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  Truth-telling by Third-Party Audits and the Response of Polluting firms: Experimental Evidence from India

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013

  In many regulated markets, firms choose and pay private, third-party auditors, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by reforming the system of environmental audits for industrial plants.
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  China's regional carbon emissions change over 1997-2007

  Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010

  The increased demand for energy in China has generated concomitant increase of carbon emissions, which poses an unprecedented challenge to China’s, and even global, sustainable development. In this paper, from the perspective of provincial carbon emissions, the authors analyse China’s carbon emissions changes during 1997-2007 based on the index decomposition analysis method.
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  Green economy and trade: trends, challenges and opportunities

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013

  Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportunities and barriers inherent in a transition to a green economy, and to assist all stakeholders to build capacity.
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  Unlocking forest bonds: a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2011

  This document is an outcome of a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests, specifically focusing on the development and introduction of forest bonds.
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  Policy update: nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets

  Ecofys, 2012

  Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets are currently developing in parallel with increasing debate on how to link the two approaches. This paper explores the role carbon markets may play for NAMAs and the key issues around the compatibility of the two concepts.
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  How vulnerable is India’s trade to possible border carbon adjustments in the EU?

  Kluwer Law International, 2012

  This document is an empirical analysis of India’s trade vulnerabilities to a possible border carbon adjustment scheme implemented by the European Union (EU).
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  A method to finance a global climate fund with a harmonized carbon tax

  Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010

  This paper introduces the problem of climate funding, explores the risks associated with cap and trade offsets and expands on the idea of a harmonised carbon tax and global climate fund.
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  Win-win scenarios at the climate-development interface: challenges and opportunities for stove replacement programs through carbon finance

  Social Science Research Network, 2010

  This paper reviews the possibilities for win-win climate and development outcomes in programmes that distribute improved efficiency cookstoves (ICS) with the use of carbon finance.
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  Liberalisation of trade in environmental goods for climate change mitigation: the sustainable development context

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2008

  This paper surveys the key issues surrounding liberalised trade in low-carbon goods. It begins with an overview of progress to date in the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) negotiations on environmental goods and services (EGS). The paper also asks about the limitations of the liberalisation approach.
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  Carbon offsetting trends survey 2008

  EcoSecurities, 2008

  This report is a compilation of responses from over 65 large and multinational organisations, covering a wide variety of geographies and industry sectors. The primary quantitative research conducted in this study provides industry insight and benchmarks regarding some of the strategies that are being utilised to help the transition to a low carbon economy. Key points include:

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