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    Social innovation as a tool for enhancing women's resilience to climate change: a look at the BRICS

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2016
    The BRICS countries face both the challenges of developing nations in facing climate change and bear the responsibility of the developed ones. These countries have been leaders for the developing world in climate negotiations and have taken responsibility and action to reduce their contribution to the problem.
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    Rising powers, lowering emissions?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016
    The importance of ensuring that African countries can meet their rising energy needs in a low-carbon way that also benefits the poor, is widely accepted.
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    Who drives climate-relevant policies in the Rising Powers?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016
    The future of human life on our planet is influenced increasingly by what goes on in the rising powers. This report presents a political economy analysis of their policies, comparing China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
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    Real-time evaluation of Norway's international climate and forest initiative. Literature review and programme theory.

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016
    The report presents findings of a baseline for a new wave of real time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). Two separate but closely connected studies have been conducted following an extensive literature review, workshops, and interviews.
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    Cropping frequency and area response to climate variability can exceed yield response

    Nature [journal], 2016
    The researchers have used evidence from Mato Grosso, Brazil, to show that changes in agricultural output stemming from the sensitivity of cropland area and cropping frequency to interannual climate variability are of similar magnitude to agricultural output changes associated with the sensitivity of crop yield to interannual climate variability.
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    Human rights and resource conflicts in the Amazon

    Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2015
    The Amazon comprises the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world. Numerous indigenous peoples have traditionally inhabited this region, and 25 percent of its total land area is formally recognised as indigenous territories. Such territories are an effective means of protecting the forest.
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    Adaptation to climate change in megacities of Latin America

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    There is broad consensus that global climate change is inevitable. Its effects are manifested, among others, in a rise in average annual temperatures, the impacts of which also affect Latin America. Since Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the world’s most urbanized regions, urban spaces provide an important research area.
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    Mapping tree plantations with multispectral imagery: preliminary results for seven tropical countries

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2016
    Tree plantations continue to expand worldwide to meet demand for timber, wood fiber, fruits, and vegetable oils such as palm oil. Many countries report national statistics on the area of land in plantations, but the extent and locations of these plantations are often not documented.
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    Policy reform for sustainable energy in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Organization of the American States, 2004
    This article describes the potential of sustainable energy technologies including renewables and energy efficiency to significantly reduce fossil fuel use for electricity production in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    Models for financing clean infrastructure in middle income countries

    Climate Policy Initiative, 2015
    Many rich countries can rely upon sophisticated financial systems, established regulation and policy, a large pool of institutional investors and governments with relatively strong financial positions to help them meet the infrastructure investment needs of their relatively slow growing economies.

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