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    Climate change and the role of gender: A study from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in South India

    Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2012
    The agrarian communities within less developed parts of South Asia are frequently referred in climate change and gender studies. In this study, a quantitative analysis was carried out to study the link between CC and the role of gender.
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    An insight on farmers’ willingness to pay for insurance premium in South India: hindrances and challenges

    Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2012
    Farmers are vulnerable to substantial weather risks in many parts of India. To this purpose, weather based crop insurance has been recently designed for the rain-fed crops to provide farmers insurance against risks and losses in crop yields resulting from adverse weather.
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    An evaluation of India's national action plan on climate change

    Centre for Development Finance, 2012
    This report evaluates the design of India’s eight climate missions developed using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008. The report aims to provide policy makers, academics and researchers, civil society groups and other stakeholders a snapshot of the climate missions.
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    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

    Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010
    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 and beyond is whether the different positions can be reconciled.
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    Information for climate change adaptation: lessons and needs in South Asia

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012
    Good information is essential to making wise decisions in a changing climate. However, uncertainty of climate change impacts and the complexity associated with climate vulnerability, alongside other issues, make the adaptation information agenda unclear.
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    A practical framework for planning pro-development climate policy

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    MCA4climate is an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which provides practical assistance to governments in preparing their climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies.
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    India: implementing incentives focused on energy

    Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, 2012
    Compared to the global average and other emerging countries, India’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and income per capita remain low. Nevertheless, this working paper shows that India is making important efforts to decouple energy consumption and GHG emissions from growth, pushed in particular by the challenges of energy security and poverty.
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    Sustainable urban transport in India: role of the auto-rickshaw sector

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012
    This paper examines the role of the auto-rickshaw sector in promoting sustainable urban transport in India. It develops a policy vision for the sector and presents recommendations for reforms. The study is based on the three following key strategies of the Avoid-Shift-Improve (ASI) framework: avoid unnecessary trips; shift to more sustainable transport modes; improve performance in all modes.
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    An institutional analysis of biofuel policies and their social implications: lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
    This paper examines how developing countries have attempted to promote rural development through biofuel production, what social outcomes those strategies have created and what lessons can be learned. This is done by comparing the contexts of Brazil, India and Indonesia; three countries with important agricultural sectors that have put large-scale biofuel programmes in place.
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    Respecting rights, delivering development: forest tenure reform since Rio 1992

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
    This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identifies what needs to done to protect global forest areas and ensure their contributions to social, environmental and economic development.

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