Response to Climate Change: A Legal Study in Context of Developing Countries

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PARTICULARS	Page No
1. Introduction
1.1. Background	01
1.2 Objective	02
1.3. Brief of Methods	03
1.4 Contribution of the study	04
1.5. Outline of paper	04
2. Literature Review
2.1. Types of Climate Change and climate change strategy model	05
2.2. Typology models of climate change strategy	07
2.3. Continuum models of climate change strategy	08
3. List of Climate Change Issues, Policies, Legislation, Institutions And International              Conventions In Bangladesh
3.1 Key Climate Change Issues	09
3.2 Climate Change Policies	09
3.3 Legislation Related to Climate Change	10
3.4 Climate Change Institutions	11
3.5 International Conventions/Treaties/Protocols (ICTPs) in the Field of      Environment to which Bangladesh is a Party	11
4. Climate change impacts on Developing Countries
4.1 Observed changes in climate	13
4.2 Observed impacts of climate change on the natural and human        environment.	14
4.3 Future impacts of climate change on developing countries	15
4.4 Impacts of climate change on poverty and development	16
4.5 Climate change and development	18
4.6 Climate change and the Millennium Development Goals	18
4.7 Costs and benefits of climate change	20
4.8 Costs and benefits of climate change mitigation	21
4.9 Costs and benefits of climate change adaptation	22
4.10 Impacts of climate change and climate policies on local economies in        developing countries	23
5. Climate change adaptation in developing countries
5.1 Review of current funding mechanisms for adaptation in developing countries	24
5.2 The link between adaptation and development	25
5.3 Funding for adaptation and poverty reduction in developing countries	27
5.4 Capacity building, data availability and research	27
6. Recommendations and Conclusion
6.1 Recommendations	29
6.2 Conclusion	31
Bibliography	32-34

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