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    Helping to better manage the world's oceans

    World Bank, 2012
    This brief published by The World Bank presents the sectoral results for sustainable ocean ecosystem management and the Bank's role in the creation of the Global Partnership for Oceans.
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    China's carbon emission trading: an overview of current development

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2012
    This report finds that while China’s initiative is clearly a positive development, the process is in its infancy, and still has to overcome fundamental issues with China’s energy sector, its business culture, and its legislative and bureaucratic framework that may make this endeavor quite daunting. There is a substantial need for international expertise and technical support.
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    Tracking clean energy progress

    International Energy Agency, 2012
    This report is an early excerpt of the forthcoming Energy Technology Perspectives 2012. It provides a comprehensive tracking of progress in the development and deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency technologies in the power generation, industry, buildings, and transport sectors. Progress is compared against rates required to achieve a 2oC limit in global temperature rise.
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    Beyond Carbon Cowboys: Private sector engagement & experience in REDD+ in Asia

    Forest Carbon Asia, 2011
    How significant is private sector engagement in different countries across Asia and what proportion is it of overall activity on the ground? The private sector is one of the key actors developing forest carbon projects across several countries in Asia along with government agencies, NGOs, and multilateral and bilateral donor projects.
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    Turning the tanker: China's changing economic imperatives and its tentative look to emissions trading

    Sandbag Climate Campaign, 2012
    This report intends to act as a starting point for those wishing to better understand why and how China is slowly changing to adopt progressive policy instruments to tackle growing environmental concerns. Sandbag is particularly interested in the proposal to develop pilot emissions trading schemes as a precursor to establishing a national emissions trading scheme (ETS).
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    Rwanda: NAPA Project Profile

    UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action, 2010
    This paper outlines 7 National Action Plan for Adaptation (NAPA) priority projects in Rwanda: 1. Lands conservation and protection against erosion and floods at districts level of vulnerable regions to climate change 2. Mastering hydro meteo-rological information and early warning systems to control extreme phenomena due to climate change 3.
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    Regulating carbon in Canada: The impact of the federal government's proposed electricity coal performance standards

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2012
    This brief uses original modelling to provide the IISD view of the likely impacts of the proposed regulations to coal-fired power plants in Canada, including: the reduction of emissions, the cost of reductions, and replacement by natural gas. It also looks into the range of possible technologies which could be deployed to fill the gap.
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    A registry of nationally appropraite mitigation actions: goals, outcomes, and institutional requisites

    2012
    This article examines key issues in operationalising a registry of nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) undertaken by developing countries party to the United Nations framework convention on climate change. It analyses goals, outcomes, and institutional prerequisites underlying various proposals to determine how a NAMA mechanism could work in international climate cooperation.
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    Energy management programmes for industry: gaining through saving

    International Energy Agency, 2012
    Industrial energy use accounts for roughly one third of global energy demand. While there is significant potential to decrease energy consumption in this sector, opportunities to improve energy efficiency are still under exploited.
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    Shaping the Durban platform: Latin America and the Caribbean in a future high ambition deal

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    After the longest session on record, governments at the COP17 in Durban in December 2011 agreed to negotiate by 2015 a climate deal to enter into force in 2020. The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action defied predictions that the meeting in South Africa would lead to a collapse of the UN climate talks.

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