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    Using indicators for green economy policymaking

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2014
    This paper aims to acknowledge the unique geographical and socio-cultural contexts of individual countries, and provides a step-by-step guide on how to identify and use relevant indicators in designing and implementing green economy policies. It provides examples to illustrate what could potentially be considered as a challenge in a given context and how to address it.
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    South Africa’s green economy transition: implications for reorienting the economy towards a low-carbon growth trajectory

    2013
    The notion of green economies seems to have gained momentum in both developed and developing countries. For South Africa, the transition to a green economy presents a mix of challenges and opportunities.
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    Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP)

    GGBP is a global network of practitioners and policy makers that identifies and shares best practices of green growth planning and implementation from around the world.
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    Green Growth Best Practice: Synthesis of key findings

    Green Growth Best Practice, 2014
    With environmental issues increasingly seen through economic and social perspectives, many governments around the world are now looking to green growth strategies as a way to kick-start and accelerate investment in new technologies and industries.
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    Time to change the game: Fossil fuel subsidies and climate

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This Overseas Development Institute report argues that it is time to 'change the game' on fossil fuel subsidies in order to promote inclusive and green growth. It states that fossil fuel subsidies undermine international efforts to avert dangerous climate change and represent a drain on national budgets.
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    Climate and Development Outlook: Rwanda: Pioneering steps towards a climate resilient green economy

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
    This paper focuses on climate compatible development in Rwanda and the challenges and opportunity which the country faces in working on it . The authors describe a government that is moving from grappling with strategy and policy at a national level, to the practical challenges of implementing sustainable development at the budgetary, sectoral and district levels.
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    Toward the green economy: assessing countries’ green power

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2013
    The green power potential of a country is a central factor in the transformation to a green economy. This paper argues that green power will become a decisive factor for global change. Green power combines sustainability, innovation and power into one concept.
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    Zero carbon Britain: rethinking the future

    Centre for Alternative Technology, 2013
    This report explores how Britain can achieve Carbon neutrality. Building upon the groundwork laid by the Zero Carbon Britain project over the last six years, the authors incorporate the latest developments in science and technology, plus more detailed research in two main areas: balancing highly variable energy supply and demand; and the nutritional implications of a low carbon diet.
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    Laying the foundations for climate resilient development: voices from Africa

    Africa Adaptation Programme, 2013
    This Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) report details the achievements and lessons learned, as told by those who implemented it. It features interviews with representatives from almost every AAP country and seeks to chronicle the successes of the Programme by giving a voice to the people on the ground who made it happen.
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    Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2013 - From shared risk to shared value: the business case for disaster risk reduction

    United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2013
    The 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR13) makes the business case for investing in disaster risk management (DRM) and highlights potential opportunities for creating shared value.

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