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Unlocking Africa’s clean energy potential
( C. de Gouvello;F., B. Dayo;M. Thioye / The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit , 2008)
This study aims to evaluate sub-Saharan Africa’s potential for clean energy projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. It also looks at the technical opportuniti...

Carbon financing and carbon market processes: a guide for Indigenous communities

( I. Barnsley / Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University, , 2008)

Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate...

Can donors supporrt environmental objectives General Budget Support?
( N. Bird; L. Cabral / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2007)
This paper examines how environmental objectives are pursued by donors in a context where aid delivery mechanisms are changing. It cites General Budget Support (GBS) as an example of an increasingly ...
Environmental regulation and development : a cross - country empirical analysis
( Susmita Dasgupta; A Mody; S. Roy; D. Wheeler / New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank , 1995)
Paper develops comparative indices of environmental policy and performance for thirty-one countries, using a quantified analysis of reports prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environment an...
Workshop on Capacity Development in Environment: Tools and Challenges: Rome, Italy 4-6 December 1996
( Development Assistance Committee, OECD , 1999)
Environmental capacity means the ability of individuals and societies to respond effectively to environmental problems. Helping to develop this capacity has become a major strategic goal for developme...
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
( Convention to Combat Desertification , 1994)
Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.

Also available from the CCD WWW site in Fre...

GIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report
( J. Ronald Eastman; James Toledano / Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona , 1996)
The GIS technology transfer approach described here addresses the issue of sustainable technology transfer in a development setting. It was prompted by a growing discontent within the development comm...
Assessment and monitoring of forest and tree resources
( R. Persson; K. Janz / World Forestry Congress , 1999)
The interest for better information about forest resources is growing at both national and international level. Demands for new types of information are now frequently being raised ...
Scaling up Participatory Watershed Development in India: The Case of the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP)
( J. Farrington; C. Lobo / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI , 1997)
For several years prior to the full start-up of the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP), its architects were driven by one principal concern: that participatory watershed development s...
An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor
( K.N. Ninan / Danish Institute for International Studies , 1998)
The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Proje...

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