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 Marshall Islands National Nuclear Commission

The NNC published a Research Protocol and Media Ethics as a guideline for researchers and journalists who are interested in learning more about the Marshall Islands Nuclear Legacy.

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Published by the National Nuclear Commission as a guideline for researchers and study abroad instructors who are doing research on the Marshall Islands Nuclear Legacy.

 Make Poverty History

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific, has in recent years lost about one metre of land around the circumference of its largest atoll due to changes in storm conditions and rising sea levels. Tuvalu is one of the world’s lowest lying countries, with its highest point standing a mere four and a half metres above sea level. Half of Tuvalu’s population of 11,000 people live just three metres above sea level

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Physical Description: 32 p.

 International Organizations for Migration

As early as 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human migration—with millions of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption.3 Since then, successive reports have argued that environmental degradation, and in particular climate change, is poised to become a major driver of population displacement—a crisis in the making.

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Physical Description: 64 p.

 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The main purpose of this paper is to help policy makers,
particularly those in developing countries, think about the national policy instruments needed to contribute to the
fight against climate change, how such needs can be articulated in order to seek internal and external financial resources and how these needs may be reflected in negotiations of a future climate change agreement. This paper is an input to a series of workshops which the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will organize in developing countries with the aim of improv-