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Index insurance and climate risk: prospects for development and disaster management

This publication takes a fresh look at the effectiveness of index insurance for reducing poverty and better managing climate risk. It provides case studies from India, Malawi, Ethiopia and the Mekong Delta which show that index insurance can effectively target a range of critical climate/poverty issues.

(International Research Institute for Climate and Society: 2009) More info >>

Global sectoral industry approaches to climate change: helping or harming?

In this paper the author assesses the two types of sectoral approach advocated by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development: voluntary sectoral target setting and sectoral industry technology co-operation against the criteria of environmental effectiveness and global equity. (Oxfam: May 2009) More info >>

Climate change and ecological assets in Southeast Asia

Australian research team members worked with scientists and policy makers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam to develop and evaluate a systematic process for making conservation policy that takes climate change, regional social and ecological attributes, and poverty reduction into consideration, in South East Asia (SEA). (CSIRO AusAID Research for Development Alliance: 2009) More info >>

Climate wrongs & human rights: putting people at the heart of climate-change policy

This Oxfam briefing paper addresses the issue of why it is essential to put human rights at the centre of climate-change policy making. (Oxfam: Sept 2008) More info >>

Australia's climate change policy

This policy document outlines the Australian Federal Government's policy on climate change. (Prime Minister and Cabinet: 2007) More info >>

Australian climate change policy & its implications for AP6 countries

This paper summarises the Australian climate change policy, the initiatives, activities and experiences with key policies. (Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets: 2007) More info >>

A prosperous low carbon future

This WWF action plan sets out policies and measures to affordably reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, 30% below 1990 levels by 2030. (WWF: 2006) More info >>

Priorities for a Living Australia

This paper sets out WWF's key Federal policy proposals for the next Australian Government to tackle dangerous climate change and build environmental resilience. (WWF: 2007) More info >>


 

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