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    Policy update: nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets

    Ecofys, 2012
    Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets are currently developing in parallel with increasing debate on how to link the two approaches. This paper explores the role carbon markets may play for NAMAs and the key issues around the compatibility of the two concepts.
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    REDD+ finance delivery: lessons from early experience

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2011
    This paper summarises the current status of international public financial support and the progress made in the development of multilateral and bilateral delivery mechanisms for REDD+. The paper states that though it is difficult to evaluate the outcomes of specific financial support, the following lessons can be identified from early experience.
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    Catalyzing low carbon development? The clean technology fund

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2009
    This working paper analyses the first set of clean technology investment plans from Egypt, Mexico and Turkey and makes the case for greater emphasis on institutional capacity and governance in measuring programme results.
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    What role for public finance international in climate change mitigation

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    This paper considers how public finance in developed countries can best be used to support climate change mitigation in developing countries. It describes the role of public finance in climate change mitigation in relation to other instruments and analyses market failures and barriers to mitigation technologies that could be overcome by public finance.
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    Coping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level as the unpredictability of weather conditions increases.
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    Farming’s climate smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011
    This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and the shifting distribution of pests and diseases can all be attributed in part to the increase in emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities.
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    Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in Nepal's Forest Sector: How can rural Communities benefit?

    Intercooperation, 2009
    This paper outlines options for rural communities to participate in climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the forest sector in Nepal.
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    Ghana’s Second National Communication to the UNFCCC

    2011
    The preparation of the Second National Communication (SNC) is in furtherance to meeting its obligation under the UNFCCC. The SNC is meant to build on, update and report additional information subsequent to the Initial National Communication (INC) and facilitated by the sets of guidelines contained in the annex to decision 17/CP.8.
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    Climate change, water and food security

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    This report summarises current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. It examines the implications for local and national food security and the methods and approaches for assessing climate change impacts on water and agriculture.
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    Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal

    International Water Management Institute, 2010
    This working paper aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of how the impacts of CC will be realized at different scales in Nepal (from household livelihoods to national food security), and the many institutions governing the ultimate adaptation process. SectionI, Background, provides background information on Nepal.

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