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    Sustainability reporting in emerging markets

    Social Investment Forum, USA, 2008
    With the increasing role of emerging market companies in the global economy, investors increasingly expect certain minimum standards of governance and disclosure to be met. This study investigates the current level of sustainability reporting and disclosure by emerging market companies in three sectors; energy, materials and telecommunications - and from seven countries; Brazil, China
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    Who benefits from GM crops?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.
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    Climate testimonies: voices from communities affected by climate change

    Friends of the Earth International, 2007
    This report presents nine stories about the impact of climate change from different countries around the world. These case studies chronicle specific impacts and provide testimonies of local community members who have dramatic first-hand experience of devastating climate events.
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    Hospital governance in Latin America: results from a four nation survey

    Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007
    This World Bank discussion paper reports on a survey of hospital governance in Latin America involving nearly 400 hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
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    Amazonia

    This site makes information on the Amazon region available to the public, with the aim of helping to make clear the structure of public and private agencies, both Brazilian and foreign, that are activ
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    Local sustainable development effects of forest carbon projects in Brazil and Bolivia: a view from the field

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    This study seeks to bridge critical gaps that remain in the understanding of social and environmental incentives and impacts at the interface between people, forests, and carbon. It explores the extent to which carbon sequestration projects can contribute to national sustainable development, and suggests avenues for project design and implementation to proactively enhance local benefits.
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    Innovative financing mechanisms for conservation and sustainable forest management

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2002
    This newletter contains four short articles discussing the potential for financing carbon sequestration services. The articles particularly focus on this issue in the context of the Kyoto protocol and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Below are the titles of the four articles and some of the key points made by their authors: 
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    Latin America: the downside of the GM revolution

    Center for International Policy, 2007
    The author argues that nowhere in the world have the effects of GM crops been felt as intensely as in South America. Although the soy boom is lauded as a success story by landowners, agribusiness, biotechnology corporations, and South American governments, the article claims this has come at an enormous environmental and social cost.
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    Peri-urban water conflicts: supporting dialogue and negotiation

    IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2007
    As cities expand, a key challenge is securing water supplies for urban populations and disposing of pollution while minimising impacts on peri-urban communities and the environment.  This book describes the conflicts, dialogues and negotiations underway in peri-urban areas of many cities in the South. 
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    Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.

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