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  Promoting the development of the South in the trade and climate regimes

  2008

  This South Centre bulletin highlights the need for an integrated approach to addressing the challenges of development and climate change.
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  How to include terrestrial carbon in developing nations in the overall climate change solution

  The Terrestrial Carbon Group, 2008

  This paper argues that terrestrial carbon (including trees, soil, and peat) can be used to provide up to 25% of the climate change solution. The document focuses on the role and use of terrestrial carbon and provides guiding principles for terrestrial carbon to be effectively included in the international response to climate change, which would support:
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  Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asian timber concessions: a critical evaluation of policy mechanisms and guidelines.

  Ecology and Society, 2008

  This paper assesses the tools and guidelines that have been developed to promote sustainable forest management (SFM) and the progress that has been made in Southeast Asia toward better logging practices. It specifically focuses on practices relevant to biodiversity issues.
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  Controlling illegal logging: using public procurement policy

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2008

  The shared responsibility of timber-consuming and timber-producing countries in restricting trade in illegal timber has been recognised since the early days of the international focus on illegal logging. Consumer countries contribute to the problem by providing markets for the products of illegal activities, and by failing to implement systems to prevent their import.
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  The liberalisation of trade in environmental goods and services in the ESCWA and Arab regions

  Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007

  This study examines the implications of liberalising trade in environmental goods in the ESCWA and Arab regions. Based on an assessment of the market and the changes in tariff revenue that could be generated by such a liberalisation, the study argues that a single reference list on the various types of environmental goods should be established for all ESCWA member states.
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  Trading nature: a report, with case studies, on the contribution of wildlife trade management to sustainable livelihoods and the Millennium Development Goals.

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008

  This report outlines the links between well managed, sustainable wildlife trade and the Millennium Development Goals. The worldwide value of wildlife trade has been estimated at USD300 billion, which excludes the domestic trade that takes place as well as the value of wildlife that is harvested for direct consumption.
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  Bad deal for the planet. Why carbon offsets aren't working. . . and how to create a fair global climate accord

  International Rivers Network, 2008

  To what extent has the Kyoto’s carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, been successful in promoting sustainable development?
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  China in Africa policy briefing: China’s environmental footprint in Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008

  Along with its economic presence, China has rapidly expanded its environmental footprint in Africa. This policy brief discusses and analyses the concerns about the impacts of China’s economic expansion on Africa’s environment. Concerns over China’s environmental footprint in Africa have arisen for at least five reasons:
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  Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to save civilization

  Earth Policy Institute, 2008

  This publication argues that the roots of the current environmental dilemmas lie in the enormous growth of the human enterprise over the last century. The author presents an alternative plan to save civilisation, which is ambitious not only in scale, but also in the speed with which it must be implemented.
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  Going carbon neutral: how the retail carbon offsets market can further global warming mitigation goals

  The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace, 2008

  Based on an initiative taken by two environmentally minded entrepreneurs, there is now a long line of efforts to encourage individuals and companies to go partially or entirely “carbon neutral” by developing products and services with carbon offsets built in.

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