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  The environment-poverty nexus: an institutional analysis

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000

  While there are clearly hypothesized links between poverty and degradation, attempts to demonstrate such links empirically have yielded mixed results. This paper aims at determining the nature, causes and impacts of poverty in Pakistan.
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  A legally binding agreement (LBA) - growing need for air pollution reduction and control in South Asia

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011

  Environmental degradation remains a challenge in most South Asian countries. With increased industrial activity, the exponential growth in number of vehicles and population, the contribution of each country to the south Asia regional air pollution is expected to increase over time.
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  Environmental challenges and constraints to policy issues for sustainable industrial development in Pakistan

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012

  Like most of other south Asian countries, traditionally, Pakistan’s economy has been centered on agriculture. However, in the recent past, manufacturing and services have also emerged as major contributing sectors. The share of manufacturing sector, from 18.3% in 2007 to 30% by 2030, has been envisioned in Vision 2030.
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  Climate change adaptation: improving environment through reduction in wood cutting and remission in greenhouse gases with introduction and promotion of energy efficient technologies - district Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013

  The natural disaster and conflict have brought changes in the physical, chemical and biological character of environment across the globe. Pakistan is one of the worst victims facing effects of climate change in spite of the factual situation that it does not account for generating as well as expanding this global problem.
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  China Carbon Forum (CCF)

  China Carbon Forum (CCF) was established in 2007 by professionals in China’s climate change sector as a non-for-profit organisation to exchange information, best practices and engage with China’s c
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  Ecosystem services from tropical forests: review of current science

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2014

  This report explains the variety of environmental services tropical forests provide and the science underlying how forests provide these services. Tropical deforestation and degradation have reduced the area covered by tropical forests from 12 percent to less than 5 per cent of Earth’s land area.
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  Recognizing indigenous and community rights: Priority steps to advance development znd mitigate climate change

  The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2014

  This brief calculates the cost of securing Indigenous Peoples’ and community rights to the tropical forests where they live, arguing that secure land tenure is a prerequisite for the success of climate, poverty reduction and ecosystem conservation initiatives.
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  Environment and Planning A

  Environment and Planning A is a journal focused on spatial organisation and restructuring of cities and regions throughout the globe.
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  Instituting REDD+: An analysis of the processes and outcomes of two pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  REDD readiness is about developing national strategies for REDD+ including the necessary systems to ensure reduced DD, encompassing systems for monitoring/carbon accounting and distribution of international compensations. Establishing REDD+ is a process of change not least regarding actions on the ground.
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  The Ongo Community Forest REDD+ pilot Project, Uganda: A socioeconomic baseline survey

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 2012

  This report aims to synthesise information on current socioeconomic conditions within the villages that are to be involved in the Ecotrust Pro-Poor REDD+ pilot project in the Masindi district of western Uganda.

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