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    Assessing the climate impacts of cookstove projects: issues in emissions accounting

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
    With an estimated 2.6 billion people relying on traditional biomass for cooking and heating, improved efficiency of cookstoves could provide greenhouse gas emission reductions in excess of one billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year.
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    Developing financeable NAMAs: a practitioner’s guide

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2013
    Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are fast becoming the climate finance vehicle of choice to help developing countries transition to low carbon, climate resilient futures.
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    The benefits of gender balance in climate change mitigation investments and sustainable energy initiatives

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2012
    Cleaner fuels, improved efficiency and adoption of renewable energy technologies offer important possibilities for low carbon economic development and reductions in overall greenhouse gas emissions. This paper highlights that these possibilities are especially important for women in developing countries who currently play critical roles in supplying and managing traditional biomass fuels.
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    Growing green: the economic benefits of climate action

    World Bank, 2013
    The economic impacts of climate change already threaten development gains; unchecked emissions will come at rising economic cost and increasing risk to individuals. This report argues that there is a clear case for all economies to move to a low carbon growth path, but climate action has, so far, been inadequate, especially in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA).
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    Moving towards a common approach on green growth indicators

    Green Growth Knowledge Platform, 2013
    Greening growth (GG) and moving towards a greener economy (GE) is complex and multidimensional.
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    Neoclassical realism and international climate change politics: moral imperative and political constraint in international climate finance

    Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
    This article presents a neoclassical realist theory of climate change politics that challenges the idea that cooperation on climate change is compelled alone by shared norms and interests emanating from the international level and questions if instead material factors also play a significant constraining role.
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    Unburnable carbon 2013: wasted capital and stranded assets

    London School of Economics, 2013
    According to this report, despite fossil fuel reserves already far exceeding the carbon budget to avoid global warming of more than two degrees Celsius, US$674 billion was spent in 2012 finding and developing new potentially stranded assets. If this continues, economies will see over US$6 trillion in wasted capital.
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    Infrastructure and climate change: impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2013
    The African Development Bank has called for US$40 billion per year over the coming decades to be provided to African countries to address development issues directly related to climate change. This study addresses a key component of these issues, the effect of climate change on the road infrastructure of Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, all located within the Zambezi River Basin.
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    Least developed, most vulnerable: have climate finance promises been fulfilled for the LDCs?

    European Capacity Building Initiative, 2013
    As part of the Copenhagen Accord, wealthy nations pledged to help developing countries transition to a low carbon economy and to deal with the impacts of climate change.
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    Independent insights from vulnerable developing countries

    Germanwatch, 2012
    The Adaptation Fund established under the Kyoto Protocol has reached the implementation stage of adaptation projects in developing countries. This publication summarises the state of play in the Adaptation Fund and the key experiences of members of the Adaptation Fund NGO Network, at the international policy level as well as within developing countries.

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