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    Promoting urban green travel

    China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, 2013
    Extensive traffic congestion and air pollution from road traffic in Chinese cities pose significant health and safety threats, compromise operational efficiency, and increase fuel consumption. Factors that contribute to this problem include rapid and extensive urbanization, increased usage of private cars, and the deterioration of good walking and cycling environments.
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    China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED)

    The main tasks of CCICED are exchanging and disseminating international successful experience in the field of environment and development; studying key environment and development issues of China;
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    Deciding over nature: corruption and environmental impact assessments

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2016
    Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are a core aspect of environmental decision-making in most countries. Despite massive potential for public harms resulting from corrupt decision-making linked to EIAs, research on this topic is still very limited.
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    Lack of consultation. Stakeholders’ perspectives on local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016
    Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase local job and business opportunities. This brief presents the main findings from a study of the stakeholders’ assessment of the LCPs the Tanzanian Government has developed.
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    Panama Papers and the looting of Africa

    2016
    On the 3rd of April 2016 the German Newspaper Sud Deutsche Zeitung in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) made an unprecedented release of documents from a database of the Panama based offshor e law firm Mossack Fonseca which is the world’s fourth largest offshore services law firm.
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    Financing technology delivery for SDGs: a way forward for TFM

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    The importance of Science and Technology (S&T) and availability of innovation driven solutions, particularly to mitigate and address sustainability challenges globally has been a central theme in all important global platforms in the recent past including the Rio+20 process that led to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Third International Conference on Financing for Developme
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    India and Sustainable Development Goals: the way forward

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    India along with other countries has signed the declaration on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, comprising of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the Sustainable Development Summit of the United Nations in September 2015. SDGs are comprehensive and focus on five Ps – people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership.
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    Hotter planet, humanitarian crisis: El Niño, the “new normal” and the need for climate justice

    ActionAid International, 2016
    In April 2016, almost a year after the first strong warnings were issued, as water sources dried up and crops withered across much of the world, and as UN humanitarian experts predicted that up to 100 million people would need international humanitarian relief, world leaders met at UN headquarters in New York to celebrate the official signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement.
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    Enhancing the climate resilience of Africa's infrastructure: the roads and bridges sector

    2016
    Roads are a key asset for Africa. They connect villages to economic centers, people to hospitals, children to schools and goods to markets facilitating trade. This report examines the implications of climate change for Africa’s road connectivity, and practical steps that can be taken now to minimize the associated risks.
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    Youth-led accountability for the SDGs

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2016
    The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), have set out an ambitious agenda for global development for the next fifteen years, leading up to 2030. Empowering young people to hold governments and duty-bearers accountable is one of the most important means of implementation for an agenda that “leaves no one behind”.

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