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    Regional Strategy on Climate Change (Central America)

    2010
    The Central American Integration System (SICA) is conformed by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama presents its Regional Strategy on Climate Change. The first chapter shows an overview of the dynamics that characterise climate change, the origin and basis of the phenomenon from a historical responsibility and its implications for life and development.
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    Poor people’s energy outlook 2010

    Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2010
    Many people in the world still lack access to electricity and rely on traditional biomass and coal for cooking. According to this report, energy poverty is critically undermining the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The publication sets out to reconnect policy with people by bringing together a more textured picture of energy access.
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    REDD+ and community forestry: lessons from an exchange of Brazilian experiences with Africa

    World Bank, 2012
    This publication is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the design of national strategies to reduce deforestation and forest degradation while contributing to the wellbeing of forest-dependent communities.
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    Cambio climático y desarrollo: Advertencias y oportunidades para la producción de agrocombustibles

    Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2009
    El Salvador y la región centroamericana en general, apuntan hacia una expansión en la producción de agrocombustibles, reforzando el interés de posicionarse en mercados emergentes vinculados con la reducción de emisiones de carbono, bajo una nueva generación de acciones de mitigación del cambio climático.
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    Prioritizing food security and livelihoods in climate change mitigation mechanisms: Experiences and opportunities for smallholder coffee agroforestry, forest communities and REDD+

    Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2011
    This policy brief examines mechanisms to change land use patterns in order to reduce carbon emissions, or promote carbon capture and storage in the light of new research on smallholder coffee agroforestry, recent evidence on sustainable forest management, and experiences with reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation, forest conservation, sustainable management of forests, and the enhan
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    Compensation for ecosystem services: Directions, potentials and pitfalls for rural communities

    Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2011
    Payment for environmental services has rapidly gained worldwide attention as an instrument for promoting conservation and addressing rural poverty, nevertheless, the practice has demonstrated that these schemes have important limitations.
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    Designing public sector interventions to mobilise private participation in low carbon development: 20 questions toolkit

    Overseas Development Institute, 2012
    This paper outlines the goals of low carbon development (LCD) and why public sector interventions are needed to mobilise the private sector to become involved in it. The paper lays out a ‘20 questions toolkit’ for stakeholders involved in designing public and private sector interventions at the project and programme level.
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    Towards climate finance transparency

    Publish What You Fund, 2012
    International funding and technology transfer are crucial for creating climate change mitigation and adaption opportunities. This paper, jointly published by aidinfo and Publish What You Fund, calls for transparency in climate finance flows, harmonisation between climate change and aid transparency practices, and learning and collaboration between different stakeholders.
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    Forest management and climate change: stakeholder perceptions

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is currently developing guidelines to assist forest managers to understand, assess and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. To facilitate the development of the guidelines, FAO conducted an online survey of forest stakeholders between May and July 2011.
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    UNEP year book 2012: emerging issues in our global environment

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    The United Nations Environment Programme's year book for 2012 shows that we are facing a number of environmental challenges, although scientists and policy makers have made headway on addressing some of the most pressing issues through new discoveries and investments.

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