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    Unlocking business dynamism to promote green (sustainable and inclusive) growth: learning from innovation in emerging economies

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2013
    The Overseas Development Institute, working alongside Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and the International Poverty Reduction Center in China, have been developing a collaborative, research, policy engagement and knowledge transfer exchange programme. The aim is to provide stakeholders with firm evidence of ways to promote effective investment in green growth.
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    Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN)

    The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) is a regional programme for managing and applying adaptation knowledge in the region.
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    Economics of climate change in the Arab world: case studies from the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and the Republic of Yemen

    World Bank, 2013
    Scarce water and high temperatures have shaped the cultures of the Arab region over thousands of years. Today, however, the region is confronting climate variability and change that could alter and threaten development in the region. This report presents detailed case studies on the impacts of climate change in the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia and the Republic of Yemen.
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    Measuring the effectiveness of public climate finance delivery at the national level

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This paper presents a framework for measuring the effectiveness of national systems that deliver public climate finance; an approach that incorporates the policy environment, institutional architecture and the public financial system through which climate-based expenditures are channelled.
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    Climate finance: challenges and responses

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
    This policy brief by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) estimates that the cost of tackling climate change in developing countries could reach some hundreds of billions of US dollars annually over the coming decades. Low-emission and climate-resilient development options often require upfront investments that can be costlier than conventional solutions.
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    Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy

    2013
    It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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    Demand in a fragmented global carbon market: outlook and policy options

    Nordic Council of Ministers, 2013
    This report, conducted by GreenStream together with Climate Focus, argues that the global carbon market currently faces a deep demand crisis. The consequent price fall reduces the incentive to make low carbon investments and thus increases the risk of locking in carbon-intensive infrastructure.
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    Towards the fifth review of the UNFCCC’s financial mechanism

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
    Financial support for mitigation and adaptation actions in developing countries is at the core of the climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is due to the legal obligations created by the Convention itself and the critical role of finance in enabling developing countries to take ambitious climate action.
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    Private investment in wind power in Colombia

    Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2012
    This report examines the feasibility of private investment in wind power in Colombia within the current regulatory framework. It focuses especially on the regulatory methodology for estimating the ‘firm energy’ that wind power plants are capable of providing in Colombia to back up hydro generation during extended periods of drought (El Niño weather events).
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    Creating the climate for change

    Climate Investment Funds, 2013
    This 2012 annual report of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), jointly produced by its partner multilateral development banks, provides an overview of CIF's activities in 49 pilot countries. So far CIF has pledged US $7.6 billion, funding 66 projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transport, sustainable management of forests and climate resilience.

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