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Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) marks a shift in the priority of the UNDP from tackling poverty to tackling climate change. This shift erodes the ability of the UNDP to perform its primary function of providing development assistance to poor countries. The climate...
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(LMOs), hope was raised that these would contribute greatly to an increase in world agricultural production and thereby help …
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issues, climate change and the AIDS crisis in the developing world. Using an experimental design, this paper reports the …
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This evaluation is the first of a series that seeks lessons from the World Bank Group's experience on how to carve out … a sustainable growth path. The World Bank Group has never had an explicit corporate strategy on climate change against …, the links to pricing policy and to carbon finance, and the existence of the World Bank-led initiative to reduce flaring. …
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Development planners and project managers have used a wide variety of tools to manage a broad range of environmental risks, including those posed by climate variability, for a long time. Some of these tools have also now been modified to take into account the risks posed by climate change. At...
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Introduction -- Core evaluation criteria -- Keeping human development going -- Technological mitigation -- Ecological mitigation -- Adaptation by preserving resilience and diversity -- Evaluating partnerships -- Evaluating transformations -- Conclusions
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