Climate change mitigation
Supporting efforts to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases
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- DETERring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: environmental monitoring and law enforcement
- J. Assunção; C. Gandour; R. Rocha / Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
- This study asks: which specific policy efforts contributed most to the reduction in Amazon deforestation? The paper, which evaluates the impact of monitoring on deforestation, focuses on DETER, a satellite-based system for real-time d...
- Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?
- A. Bolin; L. Lawrence; M. Leggett / Global Canopy Programme, 2013
- This paper argues that legal reform of land tenure will not take place fast enough to enable developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through REDD+. It highlights that a global agreemen...
- The policy climate
- Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
- This report offers an overview of climate change policy issues across the world. It focuses on: 1) Brazil, China, India, Europe and the United States, which represent the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions but vary widely in ...
- Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa
- R. Ondhowe / United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2013
- Africa has a huge untapped potential for generating clean energy, including enough hydroelectric power from its seven major river systems to serve the whole continent’s energy needs, as well as great potential for solar energy, w...
- Decision support tool: Integrated REDD+ accounting frameworks: nested national approaches
- Lowering Emissions in Asia's Forests, 2013
- Carbon accounting and incentive allocation frameworks are a central component of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and in structuring these frameworks, decisions need to be made over how to reach REDD+ obje...
- Mitigating disasters — a promising start
- J. Maurice / The Lancet, 2013
- A ten-year United Nations plan to make the world safer from natural disasters went into effect in 2005. With 2015 nearing, countries are now assessing how well it has worked. The Hyogo Framework for Action spelled out what all countri...
- Comprehensive report detailing multi-sector trade opportunities and enabling conditions in the transition to a green economy
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportu...
- Pioneering renewable energy options: Thailand takes up the challenge
- L. Weischer / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
- Thailand’s support policies for renewable energy (RE) in the power sector have allowed individual small projects to add up to something substantial, attracting more investment and leading to faster growth in the sector than in mo...
- Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales
- C. M. Stickler / Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2013
- Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. This paper argues that feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effec...
- Evaluation of quantitative methodologies for assessing greenhouse gas reductions from cookstove projects
- C. Lee; C. Chandler; M. Lazarus; F. X. Johnson / Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
- With an estimated 2.6 billion people relying on traditional biomass for cooking and heating, improved efficiency of cookstoves could provide greenhouse gas emission reductions in excess of one billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent...
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