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    South Africa and the Durban climate change negotiations: the role of business

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    Business engagements in COP 17 were informed by past, present and future predictions with regard to movements in the climate negotiations space. The call to have business involved in climate change negotiations can be traced to the G8 Gleneagles Summit of 2005. The G8 Summit drew up the Gleneagles Plan of Action on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development.
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    Truth-telling by Third-Party Audits and the Response of Polluting firms: Experimental Evidence from India

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    In many regulated markets, firms choose and pay private, third-party auditors, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by reforming the system of environmental audits for industrial plants.
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    Trade liberalization, local air pollution, and public health in Tunisia: assessing the ancillary health benefits of pollution abatement policy

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Since the middle of the last century, Tunisia is embarked in an ambitious trade reform program aiming to improve its integration in the world economy; however, the risk is to amplify output in sectors intensive in energy in a country where energy is still subsidised.
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    The geography of trade and the environment: the case of CO2 emissions

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    According to recent theoretical developments, there are three key channels through which trade affects the environment: the first is via its effect on the scale of economic activity, the second is via a composition effect and the third is via a technical effect. This paper argues that, in addition to these traditional factors, the geography of international trade flows does matter.
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    Climatescope 2013: new frontiers for low-carbon energy investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    Latin America and the Caribbean should be a natural home for clean energy investment. The region is blessed with exceptional natural resources, ready to be harnessed by photovoltaic, wind, geothermal and other clean energy technologies.
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    India's energy system transition - survival of the greenest

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The transition to a clean and green energy system is an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging.
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    Investment Liberalization and Facilitation toward AEC 2015

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    The paper examines the state of investment liberalization and facilitation in the Philippines and suggests policy measures to enable the country to comply with its ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 commitments.
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    Environmental Aspects of a Potential Philippines-European Union Free Trade Agreement

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    This paper focuses on the environmental aspects of a potential Philippines-European Union Free Trade Agreement (PH-EU FTA). Potential environmental issues in the negotiation of such an FTA (if at all undertaken) are identified to better prepare the Philippine negotiating panel and equip them with information and analysis to make well-informed positions on such issues.
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    Green brick technology transfer to Malawi: market assessment report for setting up Vertical Shaft Brick Kilns (VSBKs)

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    In Malawi, increasing demand for housing has put tremendous pressure on the building material sector, resulting in deforestation, rising costs and poor quality construction.Malawi holds potential for the adoption of green building materials. Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania have expressed interest in clean construction technology transfer.The way forward:
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    South-south technology transfer low carbon building technologies: inception report

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This high rate of urbanisation puts tremendous pressure on the entire building material sector. With constraints in supply of material both the quality of material (brick) and the application (house) has degrade d to an alarming extent resulting in poor quality and increasing construction costs. Most often it has reached beyond the means of common beneficiaries.

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