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  Corruption risks and experiences in REDD+ financial benefit sharing mechanisms

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014

  The success of REDD+ hinges on providing forest users with positive monetary and nonmonetary incentives or benefits that both motivate behavioral change regarding forest use and help offset the various costs associated with implementing REDD+.
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  What we have lost and cannot become: societal outcomes of coastal erosion in southern Belize

  Ecology and Society, 2015

  Countries in the Caribbean region, including Belize, are vulnerable to coastal erosion. Experts and scholars have assessed the effects of coastal erosion in the region in physical and economic terms, most often from a sectoral perspective. However, less attention has been directed to the localized and nonquantifiable effects of coastal erosion in the region.
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  Forest carbon rights and corruption: what donors can do to minimize the risks

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015

  Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about forest tenure, carbon rights determine who can make decisions about REDD+, who can benefit, how and to whom the carbon is sold, and under what circumstances. Debates about forest carbon rights are strongly linked to debates about equity in REDD+.
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  The foreign policy of carbon sinks: carbon capture and storage as foreign policy in Norway

  Science Direct, 2014

  Norway is among a handful of countries with an explicit policy to promote carbon capture and storage (CCS) at both national and international levels. This paper investigates the internal and external driving forces behind Norway's efforts to advance CCS as a global climate change mitigation option.
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  REDD+ as performance-based aid: general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway

  2013

  REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets.
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  Maize response to fertilizer dosing at three sites in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

  2014

  This study examines the agronomic response, efficiency and profitability of fertilizer microdosing in maize.
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  Elephants over the cliff: explaining wildlife killings in Tanzania

  Elsevier, 2015

  Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other Africancountries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we showin this case study, however, not all violence against elephants is driven by the ivory trade.
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  Technology Transfer in India: CBD, institutions, actors, typologies and perceptions. Sector: Herbal Medicines (biopharmaceuticals, botanicals and personal care products and cosmetics)

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  The Convention on Biologcal Diversity (CBD) recognises that both access to and transfer of technologies are essential for the attainment of its objectives. This report explores a number of issues related to technology transfer with a particular focus on India asking questions on: typologies, actors, and institutions, perceptions and mechanisms.
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  REDD+ in India: managing carbon storage and biodiversity safeguarding in national forest politics?

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  The report analyses India's approach towards the mechanism on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhance-ment of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), with particular attention to India's handling of both carbon and biodiversity matters.
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  Power to protect? Participation in decentralized conservation management: the case of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  This report is based on a case study of participation in and decentralized management of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) in north-eastern Nepal.

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