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    Indonesia's Forest Moratorium: A Stepping Stone to Better Forest Governance?

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2011
    This document is a 4-month analysis of the ban on new forestry concessions that the Indonesian government announced in May. The purpose of the study is to help stakeholders on all sides interpret the significance of the two-year moratorium and determine what steps are needed to maximise its positive impact.
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    Estimated investment needed to address climate change in Colombia

    Capacity Development for Policy Makers to Address Climate Change Project, 2011
    Climate change induced by anthropogenic activities is a barely doubted reality, and the agriculture sector, which is highly dependent on climate conditions, is a critical sector within the changing face of the earth-atmosphere system.
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    Nordic Council of Ministers report finds high risk of carbon leakage

    Nordic Council of Ministers, 2012
    This report finds that previous studies of carbon leakage by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) underestimate the potential for carbon leakage as a result of policies such as carbon taxes.
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    International technology agreements for climate change

    OECD Development Centre, 2012
    This paper examines the effect of multilateral energy technology initiatives, so called 'Implementing Agreements', on international research collaboration in seven important climate change mitigation technologies. The analysis is conducted using patent data on 33 OECD countries during the period 1970-2009.
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    Financing renewable energy in developing countries: drivers and barriers for private finance in sub-Saharan Africa

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    Released to mark the African launch of the 2012 UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, this report is based on a survey of 38 mostly private sector institutions involved in energy infrastructure finance in developing countries. It outlines the current obstacles to sustainable energy solutions in Africa, including the cost of electricity and difficult grid access.
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    21 Issues for the 21st Century: Results of the UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Environmental Issues

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    Produced every two years, the UNEP Foresight Process is a careful and authoritative ranking of the most important emerging issues related to the global environment. After reviewing and analysing emerging issues, the Foresight Process concluded that the most pressing one is the need to align governance to the challenges of global sustainability.
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    Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20 (1992-2012)

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    This publication was conceived with the idea of showing how the planet has changed in two decades – just twenty years – since decision-makers met at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.
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    Human Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services and the Habitat of the Sumatran Orangutan

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2011
    As countries like Indonesia consider strategies for a policy to implement the REDD+ mechanism, evidence is increasingly pointing to the need for an all-inclusive approach as opposed to establishing and exclusively focusing on protected areas. Command-and-control conservation approaches tend to create sharp distinctions between protected areas and surrounding agriculture.
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    Climate change justice: getting motivated in the last chance saloon

    Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
    The political theory of climate change politics is burgeoning and perspectives of distributive, corrective and retributive justice, alongside techniques such as cost–benefit analysis and risk assessment, are being fruitfully adopted in the search for mitigation and adaptation solutions that deliver justice to current and future generations, and protection for the Earth’s other inhabita
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    Governments, markets and green growth: Energy systems transformation for sustainable prosperity

    Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 2010
    Moving towards low-carbon, high-efficiency energy systems, mitigating climate change, securing energy supplies, and resolving the imbalance of payments caused by energy imports, are impending problems that nations worldwide are striving hard to resolve. This paper addresses three aspects of this problem:

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