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    Biophilic Cities Are Sustainable, Resilient Cities

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
    On an increasingly urban planet, cities face shocks such as climate change, natural disasters and economic uncertainty. Biophilic cities are cities that provide close and daily contact with nature as well as seeking to create and build on awareness for caring for it.
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    Pacific Climate Change Finance Assessment: Nauru Case Study

    Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, 2013
    The purpose of this climate change finance assessment is to assist the Government of Nauru in making informed decisions on measures to improve access to and management of climate change resources. The Nauru Case Study draws together a variety of previous studies, including policy reviews and analyses focussing on specific sector or thematic issues.
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    Climate diplomacy: Seeing the bigger picture

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
    Diplomacy is essential to integrating climate change into foreign policy, and developing the conditions for securing an international climate agreement by 2015.
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    Water and food security – Experiences in India and China

    Global Water Partnership, 2013
    This paper focuses on India and China as dominant and influential countries in Asia. It compares the way these countries, with different political approaches, are approaching the challenge of harnessing water resources to increase effectiveness, equity, and sustainability under conditions of growing water scarcity and competing demands.
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    International Law: Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation

    Global Water Partnership, 2013
    The key messages from this policy brief include: „ Internationally shared watercourses are important for the economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of over 70 per cent of the world’s population, therefore states must cooperate to resolve problems and share limited resources. The duty to cooperate is central to international law. International agreements and rules of customary law can help s
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    Developing country perspectives on ‘mitigation actions’, ‘NAMAs’, and ‘LCDS’

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2013
    The MAPS programme, which seeks to deepen mitigation ambition in developing countries, is engaged in exploring the concepts of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and Low Carbon Development Strategies (LCDS) from a developing country perspective.
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    Challenges for a climate compatible development: how to strengthen agricultural, livestock and forestry public policies

    Latin American Platform on Climate, 2012
    This policy brief emerges from a process of analysis of the status and quality of the public policies on climate change and development in ten Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, El Salvador and Paraguay.
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    Fragmentation in the public administration for climate change mitigation: a major institutional constraint for energy policy in the transportation sector of Thailand

    Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on the Environment, 2013
    This paper focuses on how fragmentation in public administration has become a major institutional constraint on CO2 emission mitigation policies in Thailand, particularly for energy policy in the transportation sector. Most of our data are narratives and descriptions derived from in-depth interviews with various governmental agencies and academics.
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    Toward the green economy: assessing countries’ green power

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2013
    The green power potential of a country is a central factor in the transformation to a green economy. This paper argues that green power will become a decisive factor for global change. Green power combines sustainability, innovation and power into one concept.
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    Understanding the policy contexts for mainstreaming climate change in Bhutan and Nepal; a synthesis

    Adaptation Knowledge Platform, 2013
    This report is a synthesis of two Adaptation Knowledge Platform studies that sought to understand the policy contexts for addressing climate change adaptation and key conservation issues in Nepal and Bhutan. These two Himalayan countries have significant commonalities and differences.

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