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    Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)

    Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance helps to develop cost-effective ways to reduce carbon emissions from energy supply and use by mobilising
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    International trade and climate change: issues for South Asia

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2010
    With growing concerns over climate change, the debate over the linkage between climate change and trade is likely to intensify, particularly in countries vulnerable to this change, such as South Asian countries. This paper states that climate change is likely to affect macroeconomic and trade performance, and livelihoods and living standards in South Asia.
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    A guidebook to the green economy, issue 1: green economy, green growth, and low-carbon development – history, definitions and a guide to recent publications

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2012
    Green economy has been proposed as a means for catalysing national policy development and international cooperation to respond to climate change related crises and support sustainable development. The concept has received significant international attention over the past few years, which has resulted in a rapidly expanding literature on the topic.
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    Technologies for climate change mitigation: building sector

    UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, 2012
    This guidebook is designed to assist countries participating in the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) programme to carry out evaluations in the building sector. Based on the TNA, countries’ can develop a Technology Action Plan (TAP) to identify barriers to the acquisition, deployment and diffusion of priority technologies.
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    Energy cooperation in South Asia: prospects and challenges

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2010
    Reliable energy supply is needed to alleviate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth. This paper assesses the barriers to regional energy cooperation in South Asia Growth focusing particularly on Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.
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    Responding to climate vulnerability through carbon trade

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2010
    One of the most spectacular aspects of the climate agenda has been the emergence of carbon markets. This paper demonstrates that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) provides an opportunity for developing countries, including South Asian countries, to participate in carbon markets.
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    Tackling perverse subsidies in agriculture, fisheries and energy

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
    Subsidies have always been part of the policy toolbox that governments use to achieve a variety of policy goals. This information note focuses on three sectors of particular relevance from a sustainable development perspective, namely agriculture, fisheries and energy, reviewing the scale and composition of subsidies provided in these sectors and their relative impact.
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    Technologies for climate change mitigation: agriculture sector

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    This guidebook by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project describes crop and livestock management technologies and practices that contribute to climate change mitigation while improving crop productivity and reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers.
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    Future perfect

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2012
    This United Nations flagship publication launched at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012 aims to raise awareness on sustainability and green growth. The objective is to show renewed political commitment for sustainable development, while assessing progress to date.
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    Global Transition 2012

    The Global Transition 2012 is an international network that aims to catalyse a global transition by building a community of civil society organisations across the globe to promote and deliver a rapid

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