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    Mainstreaming climate change into development in the Pacific

    Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2014
    This paper argues that mainstreaming climate change must mean that climate risks are carefully considered and incorporated into all development planning and practice. It contributes to more sustainable development and more resilient communities; if climate change is not mainstreamed into decision making, there is a real risk that development goals will not be achieved.
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    Leveraging carbon revenue for poverty alleviation

    Energy Research Centre, 2013
    This paper looks at Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) shortcomings for African. It explains that while China and India account for 88 per cent of all CDM credits issued so far, African only has 1 per cent. The main reasons for this disparity are thought to be the high transaction costs and the long and complicated registration, validation, monitoring and verification processes.
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    Green growth and poverty reduction: Policy coherence for pro-poor growth

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2013
    This paper explores the policy coherence for development (PCD) dimensions of green growth strategies pursued by OECD member states. The coherence challenge is to design OECD green growth policies in order to maximise the positive synergies and minimise the negatives effects on pro-poor growth in developing countries.
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    Reconfiguring urban adaptation finance

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014
    This paper examines international, national and municipal mechanisms for financing adaptation, and reveals the systemic barriers that prevent money being channelled into the hands of low-income and highly vulnerable urban residents in low- and middle-income countries, and hinder effective urban adaptation.
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    Lift lives for good: Actions to tackle inequality and climate change

    Oxfam, 2013
    This report focuses on inequality and climate change as two major injustices threatening the long-lasting change to lift people out of poverty and hunger. The climate change focus argues that climate change is prolonging and causing hunger and poverty through its impact on crops and livelihoods.
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    Inequality, economic growth, and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

    African Development Bank, 2013
    The wave of protests and unrests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2011 has continued in different forms. In addition to demands for more economic and political inclusion, the protests had been largely sparked by a refusal to any longer tolerate the gross socio-economic inequality perpetuated by long-entrenched “elite” in power.
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    Impact of climate change on life & livelihood of Dalits: An exploratory study from disaster risk reduction lens

    National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, 2013
    Dalit people are a highly vulnerable group, especially with regard to climate change, given both their high dependence on natural resources, and social, political, and economic exclusion inhibiting their adaptive capacity.
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    Time to change the game: Fossil fuel subsidies and climate

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This Overseas Development Institute report argues that it is time to 'change the game' on fossil fuel subsidies in order to promote inclusive and green growth. It states that fossil fuel subsidies undermine international efforts to avert dangerous climate change and represent a drain on national budgets.
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    The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This report examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It concludes that, without concerted action, there could be up to 325 million extremely poor people living in the 49 countries most exposed to the full range of natural hazards and climate extremes in 2030.
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    Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in the Asia-Pacific

    UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, 2013
    In 2011 the United Nations launched the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative, aiming to achieve universal access to energy, double the rate of efficiency improvement, and double the share of renewables in the global energy mix by 2030.

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