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    Regional cooperation for energy access and energy security in south and south-west Asia: prospects and challenges

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2013
    This paper, prepared by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), highlights the major energy challenges that countries in the south and south west Asia sub-region are facing.
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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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    The water–energy–food security nexus: towards a practical planning and decision support framework for landscape investment and risk management

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2013
    In recent decades, researchers and policymakers have increasingly emphasised the importance of the complex relationships between water, energy and food (also called the WEF nexus) that are often overlooked in narrowly focused actions, investments and policies. This paper summarises key arguments, approaches, frameworks and lessons learnt from global WEF initiatives.
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    Carbon stocks of tropical coastal wetlands within the karstic landscape of the Mexican Caribbean

    PLoS ONE, 2013
    As one of the most carbon (C) rich ecosystems in the world, the conservation and restoration of tropical wetlands represent a priority for climate change mitigation. Deforestation, agri/aqua culture conversion, pollution and coastal development have all contributed to the loss of over one-third of mangroves in the last fifty years; a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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    Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for low carbon development: learning from experience in Asia

    Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2013
    This policy report seeks to contribute to further development of measurement/monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) modalities and methodologies by providing conceptual clarification of MRV and outlining 16 case studies of MRV schemes. The concept of MRV is described as entailing multiple types, which should be distinguished to avoid conceptual confusion.
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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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    Africa environment outlook 3: our environment, our health

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
    The Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) is a tool of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) for monitoring environmental management in Africa.
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    Climate legislation study: a review of climate change legislation in 33 countries (third edition)

    GLOBE International, 2013
    This review of climate change legislation in 33 countries shows that developing countries are leading action on climate change. Overall, there has been significant progress in the climate and/or energy-related legislation of almost all major economies, but a great amount of the 2012 effort took place in emerging countries.
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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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