China and Climate change
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Beijing - Population:
1330044000 - Size:
9596960.0 Km2
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- The Adaptation Learning Mechanism
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- China’s Climate-Change Policy 1988-2011: From Zero to Hero?
- I. Stensdal / Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
- This report describes the evolution of China’s domestic climate-change policy over the period 1988-2011, using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to explore the policy change. Policy development has been gradual, with the mo...
- NAMAs in Brazil, China, India and South Africa
- H. van Asselt; J. Berseus; J. Gupta; C. Haug / Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010
- Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs...
- The challenges of securing women's tenure and leadership for forest management: the Asian experience
- M. Buchy / The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
- This collection of analyses spotlight cases and interviews with prominent women activists involved in natural resource management in Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines and China to better understand the diverse challenges faced by Asia...
- China: improving the local-central climate governance nexus
- F. Teng / Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainab, 2012
- China's national energy and carbon intensity targets are well known, as are the central government’s commitments to low carbon development. The recent low carbon policy developments in China have relied primarily on Nationally A...
- An analysis on the short-term sectoral competitiveness impact of carbon tax in China
- X. Wang / Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainab, 2010
- Market-based instruments (particularly carbon tax) offer a level of cost-effectiveness that has recently drawn the attention of the Chinese government. However, there is little research focusing on the short-term impact on sectoral co...
- New market mechanisms: prerequisites for implementation
- W. Sterk / Wuppertal Institute, 2012
- The Durban conference decided to establish a new market based mechanism that is to cover a broad segment of a country’s economy. The question is, however, which developing countries would actually be able to implement such a mech...
- Improving the assessment of disaster risks to strengthen financial resilience: a special joint G20 publication by the Government of Mexico and the World Bank
- World Bank, 2012
- This publication by the Government of Mexico and the World Bank brings together the experiences of G20 countries in protecting their populations and assets against natural hazards. It includes contributions by G20 members and invited ...
- Sustainable forest management by indigenous peoples and local communities
- The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
- This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identi...
- Role of Policy and Institutions in Local Adaptation to Climate Change Case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
- N. S. Pradhan / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, 2012
- The research question that the study addresses is: How do political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards in the context of climate change in In...
- Review of low carbon growth studies and a framework for implementation for developing countries
- Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2009
- This document is a review of the low carbon growth studies conducted in six emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa. These countries, with the help of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Progra...
- Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP)
- Founded in 2001, the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP) of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) is a public institution with independent legal status. CAEP provides technical support and services such as environmental planning, environmental policy and consultation on environmental project selection management for the Chinese government and corporations.
