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Understanding Adaptation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• Reports on adaptation

Global Environment Facility

• Global Environment Facility is an independent financial organization that provides grants to developing countries for projects that benefit the global environment and promote sustainable livelihoods in local communities.
• Division of Global Environment Facility Co-ordination Work on Climate Change
• Adaptation
• Renewable energy investment opportunities in emerging markets

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Working Group II Report: "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"
  • Full report
  • Summary for Policy Makers (Group II) [PDF]

United Nations Development Programme

• Report on "Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation"

United Nations Environment Programme

• "Technology Without Borders Report": case studies of technology transfer

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

• Defining adaptation
• Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change [PDF]
• Technology Information Clearing House TT: Clear helps users find information on technology transfer projects and programs, case studies of successful technology transfer, etc.

World Bank

• Renewable energy sources

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