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    UN-REDD Viet Nam Programme: Designing Benefit Distribution Systems Fact Sheet

    UN-REDD Programme - Viet Nam, 2011
    This fact sheet describes lessons learnt from the development of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) benefit distribution systems (BDSs) in Viet Nam. The fact sheet is a clear and concise resource for policymakers and REDD+ stakeholders.
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    Unlocking forest bonds: a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2011
    This document is an outcome of a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests, specifically focusing on the development and introduction of forest bonds.
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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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    Baseline Report National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development for Rwanda

    2011
    This Baseline Report is the first step in the process of developing a National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development for Rwanda. It provides a snapshot of the country today and the planned initiatives that will take it forward, placing it within the context of climate change.
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    Guidelines for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Agricultural Sector

    2011
    These guidelines are designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on how to: (i) conduct impact and vulnerability assessments in the agricultural sector; (ii) identify opportunities and entry points for integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation(CCMA) measures; (iii) identify, analyse and integrate options for CCMA into the agricultural policy formulation, financing, implementation
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    Guidelines for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Health Sector

    2011
    These guidelines are designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on how to (i) conduct impact and vulnerability assessments in the health sector; (ii) identify opportunities and entry points for integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA) measures; iii) identify, analyse and integrate options for CCMA into the health policy formulation, financing, implementation and evaluati
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    'Agriculture', in Climate change 2007: mitigation

    Cambridge University, 2007
    This contributory chapter of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines the status of climate change mitigation in agriculture and its implications on development, production and consumption trends. It presents regional and global trends in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as future global trends.
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    Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership

    CARE International, 2011
    This policy brief, produced by Care International, outlines a bilateral Reduced Emissions form Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) pilot project – the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). The KFCP project aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation of peat swamp forest by mitigating the frequency and severity of fire, protecting existing peat land and rewetting and r
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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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