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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation--Debt Sustainability Analysis
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
International Monetary Fund, International Development Association
2014
This Debt Sustainability Analysis continues to classify the risk of debt distress as moderate, but Lao P.D.R. is on the verge of a transition to high risk, with heightened vulne...
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Climate Change and Its Impact on the Lao and Cambodian People
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
Phoonsab Thevongsa, republished by IUCN
2012
As climate change intensifies, so do the threats to the environment and ecosystems because they are affected by variations in the weather such as temperature, rainfall and river...
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Sustainable Development Goals Delivery: Planning for Implementation
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
The Asia-Europe Foundation, ASEM SMEs Eco-Innovation Center...
2017
The ENVforum held a two-day workshop on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) entitled, “Sustainable Development Goals Delivery: Planning for Implementation” for policymakers fro...
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Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network
2015
This report is offered as a contribution to the multi-stakeholder debate in support of the SDGs. It outlines how a comprehensive indicator framework might be established to supp...
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators proposed for Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
UNDP, Ministry of Planning and Invesment
2017
Localised Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators proposed for Lao PDR. 21 August 2016 and revised in the baseline data process, 30 March 2017. Linkages made to the Fiv...
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A new urban landscape in East-Southeast Asia, 2000-2010
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
A Schneider, C M Mertes, A J Tatem, B Tan, D Sulla-Menashe, S J...
2015
East–Southeast Asia is currently one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world, with countries such as China climbing from 20 to 50% urbanized in just a few decades. By 205...
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Making it happen: Technology, finance and statistics for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Asian Development Bank, United Nations Economic and Social...
2015
This 2014/15 report, Making It Happen, assesses the state of progress on the MDGs, but then considers how we can move towards the SDGs. The report is based on a series of Asia-P...
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Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is subsidizing hydro developers and harming the Kyoto Protocol
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Barbara Haya
2007
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
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
2007
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
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Asia Development Bank and RECOFTC
2010
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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‘Resilience’ across the post-2015 frameworks: towards coherence?
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Katie Peters, Lara Langston, Thomas Tanner and Aditya Bahadur.
2016
This paper takes as its starting point the international frameworks negotiated and agreed by the world’s governments in 2015 and 2016. These include (in chronological order) the...
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Addressing adaptation in a 2015 climate agreement
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
Jennifer Huang and Irene Suarez
2015
With the adverse effects of climate change becoming more frequent and intense, all countries face increasing climate risks and adaptation needs. The negotiations toward a new cl...
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Ecosystem-based approaches to address climate change challenges in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Issue and policy briefs
Asian Development Bank
2015
The brief summarizes the current state of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) knowledge and experience on ecosystem-based approaches. It draws upon work of the GMS Core Environment P...
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Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
Mekong River Commission
Policy brief for a basin-wide initiative to strengthen adaptive capacity and resilience.
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The Paris Agreement
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Issue and policy briefs
UNFCCC
2015
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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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992)
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
1992
The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provision...
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Grassroots capacity building for REDD+ in Asia
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
RECOFTC
2014
This document reviews the successes and challenges of the REDD+ program's capacity building efforts across multiple countries, as well as looks ahead to potential next phases fo...
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IWRM-based basin development strategy for the Lower Mekong Basin
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Viet Nam
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Mekong River Commission For Sustainable Development
2010
The IWRM-based Basin Development Strategy (the Strategy) is a statement of the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam) setting out how the...
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Transboundary fisheries management issues in the Mekong and Sekong Rivers
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mekong River Commission
2017
This publication was jointly produced by the National Mekong Committees of Cambodia and Lao PDR, with technical support from the MRC Secretariat. It is an output of the Mekong a...
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Commodity Markets Outlook, April 2017
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The World Bank
2017
Prices for most industrial commodities strengthened further in the first quarter (q/q), while global agricultural prices remained broadly stable. Crude oil prices are forecast t...