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    Measuring environmental action and economic performance in developing countries

    Green Growth Knowledge Platform, 2015
    This study reviews the existing body of work on the impact of environmental policies on economic performance in both developed, and, where available, developing countries.
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    Building resilience to environmental change by transforming gender relations

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014
    This briefing is based on a workshop which brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss why gender relations are still largely absent from debates on climate change and disasters, what misconceptions may exist, and to define the broad lines of a forward-looking action research agenda.
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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: education, climate and environment

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This Topic Guide provides expert knowledge on the relationship between education, climate and environment. In particular, it outlines:
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    Trees and livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    Karamoja is a dryland sub-region in north-east Uganda, where 82% of the population live under the poverty line. It is troubled by climate variability and climate change, where floods and droughts have had a particularly detrimental effect.
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    Trees and watershed management in Karamoja, Uganda

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    Karamoja is a dryland sub-region in north-east Uganda, where 82% of the population live under the poverty line. It is troubled by climate variability and climate change, where floods and droughts have had a particularly detrimental effect.
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    FOCAC: Addressing joint environmental challenges?

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2012
    Cooperation on environmental challenges has been an instrumental part of the first Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) since its inception in 2000. With increasing levels of economic interactions and political cooperation, environmental concerns have become increasingly important.
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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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    REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies

    World Rainforest Movement, 2015
    The complexity of REDD initiatives from another perspective.
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    Loss and Damage to Ecosystem Services

    United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2014
    This working paper highlights loss and damage to ecosystems from climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (2014) indicates that adaptation options for ecosystems may be more limited than for human systems and consequently loss and damage both to ecosystems, and to ecosystem services, may be expected.

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