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  Climate change-related vulnerabilities and local environment public health tracking through GEMSS: a web-based visualisation tool

  Science Direct, 2011

  This paper presents a novel application of Geospatial Emergency Management Support System (GEMSS). This is a geospatial tool that integrates multiple data sources, allowing for the streamlined visualisation of environmental risk, socio-economic and demographic vulnerability, baseline mortality, and policy intervention measures.
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  Infrastructure in the face of climate change: What implications for long term investors?

  CDC Climat, 2010

  This paper explores the role that infrastructure plays in the fight against climate change. Infrastructure can serve a double purpose in the face of climate change: “green infrastructure” can help reduce climate change by limiting the greenhouse gas emissions produced, while “adapted infrastructure” contributes to the adaptation of a region to the climate of the future.
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  Predictability, equitability and adequacy of post-2012 international climate financing proposals

  Science Direct, 2011

  This study assesses four proposals to generate funds for international climate financing in developing countries according to three criteria: adequacy, predictability and equitability. The focus year is 2020, in which USD 100 billion should be available for climate financing according to the Copenhagen Accord. The four financing proposals assessed include:
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  A study on energy issues in the Caribbean: Potential for mitigating climate change

  2009

  When speaking of the Caribbean in the context of climate change the former is usually viewed as being a victim of the latter. While this is mostly true, what is often omitted is the fact that the region can and will play its part in global mitigation efforts - thereby taking a more proactive approach to its future.
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  The right to development in a climate constrained world: the Greenhouse Development Rights framework

  Springerlink, 2010

  This paper suggests a Greenhouse Development Rights (GDR) framework to ensure the right to sustainable human development whilst driving global emissions reductions.
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  REDD monitoring, reporting and verification systems in Nepal: gaps, issues and challenges

  ForestAction, Nepal, 2010

  This paper analyses the existing forest resource monitoring system in Nepal with a view to identifying possible issues and challenges for designing and implementing a measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) system for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) projects.
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  The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2010

  This paper explores the role of patent protection in influencing mitigation action through the development and diffusion of a large number of clean technologies. The authors first review the historical evidence on the role of patents to foster innovation and international technology transfer.
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  The new competition for land: Food, energy, and climate change

  Science Direct, 2011

  This paper discusses the competition for land resources and the issue of land-use change due to the rising demand for food and energy, specifically for the transport sector. The linkages between land, food, and energy become particularly complex within the context of climate change.
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  Public access to comprehensive greenhouse gas mitigation information: The example of climate-relevant investments

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2011

  This paper argues that to address greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement and management, and the broader climate mitigation challenge, there is a pressing need for public access to additional types of mitigation-relevant information.
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  Renewables and climate change mitigation: Irreversible energy investment under uncertainty and portfolio effects

  Science Direct, 2010

  Ongoing negotiations under the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) centre around the possibilities for stabilisation of greenhouse gases at a 'safe' level. New energy technologies are assumed to make major contributions to this goal. However, this paper notes that in the light of scientific uncertainty (e.g.

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