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    A climate of conflicts?

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2015
    Political violence correlates strongly with climate: Civil conflict risk is seven to ten times higher in dry and tropical climates than in continental climate zones. Yet, there is little evidence that climatic variability and change are important in understanding this pattern.
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    Fish carbon: exploring marine vertebrate carbon services

    GRID Arendal, 2014
    In answer to the call by the United Nations to provide innovative solutions to address the climate change challenge and prevent global biodiversity loss, a new report has been produced on the potential of marine vertebrates to fill this void.
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    REDD Integrity: An evidence based approach to anti-corruption in REDD+

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) have emerged as a means to address deforestation trends in developing countries and related emissions of forest carbon. Governance and corruption challenges facing REDD+ are widely acknowledged to be daunting both in their scale and severity.
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    What climate services do farmers and pastoralists need in Tanzania?

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015
    This report presents final findings from the baseline data collection exercise conducted for Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Adaptation Programme in Africa. The GFCS programme, having a focus on agriculture, food security, health and disaster risk reduction, is implemented in Tanzania and Malawi.
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    National-level corruption risks and mitigation strategies in the implementation of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An overview of the current situation

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the first REDD+ target countries due its huge forest ecosystem potential. Since 2011, the country has been creating key pieces of legislation as well as implementing REDD+ readiness activities and making pilot investments to mitigate some of the key drivers of deforestation and forest degradation identified in the country.
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    Monetary incentives to avoid deforestation under the Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD)+ climate change mitigation scheme in Tanzania

    Springerlink, 2014
    The paper estimates and compares the level of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) payments required to compensate for the opportunity costs (OCs) of stopping the conversion of montane forest and miombo woodlands into cropland in two agro-ecological zones in Morogoro Region in Tanzania. Data collected from 250 households were used for OC estimation.
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    A cost effective and powerful climate policy: pioneers pave the way

    2015
    The climate problem requires changes in every country and across almost all sectors. For us to have a realistic chance at limiting global warming to 2°C, emissions must be cut by around 60% between 2014 and 2050, and towards the end of this century, greenhouse gas emissions need to be close to zero.
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    Illegal timber trade and REDD+ Interface in Eastern Africa: A Pilot

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015
    This report is a desk appraisal of the following programme proposal: “Illegal Timber Trade and REDD+ Interface in Eastern Africa: A pilot” (hereafter ‘ITT-REDD’). The programme’s objective is to enhance national and regional capacity to combat the illegal timber and charcoal trade in East Africa.
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    Community-based Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Know-How: Sharing knowledge from practices

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2015
    Community-based monitoring, reporting and verification (CMRV), is the involvement of local people in the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon stocks and other forest data.
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    Towards REDD+ Integrity: opportunities and challenges for Indonesia

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become a cornerstone of Indonesia’s forest sector policies. Given corruption risks in the sector, a number of policies and initiatives – both specifically linked to REDD+ and to broader national reform efforts – have been launched to ensure that risks of corruption in REDD+ are minimised.

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