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  Powerful synergies: gender equality, economic development and environmental sustainability

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  This collection of contributions by gender and sustainable development experts explores the interconnections between gender equality and sustainable development across a range of sectors and issues such as energy, health, education, food security, climate change, human rights, consumption and production patterns, and urbanisation.
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  Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

  Science Direct, 2012

  The current institutional framework for sustainable development is, according to this article, not strong enough to bring about the swift transformative progress that is needed.
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  REDD+ in Vietnam: integrating national and subnational approaches

  Forest Trends, 2012

  According to this report, it is still unclear how a future mechanism on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) may be implemented in practice, and in particular how to design REDD+ to deliver ecosystem conservation and restoration in an economically efficient and socially sustainable way.
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  Developing dimensions: state of the voluntary carbon markets 2012

  Forest Trends, 2012

  This report finds that in 2011 both economic factors and price competition led many European buyers to the relatively inexpensive market for offsets from Asian clean energy projects. Buyers in the United States purchased more credits than companies in any other country, supporting domestic projects to sustain climate action in the absence of a federal cap-and-trade scheme.
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  Developing a climate-smart agriculture strategy at the country level: lessons from recent experience

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  This paper presents recent experiences of country level implementation of climate smart agriculture (CSA) to identify some key lessons to incorporate into ongoing CSA activities in developing countries.
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  Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships

  Overseas Development Institute, 2012

  These challenge papers aim to address two key questions: how has the development challenge changed, and how could it be understood for the future; and what are the implications for development agencies and development partnerships? The first paper explores the challenges facing global development.
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  Low carbon development and poverty: exploring poverty alleviating mitigation action in developing countries

  Energy Research Centre, 2012

  Climate change and poverty mostly fall into the adaptation category in the current research literature and relevant policy making due to the assumption that poor countries produce only low carbon emissions.
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  Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience. Part I of this issue is a special chapter on green urbanisation in Asia.
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  Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)

  Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance helps to develop cost-effective ways to reduce carbon emissions from energy supply and use by mobilising
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  Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific: an institutional and policy analysis

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012

  Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) both share a common focus: reducing the vulnerability of communities and contributing to sustainable development. This study provides an analysis of the current level of integration of DDR and CCA in the Pacific region, with an emphasis on the institutional and policy environment.

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