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Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is subsidizing hydro developers and harming the Kyoto Protocol
FIVE YEARS AGO International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used ...
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The Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms: International Emissions Trading Clean Development Mechanism Join Implementation
The central feature of the Kyoto Protocol is its requirement that countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. By setting such targets, emission reductions took on ...
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National REDD+ Strategies in Asia and the Pacific: Progress and Challenges
Reduced carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and associated actions to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks, collectively referred to as REDD+...
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The Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and – for the first time – brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adap...
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ASEAN action plan on joint response to climate change
The ASEAN Leaders’ Statement on Joint Response to Climate Change (adopted 9 April 2010) recognized that the Southeast Asian region is vulnerable to climate change. In reference...
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Climate change in Southeast Asia: Focused actions on the frontlines of climate change
This publication identifies the significant issues and challenges relating to climate change being faced by Southeast Asian countries, and highlights emerging responses and best...
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Degradation in carbon stocks near tropical forest edges
Carbon stock estimates based on land cover type are critical for informing climate change assessment and landscape management, but field and theoretical evidence indicates that...
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Grassroots capacity building for REDD+ in Asia: Project brochure
A brief about a project building capacity for REDD+. Since 2009, RECOFTC has been implementing the regional project on Grassroots Capacity Building for REDD+, through the...
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Summary of the workshop, "A systematic and quantitative design of the low carbon development plan for Cambodia"
This document summarises proceedings of a workshop on low carbon development (LCD) in Cambodia. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce a preliminary study on a low carbon...
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Energy outlook for Asia and the Pacific: October 2013
This report attempts to identify policy, social, infrastructure, and technology issues that must be addressed to meet the future energy needs of members of ADB in Asia and the...