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    India renewable energy trends

    Centre for Social Markets, UK, 2008
    India has developed to a stage where it is generally recognised that renewable energy is the most substantial and sustainable solution to its future needs. This paper provides an objective analysis of present day trends in renewable energy in India.
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    Forum for the future

    Forum for the future is a charity working to promote sustainable development.
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    Establishing a global carbon market

    World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2008
    This paper presents a discussion on the creation of the global carbon market. It observes that action to address climate change is already happening, and the pace at which initiatives are developing is increasing. Many initiatives are in the form of a response to national emissions objectives. Some are driven voluntarily by business.
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    Getting to zero: defining corporate carbon neutrality

    Forum for the future, 2008
    As concerns about climate change grow, the concept of “carbon neutrality” has captured the corporate imagination and is being embraced by organisations as diverse as airlines, ice-cream makers and reinsurance giants.
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    The corporate ecosystem services review: guidelines for identifying business risks & opportunities arising from ecosystem change

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2008
    This paper points out that ecosystems provide businesses with numerous benefits or “ecosystem services.” Companies not only impact ecosystems and the services they provide but also depend on them.
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    Planning for change: guidelines for national programmes on sustainable consumption and production

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
    In the context of climate change, it has become clear that our global community urgently needs to adopt more sustainable life-styles to both reduce the use of natural resources and CO2 emissions.
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    The corporate climate communications report 2007

    CorporateRegister.com, 2008
    Using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports published between September 2006 and December 2007 by Global FT500 companies as a basis, this report examines corporate climate communications. The intention is not to document or benchmark performance, but to contrast disclosures across business sectors and regions, and to examine mitigation measures taken to give new insights into the issues.
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    Innovative financing mechanisms for conservation and sustainable forest management

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2002
    This newletter contains four short articles discussing the potential for financing carbon sequestration services. The articles particularly focus on this issue in the context of the Kyoto protocol and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Below are the titles of the four articles and some of the key points made by their authors: 
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    China's energy conditions and policies

    Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, 2006
    China is now the world's second-largest energy producer and consumer and plays an increasingly important role in maintaining global energy security. This government White Paper sets out China's policy to develop a modern energy industry that takes both resource conservation and environmental protection into consideration. The paper covers:
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    The trouble with travel and trees

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Many air travellers and people working in the travel industry see carbon offsetting as a viable green solution to the problem. But how accurate is that view? This briefing paper argues that offsetting schemes based on tree planting or forest conservation may trigger a cascade of other problems:

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