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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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  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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  Renewable energy technologies in developing countries: lessons from Mauritius, China and Brazil

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2006

  Although the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) could see billions of dollars invested in the development of renewable energies in developing countries, this report argues that successful development of viable markets in renewable technologies is highly dependent on context-specific factors.This report looks at the context-specific factors behind the success of three renewable energy development
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  Why ignore tropical deforestation?: a proposal for including forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocol

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This paper argues that though greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the principal causes of global warming, tropical deforestation is responsible for 20 to 25 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions.
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  Adapting to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  For many years, scientists have been predicting the impact of climate change. In Latin America and the Caribbean, predictions range from water shortages to an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. The effects of climate change could significantly reduce the ability of ecosystems to operate properly, threatening development projects throughout the region.
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  Financing energy efficiency: lessons from recent experience with a focus on Brazil, China and India

  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Minsk, 2006

  Without gains from energy efficiency efforts, China, India and Brazil are projected to more than double their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in a single generation, resulting in major impacts on the global energy system and climate.
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  Climate debt: making historical responsibility part of the solution

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This publication from Friends of the Earth argues that with regard to climate change, historical responsibility for emissions means that compensation based on climate debt should be added to a rights-based approach for determining fair shares of environment space.
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  Can the clean development mechanism attain both cost effectiveness and sustainable development objectives?

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2001

  This paper looks at both the back ground of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and discusses to what extent its current design allows it to achieve both its objectives as defined in the Kyoto Protocol: to promote sustainable development in host developing countries, and to improve global cost-effectiveness by assisting developed countries in meeting their Kyoto targets.The first part of the
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.

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