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    Keeping REDD+ clean: a step-by-step guide to preventing corruption

    Transparency International, 2012
    This manual helps to understand and address corruption risks associated with forest carbon accounting programmes and strategies at the national level.
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    Going after adaptation co-benefits: a REDD+ programme in Fiji

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) finds that Fiji has an advanced REDD+ policy and planning process, which has also inspired other Pacific countries to engage with REDD+.
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    Direct access to the Adaptation Fund: lessons from accrediting NIEs in Jamaica and Senegal

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    Developing countries can access climate finance directly from the international Adaptation Fund (AF), if their National Implementing Entities (NIEs) meet the high accreditation standards required. This Climate and Development Knowledge Network’s ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ assesses Jamaica’s and Senegal’s experiences in accessing these funds.
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    The politics of climate change in India: narratives of equity and co-benefits

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2012
    According to this paper, India occupies a dual position in global climate politics: as a developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions; and as a rapidly growing economy with rising emissions. Indian climate politics have been mainly shaped around the first perspective, but it is increasingly being forced to tackle with the second.
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    Negotiating climate change

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2012
    Because the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009, failed to reach an agreement on emissions commitments beyond 2012, studying negotiation strategies of country delegations remains relevant.
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    A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    This comprehensive toolkit, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Asia Pacific Secretariat, seeks to provide strategies for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia.
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    Connect the dots: managing the fragmentation of global climate governance

    The Earth System Governance Project, 2012
    The debate about post-2012 global climate governance has been framed largely by proponents and opponents of the policymaking process established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Debate has focused on whether a centralised or a polycentric climate governance architecture will be more effective, efficient, equitable or viable.
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    Designing effective REDD+ safeguard information systems: building on existing systems and country experiences

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2012
    A key determinant of REDD+ success will be the development and implementation of safeguards, including systems for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected. This policy paper is the result of a three-year initiative to develop REDD+ safeguard information systems (SIS).
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    The evolution and governance architecture of the climate change regime

    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Although the general theory of global warming has been a part of scientific research and debate since the end of the nineteenth century, an international legal regime to address the problem of climate change began to develop only in the late 1980s.
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    Climate change, carbon markets and the CDM: a call to action - report of the high-level panel on the CDM policy dialogue

    CDM Policy Dialogue, 2012
    The independent high-level panel on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was established to review past CDM experience and help ensure the readiness and positioning of the CDM to meet the challenges of the post-2012 period.

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