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    Global Transition 2012

    The Global Transition 2012 is an international network that aims to catalyse a global transition by building a community of civil society organisations across the globe to promote and deliver a rapid
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    Institutional innovations in African smallholder carbon projects

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012
    According to this report, climate funds for reducing greenhouse gas emissions can benefit small farmers and help achieve development objectives. In the detailed study of six African agricultural carbon projects, researchers found that communities are benefiting from a range of activities related to planting and managing trees on farms.
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    Municipal ICT capacity and its impact on the climate-change affected urban poor: the case of Mozambique

    World Bank, 2012
    This report highlights the role of information and communication technology (ICT) to prevent the effects of climate change related emergencies in Africa. The objective of the case study on Mozambique is to uncover the pattern of municipal ICT impact that may exist in other low capacity countries with similar political economy structures in connection with leveraging ICTs in public sectors.
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    Public climate finance: a survey of systems to monitor and evaluate climate finance effectiveness

    Climate Policy Initiative, 2012
    Multilateral and bilateral intermediaries are a crucial part of the climate finance landscape. In general, intermediaries are working hard to improve their monitoring and evaluation systems, but there is significant room for improvement, particularly to ensure that monitoring and evaluation is applied across the full lifecycle of projects and programmes.
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    A practical framework for planning pro-development climate policy

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    MCA4climate is an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which provides practical assistance to governments in preparing their climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies.
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    Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)

    The Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD) promotes people-centred sustainable development by innovation, application and advancement of appropriate scientific, technical and local k
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    World economic and social survey 2012: in search of new development finance

    United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division, 2012
    The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) 2012 focuses on innovative ways to finance sustainable development. It notes that while the need for aid remains high, many donors have cut back on development assistance due to difficult financial times. The report highlights that the potential for innovative development finance is particularly high in the area of fighting climate change.
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    A toolkit to assess proposed benefit sharing and revenue distribution schemes of community REDD+ projects

    REDD-net, 2012
    This toolkit aims to strengthen the ability of community-based institutions to address REDD+ issues, with benefit sharing being a key feature in the design of equitable REDD+ policies and projects at both national and community levels.
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    A human crisis: climate change and human rights in Latin America

    Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, 2011
    This report describes how climate change effects will damage human rights in Latin America. It seeks to aid the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in its investigation of the links between human rights and climate change.
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    China: improving the local-central climate governance nexus

    Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, 2012
    China's national energy and carbon intensity targets are well known, as are the central government’s commitments to low carbon development. The recent low carbon policy developments in China have relied primarily on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) defined by the central government.

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