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    Greenhouse gas market 2012: new markets, new mechanisms, new opportunities

    International Emissions Trading Association, 2012
    This annual flagship publication by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) provides a comprehensive guide to the latest developments in global carbon markets, bringing together market specialists in a series of expert contributions. The report notes that global carbon markets have continued to grow in 2012 despite difficulties in core markets in the European Union.
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    The climate investment funds: in action

    African Development Bank, 2012
    The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) provides developing countries with concessional loans, equity, grants and risk mitigation instruments to leverage financing from multilateral banks, the private sector and other sectors. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is one of the five implementing agencies for the CIF concessional funds to Africa; this report is AfDB’s first semi-annual report on the CIF.
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    Estimating cost elements of REDD+ in Tanzania

    The UN-REDD Programme and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, 2012
    This study on cost elements of REDD+ in Tanzania is based on data from four REDD+ and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) projects in Tanzania, in addition to an assessment of institutional costs of REDD+ at central government and district levels.
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    Green carbon, black trade: illegal logging, tax fraud and laundering in the world's tropical forests

    GRID Arendal, 2012
    Between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, central Africa and south east Asia is being carried out by organised crime, thus threatening efforts to combat climate change, deforestation, conserve wildlife and eradicate poverty.
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    The scope for reducing emissions from forestry and agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2012
    This paper assesses the prospects of mitigating climate change through emission reductions from forestry and agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon.
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    REDD+ in Vietnam: integrating national and subnational approaches

    Forest Trends, 2012
    According to this report, it is still unclear how a future mechanism on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) may be implemented in practice, and in particular how to design REDD+ to deliver ecosystem conservation and restoration in an economically efficient and socially sustainable way.
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    Financing options to support REDD+ activities

    Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le Developpement, 2012
    This report provides an overview of REDD financing options, explains the agreements reached at Cancun and Durban, and outlines the issues that remain to be negotiated if REDD is to succeed. It explains in detail the problems associated with REDD, such as baselines, permanence and leakage, and looks at the various financing proposals.
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    Lessons from REDD+ readiness implementation experience in the Republic of Congo: getting ready for REDD+ under uncertain, national circumstances

    Congo Basin Forest Fund, 2012
    This report presents lessons learned from readiness activities in the Republic of Congo towards reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+). The report reveals progress in technical and scientific capacity building and institutional strengthening.
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    Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF)

    The Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF) was launched in 2008 with a grant of £100 million from the governments of the UK and Norway to develop the capacity of the people and institutions of the Congo
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    Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation: a synthesis report for REDD+ policymakers

    Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, 2012
    The long-term viability of REDD+ depends on altering business-as-usual activity in sectors currently driving greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forests. This synthesis report investigates drivers of deforestation and forest degradation.

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