that climate change has on natural systems therefore threatens the livelihoods, food intake and health of poor people. The authors of this paper highlight practical ways to meet development and climate change objective.
How global climate change affects the MDGs International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Poverty Eradication, MDGs and Climate Change UNDP
UN
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 inevitable. Recently, a number of nations have approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the climate change process, particularly the COP, the subsidiary bodies and their Bureau.
UN Environment Programme, Fighting Climate Change through Energy Efficiency With world energy prices and climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions ballooning in tandem with a surge in energy demand from the hot economies of China, India and Brazil, the world has a major stake in the success of energy reduction efforts, particularly in those three countries, warn experts concluding a four-year international project.
UN conference agrees agenda for negotiations on new emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol A first round of UN climate negotiations for the period following the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol has successfully concluded in Bonn, Germany.
UN-sponsored efforts to combat climate change move to next level - 16 May 2006. The first stage of new talks on future action under the UN-sponsored climate change process have concluded in Bonn, Germany. Delegates from 165 countries discussed how to further strengthen international cooperation to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases and to respond to climate change impacts.
EU
Speeches
EU Policy documents on Climate Change
Background documents
OECD
"Working Together to Respond to Climate Change": Annex I Expert Group Seminar in Conjunction with the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development from 27-Mar-2006 to 28-Mar-2006
Putting Climate Change Adaptation in the Development Mainstream (Policy Brief) 22-Mar-2006. Climate change poses a serious challenge to social and economic development. Developing countries are particularly vulnerable because their economies are generally more dependent on climate-sensitive natural resources, and because they are less able to cope with the impacts of climate change.
Climate Change and the OECD, speech by Mr Akasaka, UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal 09-Dec-2005.
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development " on 1 December 2005.
Annex I Expert Group presents 6 new reports at the UN Climate Change Conference, Montreal 06-Dec-2005.
"Aiming for Earth-friendly Development", by Kiyotaka Akasaka, OECD Deputy Secretary-General 12-Jan-2005 Opinion article by Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka, "Aiming for Earth-friendly Development", appeared in The Japan Times, 20 December 2004.
New releases from the OECD Development and Climate Change project 16-Aug-2004. The overall objective of the project is to provide guidance on how to mainstream responses to climate change within economic development planning and assistance policies, with natural resources management as an overarching theme.
World Bank
Environment & Development, Reaching for a double dividend, Paul Wolfowitz, President, World Bank Group, December 20, 2005
Irish Government
National Climate Change Strategy
The functions of the Environmental Protection Agency in relation to climate change include monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and the administration of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
The Royal Irish Academy has established an Irish Committee on Climate Change addressing national climate concerns and promoting research in Ireland on global climate change.
UK Government
The Stern Review was commissioned by the British Treasury to investigate the economic impacts of global climate change. Led by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economics Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, the Stern Review concluded that countries can expect to lose more than 5% GDP every year if climate change is not tackled now. By contrast, the Review estimated that the cost of averting crisis will cost as little as 1% GDP per year.
NGO’s, Civil Society Organisations, Private Sector & Research Institutes
International Launch of the G8 + 5 Legislators, Business Leaders, and Civil Society, Climate Change Dialogue, Looking Beyond 2012, February 24, 2006, a network of legislators from around the world – joined COM+: The Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development, to jointly launch an ambitious three-year dialogue on Climate Change, Looking Beyond 2012, focused on agreeing to alternatives beyond the Kyoto Protocol.
Climate change could kill millions of world’s poorest- A staggering 182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone could die of disease directly attributable to climate change by the end of the century, warns a new report from the development organisation, Christian Aid. As climate change brings warmer and wetter weather in Africa, diseases like malaria, chorela and dengue fever will become more common and widespread on the continent. Many millions more throughout the world face death and devastation due to climate-induced floods, famine, drought and conflict. Andrew Pendleton, climate and development analyst at Christian Aid says that climate change is now threatening development goals for billions of the world’s poorest people – with a clear danger that recent gains in reducing poverty will be thrown into reverse in coming decades.
Climate change ’will hit Africa hardest’ - Urgent action must be taken in order to prevent Africa from bearing the brunt of global warming, a scientific conference on climate change was told today according to a report by the International Institute for Environment & Development
Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Least Developed Countries (LDCS), by Saleemul Huq, Atiq Rahman, Mama Konate, Youba Sokona and Hannah Reid (April 2003)
GRIAN is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) established to support Irish public action on climate and climate change.
Website of the PEW Centre on Global Climate Change, US non-profit, non-partisan, independent organisation established in 1998 by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
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