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    International requirements for transparency of mitigation actions

    Energy Research Centre, 2014
    This report argues that transparency of mitigation actions is an important element of the climate change regime, as negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The focus of this report is to provide a concise description of the outcomes of the negotiations on transparency under the UNFCCC and their implications for South Africa.
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    Agriculture and climate change mitigation in the developing world

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014
    This paper argues that agricultural activities in the developing world which directly contribute to the current anthropogenic forcing of the global climate, and indirectly through forest clearing and degradation, constitute a quarter of the total global climate forcing from all sources.
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    Wither multilateralism? Implications of bilateral NAMA finance for development and sovereignty concerns of developing countries

    Development and Mitigation Forum, 2014
    This paper looks at financial flows supporting climate action and concludes that when flowing through bilateral initiatives and private support, they may affect developing countries in three ways: Firstly, it is argued that the acceptance of bilateral support for actions, particularly with explicit and stated mitigation objectives, weakens the negotiating stance of developing countries for &lsq
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    Low-carbon development pathways for a sustainable India

    World Wildlife Fund, India, 2014
    This report argues that India can achieve a low-carbon development pathway, with appropriate policies being implemented, without significantly decreasing development ambitions.
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    Development and Mitigation Forum

    The Development and Mitigation Forum was hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 27 – 29 January 2014.
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    Energy poverty and climate change mitigation in Ghana: An economic assessment

    Development and Mitigation Forum, 2014
    Produced for the Development and Mitigation Forum in Cape Town, January 2014, this paper presents an economic assessment of energy poverty and climate change mitigation in Ghana. The paper summarises the current state of energy use, related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy poverty, and mitigation, and estimates their likely trends and subsequent future impacts.
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    City-level climate change mitigation and adaptation

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Latin American cities are under increasing pressure from rapid urbanisation, while current impacts and potential threats from climate change are further exposing municipal vulnerabilities. City planners are responding to these twin pressures with innovations in climate-related policies and are making big strides in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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    REmap 2030: A renewable energy roadmap

    International Renewable Energy Agency, 2014
    This report offers a roadmap to double the share of renewable energy by 2030, based on a bottom-up analysis of official national sources. The roadmap encompasses 26 countries representing and not only focuses on technologies, but also on the availability of financing, political will, skills, and the role of planning.
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    Climate adaptation: Seizing the challenge

    World Economic Forum, 2014
    This report argues that nations and communities will need to adapt while at the same time seeking mitigation solutions to climate change. It highlights an increase in the interest of the policy, business and academic communities to the challenge of adaptation and sees it as something that will need to be continued as more people feel the impacts of climate change.
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    Role of domestic court and international arbitration in ensuring climate justice in Bangladesh

    2013
    Recently, an international Arbitration Tribunal, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), decided in favour of the ‘climate victims’ of Bangladesh against international gas extracting company, NIKO, and due to that decision, it will now be possible for the domestic courts of Bangladesh to hear the pending money suit on compensation.

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