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Invasive Alien Species and Climate Change - International Union for Conservation of Nature Issues Brief November 2017

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Invasive alien species (IAS) are animals, plants or other organisms that are introduced into places outside their natural range, negatively impacting native biodiveristy, ecosystem services or human well-being. IAS are one of the biggest causes of biodiversity loss and species extinctions and are also a global threat to food security and livelihoods. IAS are compounded by climate change. Climate change facilitates the spread and establishement of many alien species and creates new opportunities for them to become invasive. IAS can reduce the resilience of natural habitats, agricultural systems and urban areas to climate change. Conversely, climate change reduces the resilience of habitats to biological invasions. It is essential that IAS be incorporated in to climate change policies. This includes biosecurity measures to prevent the introduction of IAS to new regions as a result of climate change, and rapid response measures to monitor and eradicate alien species that may become invasive due to climate change.

Ecosystems, climate change and development scenarios, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Archie, Kelli M

Blaschke, Paul M.

Gual, Carles Martinez-Almoyna

Jackson, Bethanna

Komugabe-Dixson, Aimee

Livesey, Chris

Loubser, Dave

Maxwell, Deb

Rastandeh, Amin

Renwick, James

Weaver, Sean

Zari, Maibritt Pedersen

The current study continues the PEBACC project in Vanuatu. It builds on an earlier PEBACC study that undertook a baseline ecosystem and socio-economic resilience analysis and mapping appraisal of the Port Vila Metropolitan area. The methodology approach adopted provided for mainly desk-top review work, supplemented by four key workshops (including one in Port Vila), interviews with Port Vila stakeholders, and brief field inspection in Port Vila.

Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

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Maurizio Tiepolo, Alessandro Pezzoli, Vieri Tarchiani

This book presents the most recent results of a research started at the end of 2011 in Africa South of the Sahara and then extended to the whole tropics. The focus of our work is climate planning. With this term, we mean all those plans to limit climate change (mitigation and sustainable action plans), to protect human settlements against its impacts (emergency, risk reduction, adaptation plans, and resilience strategies) and to pursue both the medium-term (municipal development plans) and long-term (comprehensive, general, and master plans) aims.

Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas

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Nadja Kabisch, Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler, Aletta Bonn

This book series Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions is intended to explore the different dynamics, challenges, and breakthroughs in accelerating sustainability transitions in urban areas across the globe. We expect to find as much different and diverse stories, visions, experiments, and creative actors as there are cities: from metropolises to country towns, from inner city districts to suburbs, from developed to developing, from monocultural to diverse, and from hierarchical to egalitarian. But we also expect to find patterns in processes and dynamics of transitions across this diversity. Transition dynamics include locked-in regimes that are challenged by changing contexts, ecological stress and societal pressure for change as well as experiments and innovations in niches driven by entrepreneurial networks, and creative communities and proactive administrators. But also included are resistance by vested interests and sunken costs, uncertainties about the future amongst urban populations, political instabilities, and the erosion of social services and systems of provision. And finally there are the forming of transformative arenas, the development of coalitions for change across different actor groups, the diffusion and adoption of new practices, and exponential growth of sustainable technologies. For this series we seek this middle ground: between urban and transition perspectives, between conceptual and empirical, and between structural and practical. We aim to develop this series to offer scholars state-of-the-art theoretical developments applied to the context of cities. Equally important is that we offer urban planners, professionals, and practitioners interested or engaged in strategic interventions to accelerate and guide urban sustainability transition frameworks for understanding and dealing with on-going developments, methods, and instruments. This book series will lead to new insights into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face by not returning to old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments that are based on shared principles of a transitions approach. Based on concrete experiences, state-of-the-art research, and ongoing practices, the series provides rich insights, concrete and inspiring cases as well as practical methods, tools, theories, and recommendations. The book series, informed by transition thinking as it was developed in the last decade in Europe, aims to describe, analyse, and support the quest of cities around the globe to accelerate and stimulate such a transition to sustainability. To sum up, the book series aims to: Provide theory, case studies, and contextualized tools for the governance of urban transitions worldwide Provide a necessary and timely reflection on current practices of how transition management is and can be applied in urban contexts worldwide Further the theorizing and conceptual tools relating to an understanding of urban sustainability transitions Provide best practices of cities across countries and different kinds of cities as well as across policy domains in shaping their citys path towards sustainability

Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

Juha I. Uitto, Jyotsna Puri, Rob D. van den Berg

Pacific Climate Change Roundtable Report

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SPREP

The Pacific Climate Change Roundtable 2017 was made possible with the collaborative support, coordination and financial assistance of the following key partners: · Federal Republic of Germany Foreign Office · Government of Australia · CSIRO · The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) The success of the PCCR belongs with the participants which represented Pacific island government focal points, national and sub-national government representatives, key stakeholders including civil society, non-government organisations, private sector and those integrated across cross-cutting sectors involved in climate change and resilient development in the region. The 2017 PCCR will be the last such meeting in its current format and will be succeeded in 2018 by the Pacific Resilience Meeting. Acknowledgment of the Government of Switzerland is duly noted for its past generous support towards the PCCR from 2008 to 2015.

Joint Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Roundtable Meeting Report

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SPC

SPREP

UNISDR

The FRDP and PRP have an inclusive approach and are committed to working through a collective effort, linking climate change and disaster risk management. The FRDP and PRP also represent a risk informed approach to development guided by the principles of the Framework for Pacific Regionalism. The role of the proposed Taskforce is particularly important and will be supported by a support unit and technical working groups. The challenge is translating the FRDP into practical actions and resource mobilisation. As espoused in the FRDP inclusivity is important, however large groups can be hard to operate and the challenge ahead is how stakeholders move together for practical actions that benefit the region. The key messages are integration of the two communities of practice; and mainstreaming community based disaster risk management. On implementation it was acknowledged that no agency can do the work alone and must involve different stakeholders and their respective strengths.

Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change (PEBACC) Newsletter - Issue 2 (March 2017)

Biodiversity Conservation

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PEBACC

This quarterly newsletter is an initiative to share information on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), a pragmatic and sustainable option for securing resilience in social and ecological systems impacted by climate change.

A region at risk - The human dimensions of climate change in Asia and the Pacific

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Asian Development Bank

The Asia and Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Unabated warming could significantly undo previous achievements of economic development and improvements of living standards. At the same time, the region has both the economic capacity and weight of influence to change the present fossil-fuel based development pathway and curb global emissions. This report sheds light on the regional implications of the latest projections of changes in climate conditions over Asia and the Pacific. The assessment concludes that, even under the Paris consensus scenario in which global warming is limited to 1.5°C to 2°C above preindustrial levels, some of the land area, ecosystems, and socioeconomic sectors will be significantly affected by climate change impacts, to which policy makers and the investment community need to adapt to. However, under a Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario, which will cause a global mean temperature rise of over 4°C by the end of this century, the possibilities for adaptation are drastically reduced. Among others, climate change impacts such as the deterioration of the Asian water towers, prolonged heat waves, coastal sea-level rise and changes in rainfall patterns could disrupt ecosystem services and lead to severe effects on livelihoods which in turn would affect human health, migration dynamics and the potential for conflicts. This assessment also underlines that, for many areas vital to the regions economy, research on the effects of climate change is still lacking.

Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change (PEBACC) Newsletter, Issue 3 - (June 2017)

Biodiversity Conservation

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PEBACC

This quarterly newsletter is an initiative to share information on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), a pragmatic and sustainable option for securing resilience in social and ecological systems impacted by climate change.

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