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    Cross-sectoral integration in the Sustainable Development Goals: A nexus approach

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2014
    This brief proposes ways to use the water-energy-food nexus framework to facilitate cross-sectoral integration in the Sustainable Development Goals process, with the purpose of making the SDGs more cost-effective, efficient and sustainable in the long term.
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    Promoting greater cooperation between Russia and OECD donors

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Russia is unique amongst the BRICS group for being a ‘re-emerging’ donor. The USSR was one of the largest donor countries in the world. After a relatively brief period as a net aid recipient during the 1990s, Russia has once again become a significant provider of development assistance.
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    Older people count: making data fit for purpose

    HelpAge International, 2014
    The world is ageing. In 2012 there were 810 million women and men aged 60 and over worldwide. Population ageing is happening in all regions of the world. It is progressing fastest in developing countries. Of 15 countries that currently have more than 10 million older people, seven are developing countries.
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    Watering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”
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    Will changes to the tax system benefit low-income countries?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    In recent months tax has climbed up the political agenda in ways that would have been unthinkable only a couple of years ago. Creating a fairer international tax system was a central ambition of both the Lough Erne declaration and the Leaders Declaration that came out of the respective G8 and G20 meetings in 2013.
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    The EU and Latin America and the Caribbean: Paving the road towards a new global climate change agreement in 2015?

    European Union-Latin America and Caribbean Foundation, 2013
    This paper argues that existing relations and common goals between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can serve as a solid foundation to build momentum towards a fair, robust and ambitious international agreement on climate change in 2015. It explores the current EU-LAC partnership and new options for increasing cooperation and diplomacy on climate change.
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    Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services in the post-2015 development agenda: Goal structure, target areas and means of implementation

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
    Published in the open access journal Sustainability, this paper examines the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) into the post-2015 development agenda. Present discussions at the United Nations on defining a new set of development goals are focused on poverty alleviation and sustainable development, key components of BES.
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    A pathway to a climate change agreement in 2015: options for setting and reviewing GHG emission reduction offers

    World Resources Institute [ES], 2013
    The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Parties need to put forward emission reduction offers as part of the 2015 climate change agreement that is currently being negotiated. This paper suggests options for the design of this process, including the content of the offers and how they will be reviewed.
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    A Post-2015 Information System for International Development and Climate Finance

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2013
    With the upcoming end date for the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), this paper focuses on two opportunities for improving information on external financing for sustainable development:
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    The new geopolitics of peace operations: mapping the emerging landscape

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2012
    As the world’s geopolitical landscape is reshaped by changes in the relationships between leading global and regional powers, important questions are being raised about the durability of the recent downward trend in armed conflict, as well as the international consensus on forms of peace operations and what will be politically feasible in terms of interventions to address the conflict age

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