Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Development and Climate Change - Background Papers

Links between Development and Climate Change

• Rajendra Pachauri
  Climate Change and its Implications for Development: The Role of IPCC Assessments

Mainstreaming Climate Responses: Thematic Perspectives

Mountain and high latitude systems

• Madan Lall Shrestha and Arun Bhakta Shrestha
  Recent trends and potential climate change impacts on glacier retreat/glacier lakes in Nepal and potential adaptation measures
• Bruno Schaedler
  Climate Change Issues and Adaptation Strategies in a Mountainous Region: Case Study Switzerland
• Pierre Chevallier, Bernard Pouyaud and Wilson Suarez
  Climate Change Impact on the Water Resources from the Mountains in Peru
  

Islands/coastal systems

• Kanyathu C. Koshy
  Environment and Sustainable Development: Pacific SIDS Context
• Mohamed El Raey
  Adaptation to Climate Change for Sustainable Development in the Coastal Zone of Egypt
• James G. Titus
  Maps that Depict the Business-as-Usual Response to Sea Level Rise in the Decentralized United States of America
  

Development Infrastructure

• P. R. Shukla, Manmohan Kapshe and Amit Garg
  Development and Climate: Impacts and Adaptation for Infrastructure Assets in India
• Pierre-Alain Roche
  The Seine River Flooding in the Isle-de-France Region: What Account is Taken of Climate Change in the Decision-Making Process?
• Regis Juvanon du Vachat
  Adaptation to Heat Waves Occurence in France
  

Agriculture, Rural Development and Forestry

• Walter E. Baethgen and Daniel L. Martino
  Mainstreaming Climate Change Responses in Economic Development of Uruguay
• Prabhu Pingali
  Climate Change and Food Systems
  

Mainstreaming Climate Responses in Development Assistance

• US AID (paper presented by Emmy Simmons)
  U.S. Approaches for Integration of Climate Change Policies and Development Assistance
• OECD Issues Paper
  Mainstreaming Climate Responses in Development