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    Planning for a low carbon future: lessons learned from seven country studies

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2012
    Developing countries are faced with the dual challenge of reducing poverty while improving management of natural capital and mitigating the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and local pollutants. The challenge is particularly acute for large, rapidly growing economies, such as India, China and Brazil.
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    The climate investment funds: in action

    African Development Bank, 2012
    The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) provides developing countries with concessional loans, equity, grants and risk mitigation instruments to leverage financing from multilateral banks, the private sector and other sectors. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is one of the five implementing agencies for the CIF concessional funds to Africa; this report is AfDB’s first semi-annual report on the CIF.
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    Legal options for a sustainable energy trade agreement

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
    This paper analyses the existing legal frameworks within which a possible Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement (SETA) could be negotiated to address energy-related trade governance and the resulting legal challenges and opportunities.
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    Global Energy Security: South African Energy Policy and G8 Petersburg Declaration on Global Energy Security

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2007
    South Africa faces many of the same energy sector challenges as expressed in the Petersburg Declaration, although, South Africa faces additional challenges that developing countries face.
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    The South African Renewables Initiative: Advancing South Africa’s Low Carbon Industrial and Economic Strategy

    2010
    South Africa’s current industrial policy aims to diversify the nation’s technological and industrial base beyond traditional dependence on mining, mineral processing and agriculture, by improving competitiveness and output in upstream engineering and ‘nearby’ industries such as transport machinery and food processing. This paper sets out the case for enhancing South Africa’s industrial and broade
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    Mitigation finance

    Overseas Development Institute, 2012
    This paper considers what 'counts' as climate change mitigation finance, with reference to the concept of additionality, by reviewing a range of activities that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the five sectors that account for the largest share of global GHG accumulation: energy, transport, industry, agriculture and water.
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    Building urban resilience: principles, tools and practice

    World Bank, 2012
    This handbook summarises the guiding principles, tools and practice in key economic sectors that can facilitate the implementation of resilience concepts into decisions related to infrastructure investments and general urban management as a means of reducing disaster and climate risks.
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    Low carbon development and poverty: exploring poverty alleviating mitigation action in developing countries

    Energy Research Centre, 2012
    Climate change and poverty mostly fall into the adaptation category in the current research literature and relevant policy making due to the assumption that poor countries produce only low carbon emissions.
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    A risky climate for southern African hydro: assessing hydrological risks and consequences for Zambezi river basin dams

    International Rivers Network, 2012
    This report gives an early warning about what southern Africa could be facing as countries contemplate plans for more large hydropower dams in a time of climate change.
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    Climate change adaptation in Grenada: water resources, coastal ecosystems and renewable energy

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2012
    This study attempts to encourage practical implementation of climate change adaptation programmes and their integration into national plans for sustainable development. It argues that the assessment process must evolve over time to fit continuously changing climate change impacts, conditions, priorities and national sustainable development criteria.

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