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  Pan-Arab Renewable Energy Strategy 2030: Roadmap of actions for implementation

  International Renewable Energy Agency, 2014

  This report presents the results of the study that covered 22 Arab states and asseses their renewable energy sector.
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  Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project: rapid climate change threat and vulnerability assessment

  Asian Development Bank, 2014

  ADB publication describing a study assessing potential climate change impacts on a large transport infrastructure project in Viet Nam.
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  Socio-economic assessment of Hihifo district, the pilot site for the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project in Tonga

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2014

  How can communities in Hihifo, Tonga, protect and manage their water resources, in order to reduce their vulnerability to the impacts of climate variability and change?
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  Financing recovery for resilience: enhancing the coverage, capitalization and coherence of pooled financing mechanisms for recovery to strengthen synergies between humanitarian, development and climate finance

  United Nations Development Programme, 2014

  This study asks whether the financing of recovery efforts is consistent with the international architecture in place to promote the transition from crisis to sustainable development in fragile and conflict-affected states.
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  Options of the 2015 agreement under the Durban Platform process: focusing on legal form of the agreement, nationally determined contributions, and finance

  National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2014

  This research report focuses on the 2015 international climate change agreement and the Durban Platform. It looks at the results of an online questionnaire carried out in January 2014. The Durban Platform decision reached at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Durban, South Africa.
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  Climate cooperation with technology investments and border carbon adjustment

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2014

  This paper looks at the climate policy question of whether early investments in low-carbon technologies are a useful first step towards a more effective climate agreement in the future. It introduces a climate cooperation model with endogenous research and development (R&D) investments, where countries protect their international competitiveness via border carbon adjustments (BCA).
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  Options and proposals for the international governance of geoengineering

  Umwelt Bundes Amt / The Federal Environment Agency, Germany, 2014

  This research offers proposals for the governance of the main currently discussed geoengineering concepts at the international climate policy level. Based on analysis of the existing regulatory framework and its gaps, the study identifies general options and specific recommended actions for the effective governance of geoengineering.
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  Will the BRICS provide the global public goods the world needs?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2014

  The demand for global economic governance is increasing in a globalising and increasingly interlinked economy. Yet global governance, a global public good, is currently undersupplied – and this (e.g. lack of global rules on trade, finance and emissions) is harming development.
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  Green growth in practice: lessons from country experiences

  Green Growth Best Practice, 2014

  This report provides an assessment of lessons from experiences of pursuing green growth across all levels of government and all regions. It assesses more than 60 programs around the world and focuses on nine interlinked elements which it argues are commonly used by governments in green growth analysis, planning, implementation, and monitoring.
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  Governance: linchpin of dryland natural resource management

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014

  Drylands cover approximately 12.5 million km2 (61%) of the African continent and 60% of Africa’s people live in them. Forests and woodlands underpin sustainable land management and livelihoods in dryland regions. They are important for risk management and adaptation, and in emergency and contingency planning.

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