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    Biodiversity and Development of the Hydropower Sector: Lessons from the Vietnamese Experience

    International Centre for Environmental Management, 2010
    Climate change prompts policymakers to pursue a low carbon energy pathway in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, this can lead to trade-offs with other sustainability objectives. This policy brief outlines key issues relating to biodiversity and the development of the hydropower sector in Vietnam. It is aimed at informing policymakers, civil society and donors.
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    The new general law on climate change in Mexico: leading national action to transition to a green economy

    International Development Law Organisation, 2012
    Mexico passed the general law on climate change on 19 April 2012, establishing a new leading global legal best practice to address climate change and transition to a green economy. The new law was only the second climate change law in the world. This working brief by the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO) presents a legal analysis of Mexico's general law on climate change.
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    Economics of Climate Change in Rwanda

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2009
    The ‘Economics of Climate Change in Rwanda’, funded by DFID and undertaken by the Stockholm Environment Institute together with local partners, has assessed the impacts and economics costs of climate change, the costs and benefits of adaptation and pathways of low carbon growth for Rwanda. This report is set out as follows: Chapter 1 presents the introduction.
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    Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) Letter

    UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action, 2010
    This letter is written by the Executive Chair of Indonesia’s National Council on Climate Change, Rachmat Witoelar; it outlines Indonesia’s Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). NAMAs are voluntary greenhouse gas reduction activities set out by Non-Annex 1 Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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    An institutional analysis of biofuel policies and their social implications: lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
    This paper examines how developing countries have attempted to promote rural development through biofuel production, what social outcomes those strategies have created and what lessons can be learned. This is done by comparing the contexts of Brazil, India and Indonesia; three countries with important agricultural sectors that have put large-scale biofuel programmes in place.
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    Renewables 2012: global status report

    REN21 Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, 2012
    The latest edition of the flagship publication of the Renewable Energy Global Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) illustrates continued growth in all types of renewables across sectors and countries, with global investments in renewables breaking records in 2011 as costs continue to fall and their deployment expands geographically.
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    Low-Carbon Africa: Rwanda

    Christian Aid, 2011
    This report is one of six African country case studies commissioned by Christian Aid to support the report Low-Carbon Africa: Leapfrogging to a Green Future. The document includes a review of the current situation of energy in Rwanda (energy balance and energy access, renewables potential) and its relation with a low carbon development path.
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    Policy Brief: Low carbon growth for Ghana

    ECN, 2010
    Low carbon growth seeks to promote economic development while keeping emissions low, or lower. Although Ghana is not responsible for the greenhouse effect, low carbon growth can be beneficial to Ghana. In the short term, pursuing low carbon growth helps identify options that have direct economic and development benefits and can open access to international climate support.
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    World Resources Report Case Study. Maintenance of Hydropower Potential in Rwanda Through Ecosystem Restoration

    World Resources Report, 2011
    Although it is not possible to state with confidence how climate change may alter precipitation patterns in Rwanda, it is clear that this process will affect the management and generation capacity of its hydroelectric sector in the future.
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    Pre-feasibility study for an improved cook stoves project in Northern Ghana

    CARE International, 2009
    A contract was signed between the Danish Energy Agency and CARE Danmark on 10 June 2009 to carry out a pre-feasibility study for a CDM Program of Activities (PoA) on improved cook stoves in Northern Ghana.

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