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    Opportunities, risks and recommendations for unconventional gas in China’s environmental transformation

    Overseas Development Institute, 2015
    This paper analyses literature on the risks and opportunities posed by shale gas in China, and also what policy environment could maximise the opportunity and minimise the risk.  It also analyses China’s current policies and practice to understand whether the conditions for greener growth are in place.
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    The G77 and China in the climate change negotiations: a leaky umbrella?

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    From its origins in 1964,the Group of 77 (G77) has evolved in both its composition and agenda focus. From the initial 77 countries that made the first Joint Declaration at the conclusion of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) the membership has grown to over 130 member states representing the geo-political South.
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    The G77 + China’s role in trade multilateralism: advocating for South agency

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Developing countries have for several decades sought to align their aspirations and collectively express their interests in global fora. The largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries, the Group of 77 and China (hereafter G77), marked its 50th jubilee in June 2014.
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    Anticipating the South African tenure in the Chair of the G77: the context and contours

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    South Africa has a precious opportunity to use the chairpersonship of the G77 to help transform the agency of the global south from making lofty undertakings to taking concrete measures to implement what has been agreed. It has the opportunity to strengthen the G77 secretariat by attracting more financial resources and ensuring sound and efficient management systems are in place.
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    Multilateral development cooperation: what does it mean for South Africa’s foreign policy?

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    As South Africa looks to consolidate its approach towards international development cooperation, decision makers will be faced with new challenges in reconciling policy implementation with identified principles. In March 2013, the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) hosted a working roundtable focusing on multilateral development cooperation and South Africa’s foreign policy.
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    The Durban BRICS Summit: partnership for development and integration proceedings report

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The media hype and international attention that centered on Durban during the fifth BRICS Summit (26–27 March 2013) has faded.
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    No credit due: World Bank and IMF in Africa

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2008
    This paper seeks to explain the policy-based lending progamme of the World Bank (WB), and the significance of its engagement with developing economies. The paper concludes with a clarion call, for a political approach to economics.
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    Korea and South Africa: building a strategic partnership

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2009
    In an era of global financial crisis and shrinking economies, it has become more urgent and more important for South Africa’s foreign policy to focus on international engagements that produce clearly defined commercial advantage in the national interest.
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    In the shadow of previous COPS: COP17’s mixed bag of outcomes

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    Depending on perceptions, South Africa either had the enviable or the unpleasant task of organising, hosting and ensuring a credible outcome for the 17 th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP).
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    What future for BASIC? The emerging powers dimension in the international politics of climate change negotiations

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    In Copenhagen 2009, the UNFCCC climate negotiations saw the rise of the emerging powers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) as they assumed a leading role in realizing the final outcome in the shape of the Copenhagen Accord.

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