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  Energy revolution: a sustainable world energy outlook

  Greenpeace International, 2007

  This report discusses the need for a change in the energy sector towards sustainable technologies such as renewable energies sources and efficient decentralised cogeneration.
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  Greening the greys: climate change and the over 50s

  Climate Talk, 2007

  Known as the baby boomers, this report reveals that the population aged 50-64, have the highest carbon footprint in the UK compared to other age groups. The authors argue that whilst their understanding of the full range of impacts of climate change is often limited, the majority of the over 50s are motivated about climate change.
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  International trade in biofuels: good for development? and good for environment?

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  This briefing argues that biofuels can help tackle climate change problems and improve rural employment and livelihoods. They may also help diversify energy portfolios, ameliorate trade balances and improve air quality. There are however limitations and problems with biofuels.
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  Bringing developing countries into the energy equation

  Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, 2006

  This compilation of articles on energy and climate change is a selection of contributions from the first edition of Regards sur la Terre, an annual reference in French on the international dimensions of sustainable development.
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  Biofuels for transportation: global potential and implications for sustainable agriculture and energy in the 21st Century

  Worldwatch Institute, 2006

  This paper explores the potential of biofuels in reshaping agricultural development and addressing climate change.
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  Seeing the light: adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change.
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  Putting gender in southern African sanitation policies

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Access to sanitation is a universal need and a basic human right. However, 2.4 billion people – 40 percent of humanity – still have no access to sanitary means of excreta disposal, and 2.2 million people die annually from diarrhoea. Women and girls suffer most, but still gender is not mainstreamed in sanitation planning and implementation.
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  No energy security without climate security

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This brief prepared by the WWF for the 2006 G8 meeting in St. Petersburg argues that energy security is interlinked with climate change.
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  The energy challenge for Pacific island countries

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  This brief explores the affordable energy challenges faced by Pacific Island Countries (PICs) as a result of their small size and geographically-remote locations.
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  Linking trade, climate change and energy

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2006

  This collection of issue briefings highlights the links between international trade, climate change and energy. The report covers the following topics:

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