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  A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  This comprehensive toolkit, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Asia Pacific Secretariat, seeks to provide strategies for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia.
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  Connect the dots: managing the fragmentation of global climate governance

  The Earth System Governance Project, 2012

  The debate about post-2012 global climate governance has been framed largely by proponents and opponents of the policymaking process established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Debate has focused on whether a centralised or a polycentric climate governance architecture will be more effective, efficient, equitable or viable.
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  Designing effective REDD+ safeguard information systems: building on existing systems and country experiences

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2012

  A key determinant of REDD+ success will be the development and implementation of safeguards, including systems for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected. This policy paper is the result of a three-year initiative to develop REDD+ safeguard information systems (SIS).
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  The evolution and governance architecture of the climate change regime

  Social Science Research Network, 2012

  Although the general theory of global warming has been a part of scientific research and debate since the end of the nineteenth century, an international legal regime to address the problem of climate change began to develop only in the late 1980s.
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  Climate change, carbon markets and the CDM: a call to action - report of the high-level panel on the CDM policy dialogue

  CDM Policy Dialogue, 2012

  The independent high-level panel on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was established to review past CDM experience and help ensure the readiness and positioning of the CDM to meet the challenges of the post-2012 period.
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  Guide for REDD-plus negotiators (updated October 2012)

  Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, 2012

  REDD+ is a complicated issue: both technically and politically. Although many countries are interested in reaching agreement on REDD+, they also have different priorities and views on key issues. Financing, scope and the question of safeguards have been some of the most hotly debated issues.
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  CDM Policy Dialogue

  The independent high-level panel on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was established to review past CDM experience and help ensure the readiness and positioning of the CDM to mee
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  The residential solar water heaters (SWH) market in Lebanon in 2011: how can sound governmental policies boost a green economy

  Global Environment Facility, 2012

  Using the example of the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water’s (MEW) support for the residental solar water heating (SWH) market, this report highlights how sound governmental policies can boost a green economy.
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  Technology roadmap: hydropower

  International Energy Agency, 2012

  This report lays out a roadmap for doubling global hydroelectricity production by 2050, noting that since 2005 new capacity additions in hydropower have generated more electricity than all other renewables combined. It highlights that the potential for additional hydropower remains considerable, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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  Climate-change mitigation and adaptation in small island developing states: the case of rainwater harvesting in Jamaica

  Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2012

  This essay looks at climate change impacts on small island developing states (SIDS). It argues that climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies must be developed to cope with changes such as shifting precipitation patterns, increasing evapotranspiration and expanding saline intrusion into coastal aquifers and wells.

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