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  Beyond the baseline: large scale climate friendly development

  2005

  This article investigates two cases of large scale, development-neutral projects in China and South Africa that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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  Equity in climate change

  Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, 2005

  Globally the impacts of climate change are likely to disproportionately harm developing nations despite the fact that these nations have contributed little to cumulative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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  Tropical forestry and carbon sequestration

  Tropbio Group, 2001

  This paper examines strategies for carbon sequestration, and how this is provided for under the Kyoto Protocol, with particularly attention to Malaysia's carbon sequestration strategies. Carbon sequestration is a significant technique that plays a major role in bringing down global warming.
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  Could wood combat climate change?

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  Combating human-induced climate change is a key challenge of this age, and requires a wide range of concerted actions. Preferential use of wood products can make a positive contribution - both in terms of mitigating the negative effects of climate change and fostering sustainable development.
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  Quo vadis, Kyoto? Pitfalls and opportunities

  Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2005

  This paper was delivered as the keynote address presented at the Civil Society Outreach of the G8 meeting of Environment and Development Ministers, held on the 17-18 March 2005 in Derby, UK. The paper discusses the creation of greenhouse gas emission reductions as an economic good through permit trading schemes.
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  Sustainable development in Africa: is the climate right?

  International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, 2005

  This paper proposes that much better management of climate variability is essential if sustainable development is to be achieved in Africa.
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  Transportation and greenhouse gas emissions: exploring opportunities for the clean development mechanism in Chile

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2004

  This paper summarises a project undertaken by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Development Consultants and the Center for Clean Air Policy, examining possible scenarios for using the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a tool to promote sustainable development in Chile’s transportation sector.Through three different case studies, examining bicycle inf
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  Harnessing international agreements for energy security in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Climate Network Africa, 2003

  This report details the proceedings and outcomes of a workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2003, examining energy security in Sub-Saharan Africa.The report highlights the fact that one of the key reasons why sustainable development has not been achieved within East Africa is due to poor access to cleaner domestic and commercial energy.
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  Toolkit: integration of biodiversity concerns in climate change mitigation activities

  German Federal Environmental Agency, 2004

  This toolkit provides a practical guide on designing climate change mitigation activities. The toolkit aims to enhance synergies between climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation policies.The first part of the toolkit gives an overview of possible climate change mitigation activities, especially in the land use, land use change and forestry sector.
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  Impacts of greenhouse and local gases mitigation options on air pollution in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area: valuation of human health effects

  Centro de Estudios Macroeconomicos de Argentina, 2002

  This paper aims to understand the possible health-related benefits of reducing and containing greenhouse and local gases (GHG) emissions in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The study extrapolates three scenarios into the year 2012, and analyses trends in health-related expenditure that emerge as a result of long-term exposure to GHG emissions.

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