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Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia: Adapting to Climate and Environmental Change

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders’ livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are thus among the most vulnerable groups to climate change impacts. However, although climate change impacts on grassland ecosystems are...

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Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings Towards Common Approaches and Better Results

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

Australian Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank confirmed their …

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Unveiling information on opportunity costs in REDD: Who obtains the surplus when policy objectives differ?

Delacote, Philippe; Palmer, Charles; Bakkegaard, Ryiong Kim - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2014

Improving information about individual opportunity costs of deforestation agents has the potential to increase the … difference to overall welfare as rents remain with agents. The amount of deforestation avoided will at least be as high as under …

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Unsustainable timber harvesting, deforestation and the role of certification

Damette, Olivier; Delacote, Philippe - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011

Deforestation is a major environmental issue, while demand for timber products increases rapidly in the developing … world. One can thus wonder whether forest harvesting is sustainable worldwide, or if demand for timber products is fulfilled … with the products from deforestation. Our panel data analysis shows that countries where timber harvesting is more …

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Same Energy, More power: Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Asia

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Energy efficiency is often defined as delivered energy service per unit of energy supplied into a system. Supply-side energy efficiency refers to decreasing energy losses in the supply chain, for improved performance in the production and delivery of electricity and heat. Demandside energy...

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Viet Nam: Environment and Climate Change Assessment

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is preparing sector assessments, thematic papers, strategies, and road maps to help align future ADB support with the needs and strategies of developing member countries and other development partners. A thematic paper is a working document that addresses a...

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How costly is mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture?: A meta-analysis

Vermont, Bruno; Cara, Stephane De - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2010

This text reviews the assessments of marginal abatement costs of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture. We use agricultural emissions and the corresponding prices collected from 21 studies that have assessed abatement potentials and costs using various modeling approaches and...

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Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions from European agriculture, cost effectiveness, and the EU non-ETS burden sharing agreement

Cara, Stephane De; Jayet, Pierre-Alain - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011

We propose a quantitative assessment of the marginal abatement costs (MAC) of greenhouse gas emissions from European agriculture and analyze the implications of the non-ETS burden-sharing agreement (BSA) for this sector. This assessment is based on MAC reduced forms, the generic specification of...

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