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    Carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services: exploring multiple benefits for Ecuador

    UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2011
    The government of Ecuador is addressing deforestation and pressure on forests by scheduling a REDD + high quality mechanism that maximizes the benefits to the climate, environment and people.
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    The happy planet index: 2012 report

    New Economics Foundation, 2012
    The Happy Planet Index (HPI), compiled by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), uses global data on life expectancy, experienced wellbeing and ecological footprint to calculate to which extent countries deliver long, happy and sustainable lives for their people.
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    Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership

    CARE International, 2011
    This policy brief, produced by Care International, outlines a bilateral Reduced Emissions form Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) pilot project – the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). The KFCP project aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation of peat swamp forest by mitigating the frequency and severity of fire, protecting existing peat land and rewetting and r
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    Readiness Preparation Proposals (R – PP)

    Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, 2009
    This document was submitted to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), a World Bank programme that aims to assist developing countries with Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), during May 2009.
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    Global environmental outlook 5: environment for the future we want

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    The fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) analyses the state, trends, outlook and responses to environmental change. It assesses progress towards meeting internationally agreed goals and identifies gaps in their achievement.
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    Water management adaptation measures: a contribution to adaptation to climate change in the Andes

    2009
    Lessons learned from nine case studies of experiences in water management and adaptation to climate change, implemented by member organizations of the Project on Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
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    The emerging policy for green economy and social development in Limpopo, South Africa

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
    This paper evaluates the emerging green economy in South Africa, using ideas from the concept of sustainable rural livelihoods, which are intimately connected to ecological services many developing countries.
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    Respecting rights, delivering development: forest tenure reform since Rio 1992

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
    This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identifies what needs to done to protect global forest areas and ensure their contributions to social, environmental and economic development.
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    Coping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level as the unpredictability of weather conditions increases.
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    Farming’s climate smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011
    This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and the shifting distribution of pests and diseases can all be attributed in part to the increase in emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities.

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