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    Towards a global forest partnership: consultation, assessment and recommendations

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This report presents the findings of an independent consultation carried out by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on the World Bank’s preliminary idea of a new global forest partnership.
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    Climate change and global governance

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008
    While at its core climate change remains an environmental issue, the responses required to effectively address it lie far beyond traditional environmental challenges. As such, legitimate questions arise as to whether the appropriate policy/negotiating fora for addressing climate change should be left in the hands of Environment Ministers.
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    Emissions trading, carbon financing and indigenous peoples

    Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2008
    Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing and carbon market processes at the outset – to help them make informed decisions and choices about activities that work for them.
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    In the face of disaster: children and climate change

    International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
    Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and it will be the people in the poorest countries, especially children, who will bear the brunt.
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    The climate regime beyond 2012: reconciling Asian developmental priorities and global climate interests

    Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2008
    With a view to fostering constructive thinking and consensus-building on ways to strengthen the current climate regime, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has been organising a series of national, sub-regional and region-wide consultations since 2005.
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    Agroenergy and biofuels atlas of the Americas

    Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, 2007
    This document is the first volume in a series of three on the current state of agroenergy and bio-fuel production in the Americas. Produced at the request of the Inter-American Ethanol Commission, it presents information about the current state of and outlook for ethanol production in twenty-two countries of the Americas.
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    India renewable energy trends

    Centre for Social Markets, UK, 2008
    India has developed to a stage where it is generally recognised that renewable energy is the most substantial and sustainable solution to its future needs. This paper provides an objective analysis of present day trends in renewable energy in India.
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    Cereal offenders: how the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis, and what they can do to stop it

    ActionAid International, 2008
    Three years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history’, the current global food crisis has left close to a quarter of the world’s population lacking basic food security. In this policy brief, Actionaid calls on G8 leaders to take bold steps in Hokkaido to prevent world hunger spiralling further out of control.
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    Environment and development decision making in Africa 2006-2008

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is the primary ministerial level forum for environment and development issues in Africa. It has helped launch various environmental initiatives at the regional level, and these have greatly influenced environmental policy in Africa.
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    Another inconvenient truth

    Oxfam, 2008
    Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. However, this Oxfam Briefing Paper argues that they are not be a solution to either, and instead are contributing to a third: the current food crisis.

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