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    Emerging issues in the interface between trade, climate change and sustainable energy

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2005
    In order for countries to meet internationally agreed emissions targets, international trade policy will need to reflect these commitments. This paper argues that the aims of the Kyoto Protocol can be aligned with World Trade Organization (WTO) requirements in most cases. However, rather inflexible WTO trade rules limit the options governments have to integrate climate aspects into trade policy.
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    Generating opportunities: case studies on energy and women

    United Nations Development Programme, 2001
    How can rural womens’ lives be improved through better energy provision? This report looks at gender and energy, and the increased use of renewable energy sources and expanded adoption of clean energy technologies in developing countries. It examines critical policy and programme design options to improve women’s access to energy services, presented in the form of eight case studies.
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    Energy for the poor?: the Clean Development Mechanism

    International Policy Network, 2004
    The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol allows developed nations to generate carbon credits by aiding poor nations to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. This paper aks the question: what if unsuitable CDM projects are based more on the interests and ideology of the wealthy supplier than of the poor recipient?There are two keys to the success of any project in Africa.
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    Industrial efficiency as an economic development strategy for South Africa

    Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2005
    This paper indicates that industrial energy efficiency measures offer the potential to increase profitability and jobs while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and influence other sustainable development goals.
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    China and climate change: the role of the energy sector

    SciDev.Net, 2005
    Climate change is affecting China and China is affecting climate change. Key to the relationship are the nation's booming economy and energy sector.With several climatic zones and sensitive physical environments, China is susceptible to the effects of climate change.
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    How biodiversity and climate change interact

    SciDev.Net, 2004
    This policy brief examines the biodiversity/climate change interface from both sides. The authors firstly explore the impacts of global warming on biodiversity, and then look at how biodiversity affects climate change. Climate impacts on biodiversity can include such things as shifting ecosystem boundaries, sharp increases in the rate of extinction, and more severe pest/disease outbreaks.
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    Beyond the baseline: large scale climate friendly development

    2005
    This article investigates two cases of large scale, development-neutral projects in China and South Africa that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    Equity in climate change

    Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, 2005
    Globally the impacts of climate change are likely to disproportionately harm developing nations despite the fact that these nations have contributed little to cumulative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    The SouthSouthNorth sustainable development appraisal and ranking matrix tool

    SouthSouthNorth, 2005
    This SouthSouthNorth matrix tool can be used to appraise sustainable development of Clean Development Mechanism project activities under the Kyoto Protocol. It has been designed with project developers and host country governments in mind, as a means of appraising and rating projects at the time of project design and approval.
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    In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.

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