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    WWF discussion paper: policy approaches and positive incentives for REDD

    Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 2008
    This paper aims to provide an overview to potential policy approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in the post-2012 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In particular, the paper discusses the potential implications or key elements for consideration when determining positive incentives for REDD.
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    Climate change and energy in the Mediterranean

    Plan Bleu, 2008
    An analysis of climate change issues in the Mediterranean region with an emphasis on Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs). SEMCs appear to be more vulnerable to climate change as they are more exposed to accelerated desertification, soil aridity and water scarcity, with economic structures that are more strongly dependent on natural resources.
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    Climate wrongs and human rights. Putting people at the heart of climate-change policy

    Oxfam, 2008
    This briefing proposes that human rights principles provide a guideline for dealing with climate change.
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    Forging a frontier: state of the voluntary carbon markets 2008

    The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace, 2008
    Although the voluntary carbon market is booming, the quantitative data regarding these markets has been sorely lacking.
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    Financing the global climate change response: suggestions for a Climate Change Fund (CCF)

    South Centre, 2008
    This paper examines the prospect of creating a Climate Change Fund (CCF) as an option for financing the global climate change response. It also looks at a breakdown of elements that would comprise the CCF.
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    Climate change impact and disaster vulnerabilities in the coastal areas of Bangladesh

    Equity and Justice Working Group, 2007
    Focusing on the coastal areas of Bangladesh, this report analyses the impact of disasters with specific reference to the effects of climate change. It also looks at the nature of the disasters that frequently occur and discusses efforts to mitigate their impact.
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    Financing sustainable forest management

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2008
    Despite the adoption of many international agreements over the last decades, degradation of forests and deforestation has continued. Since this is largely due to the market's failure to account for forests' multifunctionality, this issue argues that a new, holistic approach is necessary to ensure sustainable forest management (SFM) is adequately supported and financed.
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    Transition to sustainability: towards a humane and diverse world

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    In a changing world, this paper asks the question: "how does one devise strategies for society that will allow a peaceful, equitable, fulfilled human future: a humane future for a diverse earth?" It considers what the environmental movement can do to help make this happen.
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    Potential impacts of a global cap and share scheme on South Africa

    The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, 2008
    This study seeks to identify the initial impact that a global cap and share (C&S) scheme might have on South Africa, based on a set of limiting assumptions. In particular, it attempts to quantify the immediate impacts on energy process, the macro economy, household expenditure and income, industries and the competitiveness of renewable energy sources.
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    Climate politics in the multi-level governance system. Emissions trading and institutional changes in environmental policy-making

    Wuppertal Institute, 2008
    Emissions trading has forged ahead as a climate policy instrument at several policy levels. The aim of the paper is to critically examine whether the rise in emissions trading policy instrument may be described as a ‘success story’ with the help of a number of theoretical hypotheses from the field of multi-level governance research.

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