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Turning carbon into gold: how the international community can finance climate change adaptation without breaking the bank
Recognizing that poor communities in developing countries are the least responsible for climate change but most vulnerable to its impacts, the Bali Action Plan calls for
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Share: managing water across boundaries
Transboundary rivers are increasingly being drawn upon to meet the needs of growing populations and economies. This increased pressure on the available water resources sharpens competing demands between countries, rural and urban areas, different user groups, and the river ecosystems themselves. The challenge is to balance these competing demands in a way that is equitable and
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The TWO analysis: introducing a methodology for the transboundary waters opportunity analysis
This report presents a conceptual framework that can be used by stakeholders concerned by the development and management of shared freshwater resources. The objective is to promote the sustainable and equitable use of transboundary water resources,
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The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes
Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries
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Environmental research and education needs: an agenda for a new administration
This report presents the collective recommendations of more than 5000 scientists, engineers, students, and decisionmakers who have participated from 2000-2008 in the annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment convened by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE).
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Management effectiveness evaluation (MEE) of PA network in India: site report
This report provides a comprehensive management effectiveness evaluation of the Protected Areas Network in India. It also includes the assessment criteria for management effectiveness evaluation (MEE) of PA network in India - site level.
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Climate change mitigation: what do we do?
In this document, the OECD expands its analysis in two important domains: first, it focuses on the role of technological innovation in bringing down the costs of climate change mitigation over time. It argues that a concerted research and development effort can indeed be expected to yield important benefits, but not by itself.
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The worlds worst pollution problems: the top ten of the toxic twenty
This report sets out a range of pollution problems and for each gives a brief summary of the problem
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The impacts of biofuel production on food prices: a review
This discussion paper reviews existing evidence, projections and opinions about the impacts of biofuel production on commodity and food prices. Also summarizes different discourses on the various
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Mind-forgd manacles: the constraints to optimising urban transport policy
This paper begins with an exposition and interpretation of the welfare optimum, defined in neoclassical economic theory as a heuristic device and a guide to policy, rather than as a description of the real world. In this view, a dynamic real-world economy is necessarily at variance with Walrasian equilibrium
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Desalination: resource and guidance manual for environmental impact assessments
The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial-scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s.
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Conflict mediation in the water and sanitation sector: and how to reach solutions
This thematic overview paper (TOP) explores current thinking about conflict management in the water and sanitation sector. Reviews different options for conflict management, putting special emphasis on mediation to encourage dialogue and shared action to resolve many water supply and sanitation conflicts.
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Reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries
Deforestation and forest ecosystem degradation are significant causes of the global warming recorded in the past century.
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Social and environmental standards for large dams
Comparing the strategic priorities and policy principles of the World Commission on Dams, the sustainability guidelines and sustainability assessment protocol of the International Hydropower Association, and the performance standards of the World Bank
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Biodiversity in the himalayas: trends, perception and impacts of climate change
In this latest paper, ICIMOD provides a concerted review of climate change assessment with specific focus on biodiversity impact areas on the mountain ecosystems of the Eastern Himalayas.
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Enabling agriculture to contribute to climate change mitigation
This submission highlights ways in which the potential of agricultural mitigation in general, and from smallholder agriculture in particular, may be realized under a future global climate change agreement.
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Triggering agricultural development through horticultural crops
The horticulture sector encompasses a wide range of crops e.g., fruit crops, vegetable crops, potato and tuber crops, ornamental crops, medicinal and aromatic crops, spices and plantation crops. India, with its wide variability of climate and soil, is highly favourable for growing a large number of horticultural crops. It is the fastest growing sector within agriculture.
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Partnerships for a cleaner city: lessons on managing the urban environment
This is the story of how seven poor communities used grant assis
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Corporate governance and climate change: Consumer and technology companies
Volatile energy prices and growing environmental concerns have catapulted climate change to the top of corporate agendas of many industries. Until now, attention has focused on emissions-intensive industries, such as power generation and oil production. Yet climate change is a critical issue for all sectors of the economy.