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    Multi-model climate change projections for India under representative concentration pathways

    Indian Academy of Sciences, 2012
    Climate projections for the preparation of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are made using the newly developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) under the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5).
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    An evaluation of India's national action plan on climate change

    Centre for Development Finance, 2012
    This report evaluates the design of India’s eight climate missions developed using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008. The report aims to provide policy makers, academics and researchers, civil society groups and other stakeholders a snapshot of the climate missions.
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    Information for climate change adaptation: lessons and needs in South Asia

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012
    Good information is essential to making wise decisions in a changing climate. However, uncertainty of climate change impacts and the complexity associated with climate vulnerability, alongside other issues, make the adaptation information agenda unclear.
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    A practical framework for planning pro-development climate policy

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    MCA4climate is an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which provides practical assistance to governments in preparing their climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies.
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    India: implementing incentives focused on energy

    Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, 2012
    Compared to the global average and other emerging countries, India’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and income per capita remain low. Nevertheless, this working paper shows that India is making important efforts to decouple energy consumption and GHG emissions from growth, pushed in particular by the challenges of energy security and poverty.
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    An institutional analysis of biofuel policies and their social implications: lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
    This paper examines how developing countries have attempted to promote rural development through biofuel production, what social outcomes those strategies have created and what lessons can be learned. This is done by comparing the contexts of Brazil, India and Indonesia; three countries with important agricultural sectors that have put large-scale biofuel programmes in place.
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    Low carbon growth country studies – getting started: experience from six countries

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2009
    This document is a review of the low carbon growth studies conducted in six emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa. These countries, with the help of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), have initiated country specific studies to assess development goals in conjunction with greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities.
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    Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
    Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these agreements. This report is the first joint product of the Southern Voices capacity building programme.
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    IDLO-CISDL compendium of legal best practices on climate change policy

    International Development Law Organisation, 2011
    This paper highlights the challenges that governments face in implementing their international climate change policy commitments and the means to addressing these challenges. The authors note that international action on climate change is a relatively new phenomenon and legal systems were designed prior to the establishment of the multilateral climate change regime.
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    How vulnerable is India’s trade to possible border carbon adjustments in the EU?

    Kluwer Law International, 2012
    This document is an empirical analysis of India’s trade vulnerabilities to a possible border carbon adjustment scheme implemented by the European Union (EU).

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