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    Transport, trade and climate change: carbon footprints, fuel subsidies and market-based measures

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011
    Transport contributes significantly to global GHG emissions and measures to mitigate these emissions are essential. This paper discusses several measures that can contribute to mitigating emissions related to trade and transport. These measures include: carbon footprinting, elimination of fossil fuel subsidies and market-based measures (MBMs). The main conclusions include:
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    Gender Equity and Renewable Energies

    International Conference for Renewable Energies, 2004
    Can renewable energies contribute to gender equity so that women and men benefit fairly from access to energy services? This paper argues that providing improved access to energy services for lighting,
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    Modeling choice of fuelwood source among rural households in Malawi: a multinomial probit analysis

    Eldis Document Store, 2010
    In Malawi, biomass energy accounts for more than 90% of the total primary energy consumption, and forests contribute nearly 75% of the total biomass supply. This paper addresses two questions: what determines Malawian household's choice of fuel-wood source and, what are the environmental consequences of fuel-wood collection from Malawi’s forest reserves?
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    International Water Management Institute (IWMI) research reports

    International Water Management Institute, 2011
    Research reports from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Farmer-based financing of operations in the Niger Valley irrigation schemes Bailout with white revolution or sink deeper?: groundwater depletion and impacts in the Moga District of Punjab, India Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrig
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    Mapping of Norwegian civil society organizations working on energy and sustainable development

    ECON Pöyry, 2011
    This study provides a mapping of Norwegian CSOs working on energy and development issues in developing countries and an overview assessment of how the CSOs fit with the priorities of the Norwegian Government’s Clean Energy for Development Initiative.
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    China, India, South Africa, Brazil (BASIC): Crucial for the global environment. Commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

    ECON Pöyry, 2011
    This study, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, aims to assess why and how the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) are important for the global environment. The study shall also provide an overview of environmental policy in the BASIC countries.
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    Mitigation analysis for the forestry and land use sector

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
    Forests in Malawi play an important role in both social and economic development of the country. Among the environmental services provided by forests is carbon sequestration. Carbon sequestration is the uptake and storage of carbon on land which reduces atmospheric accumulation and thus delays its impact on the global climate.
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    Atmosphere-land surface interactions and their influence on extreme rainfall and potential abrupt climate change over southern Africa

    2011
    The paper presents an investigation on the influence of land cover changes on rainfall variability, and in particular daily rainfall extremes in southern Africa. It examines the effect of increasing the amount of vegetation over the majority of southern Africa, using the Regional Climate Model (RCM) and General Circulation Model (GCM).
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    Beyond carbon: rights-based safeguard principles in law

    Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2010
    The aim of climate change mitigation and adaptation programs are to protect all the Earth’s inhabitants from the serious threats posed by climate change. Safeguards ensure both mitigation and adaptation activities truly address these purposes.
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    The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
    This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population (classified by gender, ethnic group, age group, place of residence and income stratum) as a means of helping to pinpoint the areas in which efforts must be redoubled

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