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  Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative

  Fride, 2008

  This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial international debates.
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  Brazil and China: South-South partnership or North-South competition?

  Brookings Institution, 2011

  This paper focuses on Brazil-China relations and sheds some light on the possibilities and limits of meaningful coalitions amongst emerging countries.
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  The global South and the international politics of climate change. Proceedings report of the international workshop: negotiating Africa and the global South’s interests on climate change

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2011

  This proceedings report captures the first half of the discussion at COP17 hosted in Durban, South Africa, in 2011 where the role of rising powers within the international climate change negotiations was discussed. Panellists in this report have been drawn from Brazil, India, China and South Africa (BASIC countries) to share their expertise on these multidimensional country positions.
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  Brazil low-carbon country case study

  World Bank, 2010

  Brazil’s commitment to combat climate change had already begun when the country hosted the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Earth Summit, in June 1992.
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  Rising powers, reforming challenges: negotiating agriculture in the WTO Doha Round from a Brazilian perspective

  2011

  This article examines the history of the WTO Doha Round agriculture negotiations from 2001 to 2011 in light of the shifting global balance of economic power. It shows that the rise of China, Brazil and India, among other developing countries, had an impact on the negotiations and affected the negotiating structure, processes and decision-making.
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  International REDD+ architecture and its relevance for India

  Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2012

  Implementing REDD+ at the national and local levels requires improving understanding of the issue and increasing capacity (technical, human and financial) for implementation. Inadequate means of implementation remains a grey area for effective sustainable management of forests (SMF), particularly in developing countries.
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  Energy, water and climate change in southern Africa: what are the issues that need further investment and research?

  Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012

  Regional climate change projections for southern Africa indicate that global warming is likely to lead to greater increases in annual mean temperatures than the global average.
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  Energy [r]evolution: a sustainable India energy outlook

  Greenpeace International, 2012

  This paper is the result of a collaborative effort between Greenpeace, the European Renewal Energy Council and the Global Wind Energy Council. It presents a roadmap to attain a sustainable energy sector in India that ensures continued high economic growth.
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  Harnessing market mechanisms to promote sustainable development: lessons from China

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012

  The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created under the Kyoto Protocol to enable developing countries to sell carbon credits to developed countries.
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  Think piece on aid and development cooperation post Accra and beyond – steps towards a development dialogue for the 21st century: the example of EU, China and Africa

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2009

  This think piece explores some key aspects of the changes taking place in the international aid architecture in terms of the evolving relationships between so-called non-DAC (Development Assistance Committee of the OECD) and DAC donor countries. The paper focuses on the unfolding dynamic between China-Africa and western partners to Africa, such as the European Union (EU).

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