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Climate change and land tenure: the implications of climate change for land tenure and land policy
This document analyzes the implications for land tenure and land policy of climate change.
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Demand-side activities for efficient lighting technologies
This category comprises activities that lead to efficient use of electricity through the adoption of self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) to replace incandescent lamps in residential applications. The high-efficiency technology to replace existing equipment must be new equipment not transferred from another activity.
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Pesticides Amendment (Notification of Proposed Use) Regulation 2008
This Regulation is the Pesticides Amendment (Notification of Proposed Use) Regulation 2008.
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Save the climate by saving forests
The ecological, political, and financial stars are aligned for governments to take meaningful action on behalf of the climate, forests, and impoverished communities around the world.
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Separate streams?: adapting water resources management to climate change
This report, using empirical evidence from research in Niger and north-east Brazil, aims to identify how climate change adaptation can be integrated within the water sector to benefit the most poor and vulnerable people.
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Expert group to examine the schemes of statutory clearances for industrial and infrastructure projects in India: report
In pursuance of the commitment made by the Prime Minister in the 54th meeting of the National Development Council (NDC), an Expert Group was constituted in Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) to examine the schemes of statutory clearances for industrial and infrastructure projects and suggest specific steps for removal of bottlenecks and speeding up the approval process of these projects.
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Estimating the costs of reducing forest emissions: a review of methods
This paper reviews main approaches to estimate the costs of REDD, with a focus on the opportunity costs. These can be classified into local-empirical, global-empirical and global simulation models. In local-empirical models, per-area opportunity cost estimates are derived from detailed studies (surveys) and carbon density estimates
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Building a sustainable future
Over the past half-century, WWF and many other groups have worked to conserve the world's most exceptional ecosystems and endangered species, promote sustainable use of natural resources, and reduce pollution and wasteful consumption
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Feeling the pulse: a study of the total sanitation campaign in five states
This report is the outcome of a study undertaken to understand the principles of what has worked and what has not worked in Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) which is the national programme on reforms in rural sanitation launched by the Government of India in 1999.
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Sustaining the sanitation revolution: India country paper
As India becomes more populous
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The Uttar Pradesh water management and regulatory commission bill, 2008
This bill recommends establishment of the Uttar Pradesh Water Management and Regulatory Commission to regulate water resources within the State. The Commission shall work within framework of the State Water Policy to promote and monitor optimal utilization of water resources.
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Air quality and cement production: examining the implications of point source pollution in Sri Lanka
Suspended particulate matter (SPM), dust, fumes and gases from cement production can result in a range of health effects to households living around factories. This study estimates the health costs associated with air pollution from a cement factory in the district of Puttalam in Sri Lanka.
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Child and maternal nutrition in India
Malnutrition in India has been called
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Tropical deforestation emission reduction mechanism (TDERM): a discussion paper
This paper presents an overview of issues related to the design of policies that aim to reduce emissions from deforestation in developing countries from within the international climate change regime. It concludes by presenting a proposal for a funding mechanism to effectively incentivise and reward efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation, principally in tropical developing countries.
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The health cost of cement production: a study of air pollution in Sri Lanka
A new SANDEE study has found that air pollution from Sri Lanka
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Why is South Asia vulnerable to climate change?
Geography coupled with high levels of poverty and population density has rendered South Asia especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The impacts of climate change in the form of higher temperatures, more variable precipitation, and more extreme weather events are already felt in South Asia.
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International mountain biodiversity conference 2008: conference report
Mountains are among the most fragile environments on earth but, at the same time, are also rich repositories of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the sources of much of the water that sustains life on the planet.
