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World Bank - 2012

Smoking harms the health of smokers and those around them. Smokers are at far higher risks of strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases; cancers of the lungs, mouth, larynx, bladder, pancreas, kidneys and stomach; emphysema, bronchitis, and tuberculosis. These diseases cause...

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Lao PDR - Labor Standards and Productivity in the Garments Export Sector : A Survey of Managers and Workers

World Bank - 2012

management practices, working conditions and worker motivation, as well as industry technology and workflow practices, are drawn … management practices, working conditions and worker motivation, as well as industry technology and workflow practices. In order …

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Towards a joint implementation of the 2030 Agenda/SDGs and the Paris Agreement : conceptual and analytic paper : interim report

Teebken, Julia; Jacob, Klaus; Petrova, Maria; Wolff, … - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2022

To date, processes to implement the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international climate change mitigation and adaptation obligations are largely disconnected in most countries. This creates administrative overlaps, costs and hampers the development of effective problem...

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International Workshop on Public-Private Dialogue : Proceedings Including the Charter of Good Practice in Using Public-Private Dialogue for Private Sector Development

World Bank - 2012

There has been growing interest from stakeholders around the world in recent years in how to build momentum for private … field for guidance based on international best practice. In 2004-2005, responding to this demand, the World Bank, Department …

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Further development of the EU ETS for aviation against the background of the introduction of a global market-based measure by ICAO : final report

Graichen, Verena; Cames, Martin; Gores, Sabine; … - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2020

Air transport is a sector with particularly dynamic emissions growth. The European Union has led the way in climate protection and included aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in 2012. To support the international process for a global market-based measure to limit...

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Options under international law to increase resource efficiency : final report

Bodle, Ralph; Sina, Stephan; Donat, Lena; Bach, Inga - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2021

Based on a stocktake of existing governance, we present options to improve international governance of resource efficiency (RE) in the short, medium and long term. The study provides a legal and political science perspective to anchoring RE more strongly at the international level. We assess how...

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Methodological challenges for eco-labels in the Global Ecolabelling Network : evaluation and traceability of critical raw materials and determination of quantitative environmental...

Prakash, Siddhartha; Hilbert, Inga; Manhart, Andreas; … - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2020

The main objective of this project was to strengthen the use and cooperation of type-I ecolabels worldwide. As markets are becoming increasingly international and products are no longer developed for national markets, the cooperation and joint efforts of ecolabels in developing common...

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How can the new climate agreement support robust national mitigation targets? : opportunities up to Paris and beyond

Fekete, Hanna; Hagemann, Markus; Obergassel, Wolfgang; … - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2015 - Study completed in: November 2015

The international community is negotiating a new global climate agreement to be applicable from 2020 onwards. Parties aim at signing the agreement in December 2015, at the Conference of Parties (COP) in Paris. Until then, countries are already preparing proposals for their individual...

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Global Good Practice in Incubation Policy Development and Implementation

World Bank - 2013

This paper was based on a desk review of the literature relating to best practice in public policy supporting business incubation, supplemented by four national case studies covering Brazil, Ma-laysia, New Zealand and South Africa. These country studies were prepared through engage-ment of...

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Compendium of International and National Legal Frameworks on Child Marriage

World Bank - 2023

Education Global Practice at the World Bank on the role of law to end child marriage. The discussions took place within the … context of a global study being conducted by the World Bank and the International Center for Research on Women on the economic … World Bank decided to update and upgrade the first edition of the Compendium. The EWBL aims to advance gender equality …

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