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  Prioritizing fossil-fuel subsidy reform in the UNFCCC process: recommendations for short-term actions

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2013

  This policy brief addresses the importance of fossil-fuel subsidy reform in the context of meeting global climate change mitigation goals, elaborates on the concrete actions Parties can take to progress reform, and describes how efforts under the auspices of the UNFCCC will complement similar work in other international forums.
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  Using climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making: a step-by-step guide

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013

  This guide describes how weADAPT can be used together with the Climate Information Portal (CIP) to quickly and easily access climate data for many locations across Africa, using an interactive map. By linking the two portals, users are able to see climate data context and find data to support their own research, project planning or policy design in a specified place or area.
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  The Low Carbon City Development Program (LCCDP) guidebook: a systems approach to low carbon development in cities

  World Bank, 2013

  This guide aims to help city and urban practitioners in designing and implementing a Low Carbon City Development Program (LCCDP) that complies with the LCCDP Assessment Protocol.
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  Indigenous peoples and governance in REDD+ readiness in Panama

  Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2013

  This brief analyses the REDD+ readiness process in Panama, for the purpose of contributing to a better understanding of the context and causes of the current impasse, as well as to glean useful lessons for stakeholders on the institutional conditions necessary for REDD+ processes to be effective, inclusive and equitable.
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  National climate change legislation: the key to more ambitious international agreements

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013

  The information contained in this paper is drawn from the 3rd GLOBE Climate Legislation Study and direct conversations and correspondence with legislators. Although the factors that determine a country’s negotiating position are many and complex, the authors find that advancing domestic climate change legislation has a positive influence on the high international ambition at the UNFCCC.
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  Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in the Pacific: a practical guide

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2013

  The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project has put together this guide as a response to the need from PACC-participating countries to integrate climate change risks into their national and sector strategies and plans, and budgetary processes.
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  The Pacific experience in developing policy and legislation on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2013

  This study explores and aims to unpack the drivers and process to develop Joint National Action Plans on Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change (JNAPs), primary DRM legislation, and sustainable development plans addressing DRR and CCA in three Pacific island countries: the Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Tonga. It also discusses the experiences implementing these instruments.
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  MRV across multi-level governance: national, provincial & municipal institutions in South Africa

  Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012

  This case study focuses on how sub-national level government in South Africa are engaging with monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of climate projects. Interviews and stakeholder consultations have provided insight into some of the existing reporting practices and highlighted some of the learnings and experiences from local and provincial government.
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  Climate change and health in Israel: adaptation policies for extreme weather events

  Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2013

  There is strong evidence indicating that the frequency and duration of several types of extreme weather events are increasing in the Mediterranean Basin, including Israel.
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  Securing Africa’s land for shared prosperity: a program to scale up reforms and investments

  World Bank, 2013

  Based on worldwide experience and encouraging evidence from country pilots in African countries such as Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania,and Uganda, this new report suggests a series of ten steps that may help to revolutionise agricultural production and eradicate poverty in Africa.

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