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  • Organisation

    International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emissi
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    Reducing vulnerability and exposure to disasters: the Asia-Pacific disaster report 2012

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
    According to this report, people’s exposure and vulnerability, experienced individually and collectively, continue to be twin challenges for the Asia-Pacific region. Faced with growing economic losses and increasingly vulnerable populations, the report analyses the drivers of risks and the strategies that are in place to deal with them.
  • Document

    Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships

    Overseas Development Institute, 2012
    These challenge papers aim to address two key questions: how has the development challenge changed, and how could it be understood for the future; and what are the implications for development agencies and development partnerships? The first paper explores the challenges facing global development.
  • Document

    Institutions for sustainable development

    Wiley Online Library, 2012
    This special issue of Natural Resources Forum, a United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, is devoted to institutions for sustainable development.
  • Document

    Realizing the future we want: report to the Secretary-General

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    The first report from the United Nations system on the post-2015 development agenda recommends that new goals should build on the strengths of the millennium development goals, apply to all countries and be based on the fundamental principles of human rights, equality and sustainability.
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    Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific: an institutional and policy analysis

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
    Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) both share a common focus: reducing the vulnerability of communities and contributing to sustainable development. This study provides an analysis of the current level of integration of DDR and CCA in the Pacific region, with an emphasis on the institutional and policy environment.
  • Organisation

    Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)

    The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people.
  • Organisation

    The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

    The Nature Conservancy was founded in 1951. Today it works in over 30 countries to protect natural habitats from grasslands to coral reefs.
  • Organisation

    Many Strong Voices (MSV)

    Many Strong Voices (MSV) was established in Montreal, Canada, in December 2005 to raise awareness on the effects of climate change in the Arctic and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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    International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)

    The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) was established under the auspices of the United Nations in 1986 amidst increasing worldwide concern for the fate of tropical forests.

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