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    New market mechanisms: prerequisites for implementation

    Wuppertal Institute, 2012
    The Durban conference decided to establish a new market based mechanism that is to cover a broad segment of a country’s economy. The question is, however, which developing countries would actually be able to implement such a mechanism. The introduction of the EU emission trading system highlighted the many challenges that even advanced developed countries face when establishing a carbon market.
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    Sustainable, resource efficient cities: making it happen!

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    The cities of the 21st century are the largest sites of human settlement today and are increasingly acting as critical nexus points of social, economic, ecological and technological change.
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    Cities and carbon finance: feasibility study on an urban CDM

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    Cities are home to more than half the global population and are responsible for 60 to 80 per cent of energy use and more than 75 per cent of carbon emissions. This report examines how cities can better access climate finance through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It recommends reforming the existing CDM to allow for methodologies geared towards cities.
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    Baseline Report National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development for Rwanda

    2011
    This Baseline Report is the first step in the process of developing a National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development for Rwanda. It provides a snapshot of the country today and the planned initiatives that will take it forward, placing it within the context of climate change.
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    The emerging policy for green economy and social development in Limpopo, South Africa

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
    This paper evaluates the emerging green economy in South Africa, using ideas from the concept of sustainable rural livelihoods, which are intimately connected to ecological services many developing countries.
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    Low carbon growth country studies – getting started: experience from six countries

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2009
    This document is a review of the low carbon growth studies conducted in six emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa. These countries, with the help of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), have initiated country specific studies to assess development goals in conjunction with greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities.
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    The economics of low carbon, climate resilient patterns of growth in developing countries: a review of the evidence

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2010
    This literature review assesses the extent to which developing countries can make the transition towards low or lower patterns of growth. It explores the potential impacts of climate change on economic growth and the investment needs for increasing growth resilience. The paper outlines the challenge of establishing patterns of low carbon growth and discusses the cost of greenhouse gas mitigation.
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    The Economics of Climate Change in Central America: Summary 2010

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    The study establishes a macroeconomic scenario without climate change trend against which the cost of the phenomenon is measured. It uses "bottom up" impact analysis of key sectors and areas such as agriculture, water resources, extreme events and ecosystem services, making later an economic valuation as a function of GDP.
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    Low-carbon development for the least developed countries

    London School of Economics, 2011
    The contribution of the least developed countries (LDCs) to the greenhouse gas problem is very small.
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    Inclusive green growth: the pathway to sustainable development

    World Bank, 2012
    According to this report by the World Bank, inclusive green growth is the pathway to sustainable development.

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