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Climate Change and Human Development in Viet Nam
2007This paper examines the implications of climate change on human development in the context of Viet Nam.DocumentUN-REDD Viet Nam Programme: Piloting Participatory Carbon Monitoring
2011This policy brief outlines participatory carbon monitoring (PCM) pilots in Viet Nam. Developing countries undertaking REDD+ activities will need to provide evidence of “results-based action” in order to receive payments for the reduction of carbon emissions or the enhancement of terrestrial carbon stocks.DocumentSummary Report on Initial Findings: Feasibility Study on Storm Resistant Housing Credit Scheme and Livelihood Development for Poor Households in Da Nang City
2011This report presents initial findings from a study that examined the feasibility of a storm resistant housing credit programme and livelihood training for female-headed households managed by the Da Nang City Women’s Union. The report has been produced by the Asian Cities Climate Change Network (ACCCN).DocumentBiodiversity and Development of the Hydropower Sector: Lessons from the Vietnamese Experience
International Centre for Environmental Management, 2010Climate change prompts policymakers to pursue a low carbon energy pathway in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, this can lead to trade-offs with other sustainability objectives. This policy brief outlines key issues relating to biodiversity and the development of the hydropower sector in Vietnam. It is aimed at informing policymakers, civil society and donors.DocumentAdaptive Social Protection in Rwanda: A No-Regrets Approach to Increased Resilience in a Territorial Planning Context
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011This paper will highlight the potential for Social Protection (SP) policies and programs in Rwanda to increase household and community resilience by lowering vulnerability and increasing the capacity for poor and vulnerable households, by explicitly integrating SP with Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). SP/DRM/CCA have a lot in common, but they have historically bDocumentCarbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services: exploring multiple benefits for Ecuador
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2011The government of Ecuador is addressing deforestation and pressure on forests by scheduling a REDD + high quality mechanism that maximizes the benefits to the climate, environment and people.DocumentKalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership
CARE International, 2011This policy brief, produced by Care International, outlines a bilateral Reduced Emissions form Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) pilot project – the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). The KFCP project aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation of peat swamp forest by mitigating the frequency and severity of fire, protecting existing peat land and rewetting and rDocumentAn institutional analysis of biofuel policies and their social implications: lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012This paper examines how developing countries have attempted to promote rural development through biofuel production, what social outcomes those strategies have created and what lessons can be learned. This is done by comparing the contexts of Brazil, India and Indonesia; three countries with important agricultural sectors that have put large-scale biofuel programmes in place.DocumentPlanning and costing adaptation of perennial crop farming systems to climate change: Coffee and banana in Rwanda
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011The study objective of evaluating and costing the most suitable climate change adaptation measures responding to the Rwandan Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, 2008-2012, in which climate change and its adverse impacts were recently identified as a high priority.DocumentRising global interest in farmland: can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?
World Bank, 2011This paper analyses issues that affect the role of agriculture as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods and environmental services.Pages