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Climate change 'may put world at war' (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/23/eaclimate 123.xml By Charles Clover, Environment Editor Last Updated: 12:01am BST  23/04/2008 \\ Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting ...
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Climate Disasters a Significant Possibility, Says Nobel Laureate Steve Chu (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
Climate Community November 3, 2008 In: Business, Science, Policy, Media, Social & NGOs http://www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com/getinformed/news/climatedisastersas ignificantpossibilitysaysnobellaureatestevechu.html Since the IPCC report came out in 2007, new data point to even more alarming scenarios. We ...
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Global Environment Facility Offer to Facilitate Adapatation Programs after Bali (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.gefweb.org/interior.aspx?id=20034#id=18430  Bali{}, November 30, 2007\ The world's largest environmental funding body, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), stands ready to build on its past experience working with the most vulnerable ...
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Maldives Considers Buying Dry Land if Seas Rise (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: November 10, 2008 The presidentelect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its ...
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New money to mitigate disaster Southern Africa (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79436 JOHANNESBURG, 24 July 2008 (IRIN) In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction ...
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New U.N. Pact May Be Needed For Climate Victims (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://planetark.org/environews/item/50774 POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) The world may need a new U.N. pact to compensate victims of climate change or risk a tangle of billiondollar lawsuits linked to heatwaves, droughts and rising seas, a study said on Wednesday. The report ...
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Report, People on the Move, Reducing he Impact of Human Migration on Biodiversity (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://worldwildlife.org/phe/migration/peopleonthemove.cfm  Summary: Although there is no blueprint for action there are many possible ways to reduce the environmental impacts, such as working in areas of origin to encourage people to stay, in areas of destination to reduce impacts when they do migrate, and at the policy ...
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