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    The politics of agricultural carbon finance: the case of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2012
    In the context of major scientific and policy concern with the causes and implications of climate change, various actors are now keen to demonstrate how agricultural carbon finance can help achieve multiple benefits or ‘triple wins’ for sub-Saharan African agriculture.
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    Keeping REDD+ clean: a step-by-step guide to preventing corruption

    Transparency International, 2012
    This manual helps to understand and address corruption risks associated with forest carbon accounting programmes and strategies at the national level.
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    Policy options for low-carbon power generation in China: designing an emissions trading system for China’s electricity sector

    International Energy Agency, 2012
    China has indicated that it intends to rely on emissions trading to curb its growing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper explores how China could use an emissions trading system (ETS) to control CO2 emissions from its power generation sector, which is the single largest emitter of the country’s energy-related emissions.
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    Leveraging the landscape: state of the forest carbon markets 2012

    Forest Trends, 2012
    This report examines a variety of strategies for injecting financial resources into projects that save or plant forests that capture carbon. The data and analysis cover forest carbon activity in compliance carbon markets (e.g. the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism), as well as voluntary carbon markets (e.g. the voluntary Over-the-Counter market).
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    Ecuador’s Socio Bosque programme

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) presents Ecuador’s Socio Bosque programme as a successful example of a voluntary incentive-based scheme with combined environmental and socioeconomic targets.
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    Going after adaptation co-benefits: a REDD+ programme in Fiji

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) finds that Fiji has an advanced REDD+ policy and planning process, which has also inspired other Pacific countries to engage with REDD+.
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    The politics of climate change in India: narratives of equity and co-benefits

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2012
    According to this paper, India occupies a dual position in global climate politics: as a developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions; and as a rapidly growing economy with rising emissions. Indian climate politics have been mainly shaped around the first perspective, but it is increasingly being forced to tackle with the second.
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    Green growth: economic theory and political discourse

    London School of Economics, 2012
    This paper explores the concept of green growth in international policy discourse. It distinguishes between a ‘standard’ version, which asserts the long-run economic benefit of environmental protection, and a ‘strong’ interpretation, which claims that environmental policy can be a driver for growth. The paper discusses three different forms of this claim.
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    REDD+ politics in the media: a case study from Papua New Guinea

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2012
    This study examines how policy debates on REDD+ have been framed by the media in Papua New Guinea. The content analysis covers print media articles mentioning ‘REDD(+)’ or ‘carbon trade’/‘carbon trading’ published between December 2005 and December 2010 from the country’s three highest selling and/or most influential newspapers.
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    Negotiating climate change

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2012
    Because the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009, failed to reach an agreement on emissions commitments beyond 2012, studying negotiation strategies of country delegations remains relevant.

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