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    Global Energy Security: South African Energy Policy and G8 Petersburg Declaration on Global Energy Security

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2007
    South Africa faces many of the same energy sector challenges as expressed in the Petersburg Declaration, although, South Africa faces additional challenges that developing countries face.
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    UK–South Africa Relations and the Bilateral Forum

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2011
    The South Africa-UK Bilateral Forum was established in 1997 to regulate and enhance political and economic relations between South Africa and the UK. The thematic priorities for the Forum include conflict prevention, counterterrorism and counter-proliferation, climate change, and migration, as well as ‘fostering strong, sustainable, open and inclusive economies’.
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    The South African Renewables Initiative: Advancing South Africa’s Low Carbon Industrial and Economic Strategy

    2010
    South Africa’s current industrial policy aims to diversify the nation’s technological and industrial base beyond traditional dependence on mining, mineral processing and agriculture, by improving competitiveness and output in upstream engineering and ‘nearby’ industries such as transport machinery and food processing. This paper sets out the case for enhancing South Africa’s industrial and broade
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    Africa Progress Panel

    The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their in
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    Multi-model climate change projections for India under representative concentration pathways

    Indian Academy of Sciences, 2012
    Climate projections for the preparation of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are made using the newly developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) under the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5).
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    Brazil’s Role in Environmental Governance: Analysis of Possibilities for Increased Brazil-Norway Cooperation

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2011
    This report examines the role played by Brazil in connection with certain international negotiations, such as the climate negotiations and the CBD. It identifies the driving factors that have influenced environmental politics and standards in Brazil, and take note of conflicts that must be discussed when Norway is seeking expanded cooperation with Brazil.
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    An evaluation of India's national action plan on climate change

    Centre for Development Finance, 2012
    This report evaluates the design of India’s eight climate missions developed using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008. The report aims to provide policy makers, academics and researchers, civil society groups and other stakeholders a snapshot of the climate missions.
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    Information for climate change adaptation: lessons and needs in South Asia

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012
    Good information is essential to making wise decisions in a changing climate. However, uncertainty of climate change impacts and the complexity associated with climate vulnerability, alongside other issues, make the adaptation information agenda unclear.
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    A practical framework for planning pro-development climate policy

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    MCA4climate is an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which provides practical assistance to governments in preparing their climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies.
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    From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional Cash transfers in welfare state Development in Latin America

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
    Since the early 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. CCTs share three components in common: a cash transfer, a targeting mechanism, and conditionality.

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