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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

  Child Rights Information Network, 2008

  Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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  Carbon market opportunities for the forestry sector of Africa

  Winrock International, 2008

  African countries have not benefited greatly from the carbon market. This publication analyses how the implementation of the forestry carbon projects could be a major strategy to combat climate change in Africa.
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  Flexible mechanisms for climate change compliance: emission offset purchases under the Clean Development Mechanism

  2008

  This article focuses on a specific type of offset program, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol . It provides an overview of the Kyoto “flexible mechanisms”, explains how CDM offset credits are generated, and also examines the growth of the international carbon market.
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  Trade and climate change linkages: a scoping paper produced for the trade ministers’ dialogue on climate change issues

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2007

  This paper sets out to scope the linkages between trade and investment and climate change. It aims to draw a broad picture on how trade and investment policy might contribute to efforts to address climate change.

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