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    Institutionalising Disaster Risk Management: Latin America’s systems approach

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    How are Latin American countries mainstreaming decentralised, democratic and participatory strategies to disaster risk management across public policy?
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    Climate-smart agriculture sourcebook

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013
    This comprehensive sourcebook on climate-smart agriculture (CSA), produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, consists of eighteen modules covering every aspect of planning and implementing CSA policies and projects.
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    Redrawing the energy-climate map: world energy outlook special report

    International Energy Agency, 2013
    Concerned that the target of limiting the global temperature increase to 2°C is not on track, the International Energy Agency produced this World Energy Outlook Special Report through extensive consultation and a high-level workshop in Paris (March 2013).
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    DETERring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: environmental monitoring and law enforcement

    Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
    This study asks: which specific policy efforts contributed most to the reduction in Amazon deforestation? The paper, which evaluates the impact of monitoring on deforestation, focuses on DETER, a satellite-based system for real-time detection of deforestation. DETER is the key tool for targeting law enforcement activities in the Brazilian Amazon.
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    Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?

    Global Canopy Programme, 2013
    This paper argues that legal reform of land tenure will not take place fast enough to enable developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through REDD+. It highlights that a global agreement on REDD+ is needed by 2020, if the mechanism is to have a significant impact on mitigating climate change.
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    The policy climate

    Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
    This report offers an overview of climate change policy issues across the world.
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    Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa

    United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2013
    Africa has a huge untapped potential for generating clean energy, including enough hydroelectric power from its seven major river systems to serve the whole continent’s energy needs, as well as great potential for solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy etc.
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    Decision support tool: Integrated REDD+ accounting frameworks: nested national approaches

    Lowering Emissions in Asia's Forests, 2013
    Carbon accounting and incentive allocation frameworks are a central component of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and in structuring these frameworks, decisions need to be made over how to reach REDD+ objectives in a timely, economically efficient and socially and environmentally sustainable manner.
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    Mitigating disasters — a promising start

    The Lancet, 2013
    A ten-year United Nations plan to make the world safer from natural disasters went into effect in 2005. With 2015 nearing, countries are now assessing how well it has worked. The Hyogo Framework for Action spelled out what all countries had to do over the following ten years to make disasters less disastrous.
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    Green economy and trade: trends, challenges and opportunities

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
    Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportunities and barriers inherent in a transition to a green economy, and to assist all stakeholders to build capacity.

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