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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Opportunities in Agricultural Landscapes : A Practitioner's Guide to Agricultural and Land Resources Management

Braimoh, Ademola K. - 2016

Agriculture, and the patterns of land-use change that are associated with it, have a significant ecological footprint … globally. Yet agriculture is also the only economic sector in which opportunities are present to mitigate climate change … increasing productivity and employing agriculture as an instrument for economic development. The report highlights the pattern of …

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Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Sustainable Land Management : Quick Guidance for Users

Toudert, Anass - 2018

Agriculture, and the patterns of land use change that are associated with it, have a high environmental footprint and … measure, which is why quantifying greenhouse gas emissions is a necessary step for climate-smart agriculture and sustainable …

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Carbon Accounting Tools for Sustainable Land Management

Toudert, Anass - 2018

Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is unique among economic sectors because its mitigation … agriculture, forestry, and bioenergy. Mitigation options in the AFOLU sector, therefore, need to be assessed, as far as possible …

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Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement

Strand, Jon - 2019

This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...

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Transformational climate finance : donors' willingness to support deep and transformational greenhouse gas emissions reductions in lower-income countries

Strand, Jon - 2020

This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...

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Environment and development : penalized non-parametric inference of global trends in deforestation, pollution and carbon

Andrée, Bo Pieter Johannes; Spencer, Phoebe; Chamorro, … - 2019

This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine learning framework. The results suggest that production gradually favors conserving the...

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Financing low-carbon transitions through carbon pricing and green bonds

Heine, Dirk; Semmler, Willi; Mazzucato, Mariana; Braga, … - 2019

To finance the transition to low-carbon economies required to mitigate climate change, countries are increasingly using a combination of carbon pricing and green bonds. This paper studies the reasoning behind such policy mixes and the economic interaction effects that result from these different...

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Report on the Simulation of Low Carbon Green Growth Policies, including the Results of Impact Assessment and Final Policy Recommendations

World Bank - 2015

This assessment presents a synthesis of analysis to contribute to the definition of a lower carbon and greener growth path for Romania to 2050. The objective of Romania's green growth path is to implement mitigation actions and undertake needed adaptation while preserving growth and employment....

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Low Carbon Cities : Exploring New Crediting Approaches to Deliver Carbon and Climate Finance

World Bank Group - 2018

By 2050, two-thirds of the planet's population will live in urban centers, and nearly 90 percentof the 2.5 billion new urban dwellers will live in Africa and Asia. The world's urban areas wereresponsible for around 70 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2013, and that numbercould grow...

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Greening Construction : The Role of Carbon Pricing

Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition - 2019

This report examines how to design effective carbon pricing mechanisms (CPMs) for the construction industry. As the world's largest consumer of raw materials, it accounts for a significant proportion of final energy demand and is responsible for 25 percent to 40 percent of global carbon-related...

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