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The Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI), released by global risks advisory firm Maplecroft, identifies Bangladesh and India as the two countries facing the greatest risks to their populations, ecosystems and business environments, whilst Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan also feature in the highest risk category...
Verisk Maplecroft
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In a bid to reduce local communities' vulnerability to climate change, the pilot project, jointly implemented by UNEP and UNDP, with funding from the Danish Foreign Ministry, has mapped and developed a comprehensive plan for land sustainability and use...
United Nations News Centre
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The site provides transparency about the origin, amount, and use of funds going to developing countries to support action to fight climate change. The organizers hope that the website will provide as much transparency as possible about climate finance before the climate COP in Cancun in late November...
Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
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This declaration was made at the 11th Trilateral Governmental Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea, by the Trilateral Wadden Sea Governmental Council (TWGC) and the ministers responsible for the protection of the Wadden Sea of the Netherlands

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The partners adopted a management plan for the entire Wadden Sea region to support decisive action against a number of invasive alien species and in response to major challenges resulting from the effects of climate change in the coastal area (sea level rise, shore line protection, etc.)...
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
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This declaration was made by the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation and signed by the Governments of Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands at the 11th Trilateral Governmental Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea on 18 March 2010.

Documents and publications

Wadden Sea Ecosystem No. 28.

This report presents the results of the work of Trilateral Working Group on Coastal Protection and Sea Level Rise (CPSL) III that concluded that spatial planning may present a flexible and sustainable tool to deal with the

Documents and publications

Environmental Research Letters, no. 4, 2009:

This paper argues that, in order to prevent changes which will be dangerous for Inuit, a new policy discourse on climate change is required for Arctic regions—one that focuses on adaptation. The paper


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