Titlebook: Climate Change and Developing Countries; N. H. Ravindranath,Jayant A. Sathaye Book 2002 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002 Gre

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Introduction, fresh water supply, health, etc. According to the recent IPCC scientific assessment, the earth’s climate system has demonstrably changed on both global and regional scales since the pre-industrial era (IPCC, 2001). Further, there is evidence to show that most of the warming (of 0.1 °C per decade) o

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions,ange. The dominant greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO.), methane (CH.) and nitrous oxide (N.O); the major sources of emissions are fossil fuel combustion, land-use change and agricultural activities such as livestock rearing and rice production; and the major sectors responsible for the emissio

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Climate Change: Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation,minant environmental issue for the current generation (UNEP, 1999). The survey, conducted among 200 environmental experts from over 50 countries, including several research scientists, found that 51% of the respondents considered climate change as the major environmental problem facing us today. 29%

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Global Mechanisms for Addressing Climate Change, has been working on diverse global mechanisms to address the twin objectives of the Convention, namely, the stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and promotion of sustainable development. Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a financing mechanism adopted by the UNFCCC, while the Kyoto

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Climate Change: Development, Equity and Sustainability,sil fuels), and the degradation of local and global environments. National and global attention on environmental issues although increasing, remains inadequate, particularly with regard to environmental conservation. According to UNEP (2000), firstly, environmental issues need to be integrated into

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Climate Change and Developing Countries,s) and involves complex interactions between climatic, environmental, economic, political, institutional and technological pressures. Climate change has significant international and intergenerational implications for equity and sustainable development. Further, decision-making and actions to stabil

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Book 2002 scarcity, lead to decline in biodiversity, increase occurrence of vector-borne diseases, cause flooding of coastal settlements, etc. Recognizing the potential threat of severe disruptions, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was organized in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil t