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    The Globe climate legislation study: Fourth edition

    GLOBE International, 2014
    The GLOBE Climate Legislation Study seeks to provide an annual audit of climate change‐related laws in 66 country chapters.
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    Green Growth Best Practice: Synthesis of key findings

    Green Growth Best Practice, 2014
    With environmental issues increasingly seen through economic and social perspectives, many governments around the world are now looking to green growth strategies as a way to kick-start and accelerate investment in new technologies and industries.
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    Moving from risk to resilience: Sustainable urban development in the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    This report focuses on urbanization, combined with the increasing frequency and intensity of natural hazards associated with the onset of climate change, as a major contributor to risk exposure in the Pacific.
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    Value for money in infrastructure procurement: The costs and benefits of environmental and social safeguards in India

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2014
    This report debates the extent to which public-private partnerships (PPPs) are delivering value for money (VFM) in India. While VfM is traditionally interpreted to mean the lowest-priced alternative at the time of commissioning, in the context of sustainable development it is understood as value for money across the asset life cycle.
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    Report of the third FAO regional workshop on statistics for greenhouse gas emissions

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014
    This report contains the main results of the Third FAO Regional Workshop on statistics for greenhouse gas emissions which was held in Casablanca, Morocco, 02-03 December 2013. Key issues highlighted for progress included reliability, sustainability and comprehensiveness of data collection and analysis procedures.
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    Applying abatement cost curve methodology for low-carbon strategy in changning district, Shanghai

    World Bank, 2013
    This report documents the methodology of and key findings from applying abatement cost curves and scenarios to set low-carbon targets and define cost-effective low-carbon investment programs in Changning district, Shanghai.
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    Recording disaster losses: Recommendations for a European approach

    Directorate-General for Research - European Commission, 2013
    This study provides technical recommendations for a European approach to standardize loss databases. Loss data are useful for the implementation of disaster risk reduction strategies in Europe and to help understand disaster loss trends at global level.
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    Mainstreaming sustainable energy access into national development planning: The case of Ethiopia

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
    This study examines the case of Ethiopia in order to investigate the prospects for mainstreaming sustainable energy access into the development planning process and the implications of this for international development financiers, national policy-makers, private actors and local energy planners.
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    Watershed development in India: Economic valuation and adaptation considerations

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013
    This paper explores how watershed development, an ecosystem-based approach for development of rain-fed regions in India, is gaining traction and political support, and its potential contribution to poverty reduction, food security, and climate change adaptation.
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    A study on energy crisis and social benefit of solar energy

    International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, 2014
    This study explores solar power distribution and sector growth in India. The data collected through primary surveys by interview schedules and field visits covering Chennai and Thiruvallur districts on India. Secondary data, regarding net availability of power, distribution of power supply under state and all-India level has also been collected.

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