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  REDD Integrity: An evidence based approach to anti-corruption in REDD+

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015

  Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) have emerged as a means to address deforestation trends in developing countries and related emissions of forest carbon. Governance and corruption challenges facing REDD+ are widely acknowledged to be daunting both in their scale and severity.
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  Topic guide: a guide to national governance of climate finance

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  This new Topic Guide provides an up-to-date understanding of the current national modalities designed to mobilise, manage and channel climate finance for investment in adaptation and mitigation initiatives.
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  Loss & Damage Associated with Climate Change: The Legal and Institutional Context in Bangladesh

  Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative, 2013

  Need for adequate national policies and legal frameworks: case study from Bangladesh
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  National-level corruption risks and mitigation strategies in the implementation of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An overview of the current situation

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015

  The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the first REDD+ target countries due its huge forest ecosystem potential. Since 2011, the country has been creating key pieces of legislation as well as implementing REDD+ readiness activities and making pilot investments to mitigate some of the key drivers of deforestation and forest degradation identified in the country.
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  Climate change policy in the MENA region: prospects, challenges, and the implication of market instruments

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011

  Given its harsh climate and fragile ecosystems, the MENA region is vulnerable to the physical impacts of climate change; yet, given its high dependency on hydrocarbon resources, the region is also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change response measures. This paper addresses some crucial aspects in relation to climate change policy and its impacts in the MENA.
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  Greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for international shipping

  Öko-Institut e.V. - Institute for Applied Ecology, 2015

  The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests that in 2050 global greenhouse gas emissions need to be 40 to 70% below their 2010 levels in order to prevent a global temperature increase of more than 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels.
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  This must be the place: underrepresentation of identity and meaning in climate change decision making

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2011

  Article emphasising the need for climate-related science and decision making to incorporate important notions of place and identity.
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  A cost effective and powerful climate policy: pioneers pave the way

  2015

  The climate problem requires changes in every country and across almost all sectors. For us to have a realistic chance at limiting global warming to 2°C, emissions must be cut by around 60% between 2014 and 2050, and towards the end of this century, greenhouse gas emissions need to be close to zero.
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  India's GHG emissions profile: result of five climate-modelling studies

  Integrated Research and Action for Development, 2009

  Anthropogenic climate change poses perhaps the most complex policy issue faced yet by the global community, moreover, one that is fraught with existential consequences for humankind at one level, and with major implications for the future division of global economic labour at another.
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  The time is now: proceedings of the international workshop on sustainable and climate resilient urban development 8-9 September 2010, New Delhi

  Integrated Research and Action for Development, 2013

  Climate change and urbanisation: The combined two processes represent some of the most fundamental challenges nations and indeed the world must face over the coming decades. For the first time in human history, more than 50% of the world now lives in urban areas.

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