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Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals
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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A new urban landscape in East-Southeast Asia, 2000-2010
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
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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Low-Carbon Transport Policy in Four ASEAN Countries: Developments in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam
Emerging countries in Southeast Asia are facing considerable challenges in addressing rising motorisation and its negative impact on air quality, traffic, energy security, livea...
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Selection of nationally appropriated mitigation action (NAMA) for Thailand’s land transport sector
A presentation about NAMA and sustainable transport in Thailand. The presenter discusses criteria for NAMA facilities and the selection process. They also discuss Thailand’s pub...
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Compilation of Information and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions to be Implemented by Developing Country Parties
This document presents a compilation of the information on all nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) communicated by developing country Parties to date. The compila...
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Introduction to REDD+ governance in Cambodia: Briefing Paper of the Overcoming the Legal Barriers to REDD+ Implementation Project
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developin...
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Rice husk based Power project in Nakhonratchasima, Thailand
The Rice husk based Power project in Nakhonratchasima, Thailand (hereafter referred to as the “Project”) developed by TRC Clean Energy Co., Ltd. (hereafter referred to as the “P...
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Methane Recovery and Biogas Utilization Project, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam
This is a Project Design Document (PDD) under the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism Simplified Small Scale Projects - for development of a Methane Recovery and Biogas Utilizati...
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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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Total greenhouse gas emissions (% change from 1990)
The EDGARv4.3.2 emissions dataset are calculated for the three main greenhouse gases per sector and country. For the energy related sectors the activity data are mainly based on...
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‘Resilience’ across the post-2015 frameworks: towards coherence?
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
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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Global Environmental Fund Climate Change funded projects
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a partnership of 18 agencies - including United Nations agencies, multilateral development banks, national entities, and international N...
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Ecosystem-based approaches to address climate change challenges in the Greater Mekong Subregion
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
Policy brief for a basin-wide initiative to strengthen adaptive capacity and resilience.
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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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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...