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  Can the clean development mechanism attain both cost effectiveness and sustainable development objectives?

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2001

  This paper looks at both the back ground of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and discusses to what extent its current design allows it to achieve both its objectives as defined in the Kyoto Protocol: to promote sustainable development in host developing countries, and to improve global cost-effectiveness by assisting developed countries in meeting their Kyoto targets.The first part of the
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  Vital climate graphics Africa: the impacts of climate change

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  This report uses graphics to illustrate long term climate change and adverse impacts in Africa, the science of climate change and vulnerability and trends in extreme events which Africa is facingThe latest report (Third Assessment Report) of the UNEP/WMO Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes a warming of approximately 0.7°C over most of the African continent during the 20th cen
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  Developing strategies for climate change: the UNEP country studies on climate change impacts and adaptations assessment

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2002

  This report summarises four country studies, carried out in Antigua and Barbuda, Cameroon, Estonia, and Pakistan.
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  A critique of QMM’s social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) for the Fort Dauphin titanium project

  Friends of the Earth, 2001

  This article provides a critique of the social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) conducted by QMM as part of its proposal to initiate titanium mining in Madagascar.
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  Review of an ilmenite mining project in southeast Madagascar

  Conservation International, 2001

  At the request of QIT-Fer Madagascar Minerals (QMM), this paper reviews the company’s social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) in order to assess how responsible the proposed project is in relation to a wide range of environmental and social issuesThe paper commends a number of QMM policies and activities as hallmarks of responsible large-scale mining, including:conducting a th
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  General comments on the social and environmental impact assessment of QMM’s proposed titanium project in Madagascar

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  In response to the social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) conducted by QIT-Fer Madagascar Minerals (QMM), this article assesses whether it is possible for the mining company to live up to its claims of being able to provide environmentally sustainable and socially responsible mining in Madagascar.The article finds that overall the SEIA:
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  Comparing developing countries under potential carbon allocation schemes

  Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2002

  Under the current climate negotiations, developing countries do not have binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, however this paper argues that to stabilise atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, all countries will eventually need to be included in the effort to limit climate change. So what might this mean for developing countries?
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  Oil: a life cycle analysis of it health and environmental impacts

  Harvard Medical School, 2002

  This report attempts to provide a framework for evaluating the true costs of our use of oil.
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  Environment guide and screening procedures

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This is a revised and updated version of DFID’s Environmental Guide. It provides advice on planning and managing the environmental appraisal of DFID interventions.
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  Valuing forests: a review of methods and applications in developing countries

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 2003

  This report focuses on recent advances in the economic evaluation of forestry activities and, in particular, on how techniques for valuing non-timber forest benefits in monetary terms can assist the development of forest policy and management systems.The report presents the empirical literature which suggests that non-timber and non-market values of forests in developing countries are often sig

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