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1. Title

   Water and climate dialogue: adapting to climate change

   Description

   This document discusses the impacts of climate change in relation to water resources management and recommends the need for adaptation in management of water. It provides an overview of key issues in water management and highlights actions that can be taken to adapt to climate change and its effects on water resources. This document was published by UNESCO in 2011.

   Publisher

   United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

   http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=211591&set=53C527CB_3_37&gp=1&lin=1&ll=1

2. Title

   Weeding risk: financial impacts of climate change and water scarcity on Asia's food and beverage sector: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

   Description

   This report identifies the potential financial impacts arising from climate change and water scarcity on publicly listed companies in the food and beverage sector in South and Southeast Asia. It focuses on domestic companies that process and package foods and non-alcoholic beverages in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. It examines the impacts on agricultural inputs, operating efficiency and reputation for aquaculture, beverages, confectionary, dairy/poultry, edible oils, starches and sugar.

   Author

   Dana Krechowicz; Shally Venugopal; Amanda Sauer; Sandeep Somani; Shipra Pandey

   Publisher

   World Resources Institute (WRI)

   http://www.wri.org/publication/weeding-risk

3. Title

   Winds of change: East Asia's sustainable energy future

   Description

   This report demonstrates that countries in the East Asia region can move to a sustainable energy path, despite the challenges of rapid economic growth accompanied by rapid urbanization, and presents policy tools and financing mechanisms to advise these countries on how best to reach this goal, primarily through a low-carbon development model. Chapters include regional energy challenges, energy scenarios, unacceptable environmental damages and growing energy, improved environment and enhances security and transformative policy tools and financing mechanisms. This report was published by The World Bank in 2010.

   Author

   Xiaodong Wang; Noureddine Berrah; Subodh Mathur; Ferdinand Vinuya

   Publisher

   The World Bank Group

   https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2483

4. Title

   Woodfuels and climate change mitigation: case studies from Brazil, India and Mexico

   Description

   This paper examines the scope and potential for wood fuels to replace fossil fuels thereby contributing to climate change mitigation in Brazil, India and Mexico. It also analyses the potential for and implications of wood fuel development for climate change mitigation and presents the current woodfuel offset mechanisms in place and their relative emissions reduction potentials.

   Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1639e/i1639e00.pdf