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    Climate Change Justice: Getting Motivated in the Last Chance Saloon

    2011
    A key reason for pessimism with respect to greenhouse gas emissions reduction relates to the ‘motivation problem’, whereby those who could make the biggest difference prima facie have the least incentive to act because they are most able to adapt: how can we motivate such people (and thereby everyone else) to accept, indeed to initiate, the changes to their lifestyles that are required for effecti
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    Cashing in on Climate Change: Political Theory and Global Emissions Trading

    2011
    Global climate change raises profound questions for social and political theorists. The human impacts of climate change are sufficiently broad, and will exacerbate inequalities between rich and poor countries despite the limited role of the latter in their origins.
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    Climate Policy is Dead, Long Live Climate Politics!

    2010
    In this commentary, the author argues that the alleged failure of the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, and in particular the role played by the developing countries, should be embraced as a political accomplishment opening up a moment of political opportunity.
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    Jamaica’s initial climate change technology needs assessment

    2004
    This initial technology needs assessment is part of the larger process involved in the preparation and compilation the national communication to the COP members under the UNFCCC. This assessment consisted of six related activities. The first activity is a preliminary overview of the sectors which are to be analysed.
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    Sustainable development and a dwindling carbon space

    Springerlink, 2010
    This paper provides a historical overview of the issue of equity and fair allocation in climate negotiations. The author addresses questions related to sharing of carbon space between countries and/or efforts to stay within it, in the context of sustainable development.
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    The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

    Nature [journal], 2010
    This paper describes a process for creating a new set of scenarios to understand future climate change. It notes that the objective of generating these scenarios is to better support policy decisions that are robust under a wide range of possible futures.
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    NAMA crediting: How to assess offsets from and additionality of policy-based mitigation actions in developing countries

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) are likely to generate greenhouse gas emission credits after 2013. To guarantee credibility of the international climate policy regime, this paper argues that robust measurement, reporting and verification procedures are required.
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    A Green Venture Fund to finance clean technology for developing countries

    Social Science Research Network, 2011
    This paper discusses the formulation of a public-private Green Venture Fund (GVF) for the development, deployment, and diffusion of clean technology for developing and low-income countries. The proposed fund will act like a model ‘fund of funds’ supported by public equity and will promote the dual objectives of innovation and commercialisation of clean technologies.
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    Tackling long-term climate change together: The case of flexible CCS and fluctuating renewable energy

    Science Direct, 2011
    This paper analyses the long-term role of the flexible operation of post-combustion capture for coal power plants in balancing the fluctuating nature of renewable energy technologies, and the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector.
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    Forests and climate change in Latin America: linking adaptation and mitigation

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2011
    This paper examines opportunities for linking climate change adaptation and mitigation in tropical forests, and understanding the influence exerted by adaptation activities on the mitigation potential and vice-versa. Through case-studies in Latin America, the authors explore various approaches and motivations for linking adaptation and mitigation.

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