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Can payments for avoided deforestation to tackle climate change also benefit the poor?
Overseas Development Institute, 2006Avoided deforestation (AD) has become a global concern with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper discusses financial incentive schemes to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical countries may be established and considers some of the issues from the perspective of host countries and the forest-dependent poor.DocumentComing clean: revealing the UK’s true carbon footprint
Christian Aid, 2007The report argues that official greenhouse gas figures hugely underestimate Britain's contribution to climate change. It shows that adding in emissions from UK-funded operations in other countries – i.e. all emissions associated with FTSE-100 companies - raises the UK's share of the global total from 2% to about 15%.DocumentAsian aspirations for climate regime beyond 2012
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2006This report is based on the second round of 'The Asia-Pacific Consultations on Climate Regime Beyond 2012' in 2006 on specific issues of high priority to the region. These include energy security and development; clean development mechanisms; technology development and transfer, and adaptation to climate change.DocumentGuidance for promoting synergy among activities addressing biological diversity, desertification, land degradation and climate change
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006This report highlights the major biological factors that contribute to ecosystem resilience under the projected impacts of global climate change.DocumentForests and climate change: global understandings and possible responses
Policy Studies Institute, UK, 2006This is the draft report of a scoping study for the Forestry Commission on forests and climate change. The report discusses the role that sustainable forest management can play in mitigating climate change.DocumentInternational trade in biofuels: good for development? and good for environment?
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007This briefing argues that biofuels can help tackle climate change problems and improve rural employment and livelihoods. They may also help diversify energy portfolios, ameliorate trade balances and improve air quality. There are however limitations and problems with biofuels.DocumentBringing developing countries into the energy equation
Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, 2006This compilation of articles on energy and climate change is a selection of contributions from the first edition of Regards sur la Terre, an annual reference in French on the international dimensions of sustainable development.DocumentOperationalising the Kyoto Protocol's Adaptation Fund: a new proposal
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006A number of institutions have been proposed to manage the Adaptation Fund, which will assist developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change. This two-page brief sets out a number of necessary characteristics of those institutions.DocumentAfrica and climate change
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006Even though Africa’s contribution to climate change has been minor, it is exceptionally vulnerable to adverse changes in the environment.DocumentBiofuels for transportation: global potential and implications for sustainable agriculture and energy in the 21st Century
Worldwatch Institute, 2006This paper explores the potential of biofuels in reshaping agricultural development and addressing climate change.Pages