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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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  Financing climate actions in developing countries: what role is there for NAMAS?

  CDC Climat, 2012

  This report by CDC Climate Research aims to highlight issues surrounding the financing of climate policies in developing countries and how nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) could be used as a part of the solutions. The report examines the definition and monitoring of climate financing commitments, how to ensure transparency and whether public funding alone will be sufficient.
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  Fiduciary responsibility. Legal and practical aspects of integrating environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment

  United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2009

  This report is about identifying future challenges within the financial system in order to reduce further crises like the Natural Resources Crisis. The authors integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment analysis in order to engage with companies to promote sustainable business practices.
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  Human rights and private sector development: a discussion paper

  North-South Institute, 2008

  There is a growing consensus that development cooperation activities should promote human rights, and that human rights can promote development. A growing number of donor agencies have adopted human rights policies that guide their cooperation activities.
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  Idealism, realism and the investment climate in developing countries

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008

  Developing countries that seek to attract increased levels of private investment for growth are commonly advised to reform their investment climates. But how is this to be done and is it always the right thing to do?
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  The Clean Development Mechanism: an assessment of current practice and future approaches for policy

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2007

  This paper provides an analysis of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) highlighting current practices and future directions that need to be at taken to strengthen policy.
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  Privatization and enterprise performance in Nigeria: case study of some privatized enterprises

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2008

  This study examinesthe post-privatisation performance of some formerly state-owned enterprises in Nigeria. Comparing data from five years before and five years after privatisation, the study finds significant increases in the following indicators:
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  No additionality, new conditionality: a critique of the World Bank’s proposed climate investment funds

  Third World Network, 2008

  The World Bank is planning to establish a portfolio of climate investment funds (CIFs) to provide financing for climate-related activities. The stated objective of the funds is to provide concessional finance for policy reforms and investments that achieve development goals through a transition to a low carbon development path and climate resilient economy.
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  The private sector in the Arab world – road map towards reform

  The Arab Reform Initiative, 2007

  This paper explores the role of the private sector and the conditions of the birth of a national bourgeoisie in the Arab world. Traditionally, the oil-exporting rentier states of the Middle East do not depend on taxation and the private sector is often only an extension of the state on which it depends for contracts, import licenses and the like.

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