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    Indian climate policy: Delhi Seminar towards an alternative position

    Delhi Science Forum, 2009
    This paper argues that a clearer idea of trends in the global negotiations are emerging, and it does not make a pretty picture. Leading industrialized countries (ICs), including the “green” Europeans, have been backtracking for several months now on earlier commitments to undertake deep emission cuts.
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    Climate change adaptation in India

    International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 2004
    This paper analyses climate vulnerability in Rajasthan and proposes methods of prioritising watershed projects according to their vulnerability. It argues that when addressing climate change adaptation in India hot-spots or critical regions of climate vulnerability will need to be identified.
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    The economics of climate change adaptation in India

    South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2010
    The failure of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009 emphasized the limitations of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation as a singular policy response to climate change and highlighted the urgent need to design effective adaptation strategies. Current GHG mitigation efforts seek to limit the global average temperature rise to 2 degrees centigrade.
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    Climate change risk: An adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities

    Environment and urbanization, 2008
    This paper considers the needed adaptation and mitigation agenda for cities in India – where the urban population is likely to grow by around 500 million over the next 50 years.
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    Dispute settlement at the WTO: the developing country experience

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
    The WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) provides a singularly effective mechanism by which WTO members can seek the full implementation of previously negotiated trade concessions. This publication aims at exploring strategies to enhance the participation and legal capacity of developing countries in WTO dispute settlement. The study notes that: 
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    Shaping climate resilient development

    Global Environment Facility, 2009
    This paper presents an assessment of climate risks from the existing climate as well as from a range of scenarios.
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    Social protection of older people

    Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
    Despite the growth and extent of social protection programmes (SP) in both developed and developing countries, most emerging economies have systems that are only just coming into existence.  Subsequently, only a small portion address the specific vulnerabilities and needs of older people.This paper:
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    China, India, South Africa, Brazil (BASIC): Crucial for the global environment. Commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

    ECON Pöyry, 2011
    This study, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, aims to assess why and how the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) are important for the global environment. The study shall also provide an overview of environmental policy in the BASIC countries.
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    Demographic transition and the regulatory shortcomings of Brazil’s social security

    National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
    In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly  and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while the workforce will be shrinking.
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    The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
    This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population (classified by gender, ethnic group, age group, place of residence and income stratum) as a means of helping to pinpoint the areas in which efforts must be redoubled

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