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Climate change and poverty reduction : where does official development assistance money go?
Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Singh, Kanhaiya; Shandre Mugan … - 2011
There is an urgent need to mainstream the key challenges of climate change into sector and development planning and decision making processes to create sustainable long-term development. Mainstreaming is seen as making more efficient and effective use of financial and human resources. It is...
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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013
In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200830
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Development assistance and climate finance
Arndt, Channing - 2015
The distinction between development assistance and climate finance is driven by an optic of compensation largely derived from the 'polluter pays' principle. For practical as well as conceptual reasons, this principle provides a weak basis for climate finance. The distinction also cuts against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488217
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A Modular Governance Architecture In-the-Making : How Transnational Standard-Setters Govern Sustainability Transitions
Manning, Stephan - 2017
Sustainability transitions have been studied as complex multi-level processes, but we still know relatively little about how they can be effectively governed, especially in transnational domains. Governance of transitions is often constrained by the equivocality of sustainability goals, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970580
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National Contexts Matter : The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains
Manning, Stephan - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the role of key industry and other stakeholders and their embeddedness in particular national contexts in driving the proliferation and co-evolution of sustainability standards, based on the case of the global coffee industry. We find that institutional conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093900
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Palm Oil Under Discussion : The Pros and Cons of an Agricultural Raw Material in Sustainable Food Production
Reinecke, Juliane - 2015
countries for certain products. 2. Consumption of and demand for palm oil are increasing with the rise in the world's population …
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Financing the Peace : Evaluating World Bank Post-Conflict Assistance Programs
Nooruddin, Irfan - 2008
Has the World Bank's dramatic expansion of aid to countries devastated by civil conflict met its stated goals of … politics of civil conflict with an understanding of the politics of the World Bank. The primary political economic challenge in … of Bank programs on recovery and recurrence on an original data set of all World Bank programs in post …
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The Emergence of a Standards Market : Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry
Reinecke, Juliane - 2012
The growing number of voluntary standards for governing transnational arenas is presenting standards organizations with a problem. While claiming that they are pursuing shared, overarching objectives, at the same time, they are promoting their own respective standards that are increasingly...
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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector
Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013
Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations - constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena are opening new...
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The Nordhaus racket : how to use capitalization to minimize the cost of climate change and win a nobel for "sustainable growth"
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018
The LA Times called the bluff: William D. Nordhaus won the Nobel prize in economics for a climate model that minimized the cost of rising global temperatures and undermined the need for urgent action. Unfortunately, though, the article missed the nugget in the racket.
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