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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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  Reality Checks Mozambique. Building better understanding of the dynamics of poverty and well - being. Year four, 2014. Sub-Report, District of Lago

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  A series of five “Reality Checks in Mozambique” will take place in the period 2011-2016, focussing on the dynamics of poverty and well-being with a particular focus on good governance, agriculture/employment/ climate and entrepreneurship that are key result areas in Swedish development cooperation with the country.
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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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  A “Delphi Exercise” as a tool in Amazon Rainforest valuation

  World Bank, 2014

  The Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown.
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  Can adoption of improved maize varieties help smallholder farmers adapt to drought? evidence from Malawi

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015

  This study used a three-year panel data set for 350 Malawian farm households to examine the potential for widespread adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties, a technology that holds considerable promise for helping smallholder farmers in SSA adapt to drought risk.
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  Climate-smart landscapes: multifunctionality in practice

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2015

  This book explores four central propositions on climate-smart and multifunctional landscape approaches: A) Current landscapes are a suboptimal member of a set of locally feasible landscape configurations; B) Actors and interactions can nudge landscapes towards better managed trade-offs within the set of feasible configurations, through engagement, investment and interventions; C) Climate is one
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  Corruption risks and experiences in REDD+ financial benefit sharing mechanisms

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014

  The success of REDD+ hinges on providing forest users with positive monetary and nonmonetary incentives or benefits that both motivate behavioral change regarding forest use and help offset the various costs associated with implementing REDD+.
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  What we have lost and cannot become: societal outcomes of coastal erosion in southern Belize

  Ecology and Society, 2015

  Countries in the Caribbean region, including Belize, are vulnerable to coastal erosion. Experts and scholars have assessed the effects of coastal erosion in the region in physical and economic terms, most often from a sectoral perspective. However, less attention has been directed to the localized and nonquantifiable effects of coastal erosion in the region.
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  Forest carbon rights and corruption: what donors can do to minimize the risks

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015

  Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about forest tenure, carbon rights determine who can make decisions about REDD+, who can benefit, how and to whom the carbon is sold, and under what circumstances. Debates about forest carbon rights are strongly linked to debates about equity in REDD+.
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  The foreign policy of carbon sinks: carbon capture and storage as foreign policy in Norway

  Science Direct, 2014

  Norway is among a handful of countries with an explicit policy to promote carbon capture and storage (CCS) at both national and international levels. This paper investigates the internal and external driving forces behind Norway's efforts to advance CCS as a global climate change mitigation option.

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