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  • Organisation

    Amazon Watch

    Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organisations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial de
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    Biofuel production and the threat to South Africa's food security

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
    As biofuel production continues to expand rapidly all over the world, there is increasing concern about how this will affect food prices, particularly of foodcrops used to produce biofuels.
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    ADB's Dams and Development E-paper: a reservoir of knowledge on dams

    Asian Development Bank, 2005
    Asian Development Bank's Dams and Development E-paper provides useful information and easy access to international policies, frameworks, principles, strategies, and case studies on dams. It seeks to generate discussion on the future of dam projects by making available to project planners and decision-makers materials on emerging issues and recent trends.
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    Energy and Environmental Concerns for Zambia (EECZ)

    EECZ is a grouping of researchers, academics and policy makers involved in the promotion and development of sustainable energy in Zambia. Their objecives include:
  • Document

    Climate change: a guide to the scientific uncertainties

    Centre for Policy Studies, UK, 2007
    This paper argues that the science being presented to justify climate change is filled with uncertainty and mitigation policies being proposed are based on science that is yet to be proven. It acknowledges three certainties:
  • Organisation

    Energy Transition Task Force

    The Netherlands-based Energy Transition Task Force has the mandate to establish a national Transition Action Plan which - in concrete and operational terms - will answer the following questions:
  • Document

    Criteria for sustainable biomass production

    Energy Transition Task Force, 2006
    This report describes the results of work that has been done by the “Sustainable production of biomass” project group on formulating sustainability criteria for the production and processing of biomass for energy, fuels and chemistry.
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    Analysing our energy future: some pointers for policy-makers

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2007
    This report is a summary of the International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook. It focuses on its Alternative Policy and Beyond the Alternative Policy Scenarios – a deliberate distinction aimed to spur action by underscoring the impacts on the future of the policy decisions made today.
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    Biofuels for climate change mitigation: international trade issues for the G8+5 countries

    Georgetown University, 2007
    This paper focuses on international trade issues that are arising due to increased interest in biofuels.
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    Regional energy integration in Africa: a report of the world energy council

    World Energy Council, 2005
    Access to modern energy services is critical for socio-economic development. This paper states that reliable energy supply is a prerequisite to economic growth, job creation, enhancement of value-added economic activities and support for income-earning activities, especially in rural areas.

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