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    Climate Change Finance: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
    Climate change finance is currently estimated at between approximately USD 70 and 120 billion per year. However, these estimates involve a fair amount of uncertainty.
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    Making the forest sector transparent: annual transparency report 2011

    Global Witness, 2012
    This annual report, produced by Global Witness together with a coalition of non-governmental organisations in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia and Peru, assesses whether the right information is being made available to citizens to ensure that they have a say in how their forests are managed.
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    Accommodating the interests of developing countries in the climate change regime: lessons from the ozone layer regime

    African Journals Online - AJOL, 2012
    This article argues that the delay in combating climate change is attributable to various factors, including polarised interests among nations. However, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has managed to balance and reconcile the interests of both southern and northern countries towards a common goal.
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    Framework document on water and climate change adaptation: for leaders and policy-makers in the Asia-Pacific region

    Asia-Pacific Water Forum, 2012
    Water security, especially in the context of climatic change, is recognised as a global security challenge. This framework aims to provide information and advice on climate change adaptation and water resources management for policymakers and decision-makers in the Asia-Pacific region.
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    Governing clean development in least developed countries: do CDM rules promote renewable energy in Ethiopia?

    Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2012
    The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has mobilised significant investment in renewable energy technology around the world. Yet there is a pressing need to reform CDM rules to incentivise renewable energy investment in low-income countries, this paper concludes. The theoretical approach of this study to analysing climate governance processes is grounded in sociological institutionalism.
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    Mainstreaming climate resilience into government: the Philippines' Climate Change Act

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    The Philippines is at high risk from rising sea levels and a projected increase in severe tropical storms due to its geography and location. The vulnerability of its population to climate change is made worse by high poverty levels, and the negative environmental and social impacts of the country’s large natural resource extraction industries such as mining and logging.
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    The politics of climate change in India: narratives of equity and co-benefits

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2012
    According to this paper, India occupies a dual position in global climate politics: as a developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions; and as a rapidly growing economy with rising emissions. Indian climate politics have been mainly shaped around the first perspective, but it is increasingly being forced to tackle with the second.
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    Connect the dots: managing the fragmentation of global climate governance

    The Earth System Governance Project, 2012
    The debate about post-2012 global climate governance has been framed largely by proponents and opponents of the policymaking process established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Debate has focused on whether a centralised or a polycentric climate governance architecture will be more effective, efficient, equitable or viable.
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    CDM Policy Dialogue

    The independent high-level panel on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was established to review past CDM experience and help ensure the readiness and positioning of the CDM to mee
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    Global corruption report: climate change

    Transparency International, 2011
    Drawing on the expertise of more than 50 experts, this report explores the corruption risks related to tackling climate change. The analysis includes a set of policy recommendations and it covers four key areas: governance, mitigation, adaptation and forestry governance.

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