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    Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America

    Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    This working paper, produced by the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, investigates the relationship between emissions, inequality and poverty in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. Research on this topic is of particular importance, since changing global demographics mean that the majority of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries.
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    Institutional framework for implementing REDD+ in India

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2013
    India has 78.29 million hectare under forest and tree cover (Forest Survey of India, 2011) which is 23.81 per cent of the total geographical area of the country. However, the country’s forests are facing immense pressure due to unsustainable use of forest produce.
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    Governing the forests: an institutional analysis of REDD+ and community forest management in Asia

    International Tropical Timber Organization, 2013
    This report examines the history, structure and monitoring mechanisms of REDD+ to better understand how it impacts upon, and interacts with, Community Forest Management (CFM). It presents case studies of CFM and REDD+ governance from Bangladesh, Indonesia and India, and concludes with some lessons learned.
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    Meeting India's renewable energy targets: the financing challenge

    Climate Policy Initiative, 2012
    This paper analyses the challenges for designing Indian national policy to attract investment in wind and solar energy at a reasonable cost. It also examines the impact of national and state policies on various classes of renewable energy investors, as well as the overall relative costs or benefits of policies on the final cost of renewable energy projects.
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    Nationally appropriate mitigation action study on sustainable charcoal in Uganda

    2013
    The charcoal sector provides one of the greatest opportunities to prevent carbon emissions in least developed countries (LDCs) while fostering significant sustainable development benefits. The objective of this nationally appropriate mitigation action (NAMA) study is to provide Uganda with an opportunity to help shape its future low carbon development.
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    Renewables global futures report

    REN21 Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, 2013
    The future of renewable energy is fundamentally a choice, not a foregone conclusion given technology and economic trends, according to this report.
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    Forest Carbon Partnership Facility: 2012 annual report

    Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, 2012
    The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) is a global partnership of governments, businesses, civil society and indigenous peoples groups focused on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, forest carbon stock conservation, the sustainable management of forests and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (i.e. REDD+ activities).
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    Benefits of the clean development mechanism 2012

    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2012
    The end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008–2012) marks a turning point in the history of the clean development mechanism (CDM). This junction warrants posing the question: Did the CDM fulfil its initial design objectives and were there any other benefits? This second benefits report on the CDM aims to answer this question.
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    Creating market support for energy efficiency: India’s Perform, Achieve and Trade scheme

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
    India, recognising the challenge of pursuing economic growth in a sustainable manner, has developed an energy efficiency scheme to govern large energy consumers.
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    National climate funds: learning from the experience of Asia-Pacific countries

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    This discussion paper from the United Nations Development Programme examines the experiences of Asia-Pacific countries in establishing and managing extra-budgetary national climate funds (NCFs).

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