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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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  A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda

  World Rainforest Movement, 2006

  This report documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon National Park in east Uganda, where a Dutch foundation plants trees for the purpose of carbon offsetting.
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  Guidance for promoting synergy among activities addressing biological diversity, desertification, land degradation and climate change

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006

  This report highlights the major biological factors that contribute to ecosystem resilience under the projected impacts of global climate change.
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  Forests and climate change: global understandings and possible responses

  Policy Studies Institute, UK, 2006

  This is the draft report of a scoping study for the Forestry Commission on forests and climate change. The report discusses the role that sustainable forest management can play in mitigating climate change.
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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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  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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  Climate change and forest resilience

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  In this briefing, the authors consider the impact climate change has on forest-based livelihoods.
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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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  Sustainable Asia 2005 and beyond: in the pursuit of innovative policies

  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2005

  This white paper consolidates the primary outcomes of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) policy research for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific region since its establishment in 1998.The paper argues that through buoyant economic development and continuous population growth Asia is exerting exponential pressure on natural resources and the environment and that

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