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    Pioneering renewable energy options: Thailand takes up the challenge

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
    Thailand’s support policies for renewable energy (RE) in the power sector have allowed individual small projects to add up to something substantial, attracting more investment and leading to faster growth in the sector than in most other Asian nations. Thai energy policy is complex, and the development of RE has not been without controversy.
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    Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2013
    Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies.
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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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    China’s state-owned enterprises as climate policy actors: the power and steel sectors

    Nordic Council of Ministers, 2013
    A significant share of China’s greenhouse gas emitting activities is operated by state owned enterprises (SOEs) in power generation and steel production. The report demonstrates that SOEs have played a significant role in mitigation actions in these two sectors.
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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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    Forests and climate change after Doha: an Asia-Pacific perspective

    The Centre for People and Forests, 2013
    Since 2010 the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th, 16th and 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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    Asian development outlook 2013: Asia’s energy challenge

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    The Asian Development Outlook 2013 provides a comprehensive economic analysis at both regional- and country-levels. It begins by outlining the economic status of the region before examining the goals, challenges and strategies of stakeholders with regard to present and future energy demand and supply. Finally it profiles the economic trends and prospects of over 30 countries.
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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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    Study on perspectives of energy production systems and climate change risks in Nigeria

    InTech, 2013
    The study presents the climate change risks associated with energy production and utilisation, as well as the possibility of achieving low carbon development in Nigeria. It describes climate change as a global phenomenon, but notes that the adversity of its impacts depends on the types of causative agents and geographical locations of the beneficiary.

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