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Energy security, economic development and averting global warming are conflicting objectives in a fossil fuel economy. In the long run, sustainable development requires a shift to renewable energy sources. In the short run the climate change problem requires swift action2 and different...
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This paper explores the linkages between human rights and the MDGs, international cooperation regarding climate change, and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The paper uses criteria of the right to development to analyze CDM. CDM provides a clear example of an international partnership...
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Financing the transition to low-carbon economic development must be the focus of any framework to encourage developing countries' participation in the global carbon market. It needs to do so with the aim of eventual full participation in carbon markets while maintaining the core market's...
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the Climate for Development -- The case for action -- A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now, act together … ahead to 2050: Which world? -- Focus B: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate -- 3 Managing Land and … Energizing Development without Compromising the Climate -- Balancing competing objectives -- Where the world needs to go …
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human-induced climatechange is occurring and that all countries of the world will beaffected and need to adapt to impacts …. Disasters and Development -- 4.1 Disasters and the Developing World -- 4.2 Why are "Natural" Disasters Increasing? -- 5 …
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World Bank Group's far-reaching portfolio of projects in energy, forestry, transport, coal power, and technology transfer …
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