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    Accessing international financing for climate change mitigation: a guidebook for developing countries

    UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, 2012
    This guidebook by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project aims to assist developing countries in speeding up the transfer, deployment and diffusion of mitigation technologies, thus enabling countries to contribute to climate change mitigation while pursuing national development goals. The guidebook covers both mitigation projects (e.g.
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    An assessment of gender and women’s exclusion in REDD+ in Nepal

    Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, 2012
    This case study is the first in a new series following an assessment jointly conducted by the Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) and the Himalayan Grassroots Women’s Natural Resource Management Association (HIMAWANTI) Nepal in February 2012.
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    Technologies for climate change mitigation: agriculture sector

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    This guidebook by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project describes crop and livestock management technologies and practices that contribute to climate change mitigation while improving crop productivity and reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers.
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    Linking adaptation and mitigation through community forestry: case studies from Asia

    The Centre for People and Forests, 2012
    Forests play a key role in climate change mitigation and adaptation and there are potential synergies between REDD+ and the ability of populations to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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    Future perfect

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2012
    This United Nations flagship publication launched at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012 aims to raise awareness on sustainability and green growth. The objective is to show renewed political commitment for sustainable development, while assessing progress to date.
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    An evaluation of India's national action plan on climate change

    Centre for Development Finance, 2012
    This report evaluates the design of India’s eight climate missions developed using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008. The report aims to provide policy makers, academics and researchers, civil society groups and other stakeholders a snapshot of the climate missions.
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    Global Transition 2012: challenge papers

    Global Transition 2012, 2012
    These eleven challenge papers by the Global Transition 2012 initiative aim to provide a clear perspective on the priority areas for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20. Topics discussed in the papers include the green economy, global inequality, the blue economy and green jobs and skills. The first paper in the series focuses on the green economy.
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    Addressing financing for agriculture: ensuring a triple dividend for smallholders

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2012
    The agricultural sector plays a critical role in food security, poverty reduction and economic growth, especially in developing countries, where agriculture is fundamental to sustainable development.
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    MRV under the UN climate regime: paper tiger or catalyst for continual improvement?

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
    MRV (monitoring, reporting and verification) was one of the most contentious issues at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and it has remained a highly debated issue in the following negotiations.
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    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

    Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010
    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 and beyond is whether the different positions can be reconciled.

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