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    Low carbon growth country studies – getting started: experience from six countries

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2009
    This document is a review of the low carbon growth studies conducted in six emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa. These countries, with the help of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), have initiated country specific studies to assess development goals in conjunction with greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities.
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    REDD+ and community forestry: lessons from an exchange of Brazilian experiences with Africa

    World Bank, 2012
    This publication is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the design of national strategies to reduce deforestation and forest degradation while contributing to the wellbeing of forest-dependent communities.
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    Sustainable development through policy integration in Latin America: a comparative approach

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
    The challenge of Latin American countries today is that they too need to translate socioeconomic development objectives into a model that maintains ecosystem services, biodiversity and low carbon emissions to support Earth Stewardship.
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    Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
    This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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    America's water agenda: targets, solutions and the pathways to improving water resources management

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2012
    Developed through a two-year dialogue among regional stakeholders, this Agenda diagnoses the current situation and principal challenges facing water management in the Americas, and proposes 11 time-bound targets for action under six themes: access to water and sanitation for all; climate change adaptation; integrated water resources management (IWRM); food security; energy and water; and the quali
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    Developing Countries' Trade Vulnerabilities to EU Climate Policies

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011
    The European Union (EU) aims to take a lead in combating climate change and, as such, experiences a higher intensity of carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns. The EU is, however, an important export market for many developing countries, and BCAs implemented by the EU could therefore have a large impact on these countries.
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    The political economy of climate change and development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Climate change financing initiatives have emerged as a prominent part of international development activities through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and it has become evident that political factors are vital in ensuring that the international initiatives achieve both their climate change and development objectives.
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    Community answers to climate chaos: getting climate justice through the UNFCCC

    Christian Aid, 2009
    This paper gives suggestions of how a successful deal can be made at the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009. It argues that during the conference world leaders must agree on a global response to climate change that will shield the world, its economy and its people from the threat of climate chaos.
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    Responding to the risks from climate-related disasters

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Climate-related risks come not only from direct exposure to natural hazards such as floods or droughts, but also from the vulnerability of social and economic systems to the effects of these hazards. Responses to these risks should combine two approaches: short-term measures to react to hazards when they occur, and structural reforms that enhance the capacities of communities to adapt.
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    Could agriculture help to prevent further climate change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There is growing evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity contribute to climate change. Many people blame modern farming practices for accelerating this - agriculture produces between 16.8 and 32.2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But could agriculture also hold some solutions to climate change?

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