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  Environment and development decision making in Africa 2006-2008

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008

  The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is the primary ministerial level forum for environment and development issues in Africa. It has helped launch various environmental initiatives at the regional level, and these have greatly influenced environmental policy in Africa.
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  Another inconvenient truth

  Oxfam, 2008

  Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. However, this Oxfam Briefing Paper argues that they are not be a solution to either, and instead are contributing to a third: the current food crisis.
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  Energy development and climate change: decarbonising growth in South Africa

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2007

  Not only does South Africa have an extremely energy-intensive economy based primarily on coal, leading to relatively high emissions, but it simultaneously faces a host of daunting development challenges, exacerbated by the legacy of apartheid.
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  A study on gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development: what we know about the extent to which women globally live in a more sustainable way than men, leave a smaller ecological footprint and cause less climate change

  Gender and Environment /Genero y ambiente, 2007

  To what extent do women live more sustainably than men, leave a smaller ecological footprint and cause less climate change? This ideas paper studies what we know about gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development.
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  Gender and equity issues in liquid biofuels production - minimizing the risks to maximize the opportunities

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2008

  The production of liquid biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This results in potential socio-economic benefits, particularly in terms of agricultural employment, but also in risks, which tend to be context-specific.
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  Carbon market opportunities for the forestry sector of Africa

  Winrock International, 2008

  African countries have not benefited greatly from the carbon market. This publication analyses how the implementation of the forestry carbon projects could be a major strategy to combat climate change in Africa.
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  Food and energy sovereignty now: Brazilian grassroots position on agroenergy

  The Oakland Institute, 2008

  Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports, providing 70% of the world's supply in 2006. While official accounts of the Brazilian government’s experiment with biofuels laud it as a global model for sustainable biomass production, it is increasingly being criticised and opposed by national social movements.
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  Making sense of the voluntary carbon market: a comparison of carbon offset standards

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2008

  Carbon offsetting is an increasingly popular means of taking action to reduce carbon emmission, and works through both voluntary and compliance mechanisms. The report discusses the role of the voluntary carbon offset market, and provides an overview and guide to the most important currently available standards, using the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a benchmark.
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  The next genetic revolution?

  The Ecologist, 2007

  In recent years, the biotech industry has put considerable effort into attempting to reposition genetically modified (GM) crops as a non-food, industrial “green” energy commodity. While genetically modified biofuel crops are already a reality in the US, the planting of GM crops in Europe is still very limited due to public resistance.
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  Can payments for environmental services help reduce poverty? An exploration of the issues and the evidence to date from Latin America

  Science Direct, 2005

  Recent years have seen considerable interest in using Payments for Environmental Services (PES) as an incentive to enhance conservation efforts. Latin America has been particularly receptive to this approach with programmes in operation in Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador and Mexico, amongst others.

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