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Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon
Date: April 7, 2008
Creator: Harcastle, P. D.
Description: According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).
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Clearing the Waters: A focus on water quality solutions
Date: March 2010
Creator: Palanaippan, Meena
Description: This report discusses global water issues and offers a variety of proposals for countering the degradation of freshwater ecosystems for the benefit of public health and the environment.
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Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development
Date: 2010
Creator: Nelleman, Christian
Description: This report discusses some vital services that natural ecosystems contribute to human health and development.
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Freshwater Under Threat: South Asia
Date: unknown
Creator: Babel, Mukland S.
Description: This report focuses on three major South Asian river basins: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basin, the Helmand River Basin, and the Indus River Basin. The authors use a composite Water Vulnerability Index based on development pressures, ecology, and other factors, to demonstrate the vulnerability of the river basins.
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GEO Year Book 2007: An Overview of Our Changing Environment
Date: 2007
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Description: This publication is an overview of major global environmental issues and policy decisions during the course of 2007.
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Global Carbon Finance: A quantitative modelling framework to explore scenarios of the Global Deal on Climate Change
Date: April 2009
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change
Description: According to the abstract, the purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative research methodology for analyzing the costs of dealing with climate change.
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Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Finacning
Date: 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Description: This report shows that in spite of the global economic downturn, investment in sustainable energy is still strong.
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Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
Date: October 2010
Creator: India. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Description: The objective of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) under the brand 'Solar India' is to establish India as a global leader in solar energy, by creating the policy conditions for its diffusion across the country as quickly as possible. The scope of these guidelines is to select new projects and provide the necessary policy framework for development of projects under the "bundling scheme" for Phase I of the JNNSM.
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Our Planet : Climate Change - Copenhagen: seal the deal
Date: December 2009
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Description: Our Planet is a periodical magazine published by the United Nations Environment Programme. This issue is devoted to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, know as the Copenhagen Summit, which sought an international agreement on climate change mitigation.
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Our Planet : Green Economy - The New Big Deal
Date: February 2009
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Description: Our Planet is a periodical magazine published by the United Nations Environment Programme. This issue is devoted to so called "Green Economy" measures such as large public transportation plans, tree planting programs, and government policies that provide incentives for improving energy efficiency.
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