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    Towards REDD+ Integrity: opportunities and challenges for Indonesia

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become a cornerstone of Indonesia’s forest sector policies. Given corruption risks in the sector, a number of policies and initiatives – both specifically linked to REDD+ and to broader national reform efforts – have been launched to ensure that risks of corruption in REDD+ are minimised.
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    Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

    The Council on Energy, Environment and Water is an independent, not-for-profit policy research institution.
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    Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)

    KOICA was founded in1991, with a mission to fight against global poverty and has the goal of being Korea’s dedicated grant aid agency.
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    Biodiversity for sustainable development: delivering results for Asia and the Pacific

    United Nations Development Programme, 2014
    This book focuses on biodiversity work in the Asia-Pacific region. It presents results, stories and photographs on innovations in monitoring endangered species, creating protected areas and managing them better, adapting to climate change, improving community livelihoods and energy efficiency, and diversifying crops.
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    Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: 2014 assessment

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2015
    This quadrennial Assessment was prepared by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) for the Parties to the Montreal Protocol. The Assessment reports on key findings on environment and health since the last full Assessment of 2010, paying attention to the interactions between ozone depletion and climate change.
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    On target for people and planet: Setting and achieving water related Sustainable Development Goals

    International Water Management Institute, 2014
    This report cautions against an overly rigid approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which it argues could limit development options for poor countries, particularly in how they are able to manage critical water resources.
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    Green brick technology transfer to Malawi: market assessment report for setting up Vertical Shaft Brick Kilns (VSBKs)

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    In Malawi, increasing demand for housing has put tremendous pressure on the building material sector, resulting in deforestation, rising costs and poor quality construction.Malawi holds potential for the adoption of green building materials. Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania have expressed interest in clean construction technology transfer.The way forward:
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    Promoting resource efficiency along the supply chain of key sectors: stimulating knowledge partnership in South Asia

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    Rapid development coupled with high population growth in South Asia has led to unsustainable use of natural resources resulting in serious environmental and social problems. These problems may constraint growth
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    Energy access as a business opportunity in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This paper serves as a background for a workshop on “Best practices in decentralized renewable energy access: sharing knowledge for renewable energy enterprise development” hosted by the IRENA jointly with the Asian Development Bank, Department for International Development and the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), June 2014 in Manila, Philippines, as part o
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    China's regional carbon emissions change over 1997-2007

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    The increased demand for energy in China has generated concomitant increase of carbon emissions, which poses an unprecedented challenge to China’s, and even global, sustainable development. In this paper, from the perspective of provincial carbon emissions, the authors analyse China’s carbon emissions changes during 1997-2007 based on the index decomposition analysis method.

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