Subsidies to coal production in China
This report presents a bottom-up inventory of subsidies to the Chinese coal industry. It starts with a snapshot of the different methodologies available for subsidy evaluation and then describes the identified
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Assessing green industrial policy: the India experience
This report focuses on the wind and solar sectors in India. It reviews Indian policies for raising the share of renewables in the energy mix within the context of multiple social, economic and technological
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Nepal's action plan on CO2 emission reduction 2013
Nepal's action plan to reduce green house gas emissions from aviation (the action plan) describes ongoing and planned activities to reduce green house gas emissions from Nepal's domestic and international
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Taking stock: how the cosmetics industry ranks on toxic chemicals
Environmental Defence ranks the largest cosmetics companies in Canada from best to worst on their chemical policies and use of toxic ingredients in their products. A new report finds the largest cosmetics
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Catalyzing water for sustainable development and growth
The report is not formally mandated; rather it is an independent evidence-based analysis of how water can be addressed in a development agenda beyond 2015. The purpose is fourfold: to help inform global
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Water security and the global water agenda
This analytical brief published by United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment & Health offers a working definition of water security developed from contributions made by the broad range of organizations, agencies, programmes and institutions that form UN-Water.
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The Impacts of India’s diesel price reforms on the trucking industry
In 2011-2012, the Government of India spent over USD$15 billion subsidizing fuel products such as diesel, kerosene and liquid petroleum gas. The government’s total subsidy expenditure increased by 27 per
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Understanding needs, meeting demands: a user-oriented analysis of online knowledge brokering platforms for climate change and development
This paper examines the current state of alignment between climate knowledge brokers (CKB) platforms with the information-seeking and knowledge-sharing behaviour of users of online climate change information.
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Biofuels—at what cost? a review of costs and benefits of EU biofuel policies
This report evaluates the principal costs and benefits of the European Union’s biofuels industry, based on an assessment of best available information. Depending on the availability of data, some costs
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Water security and the global water agenda
This analytical brief serves as a starting point for dialogue on water security in the United Nations system. The working definition of water security offered here was developed from contributions made
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The future of sustainable development: rethinking sustainable development after Rio+20 and implications for UNEP
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in June 2012—commonly referred to as Rio+20—left many perplexed. If a number of advances were made, the results fell well short of what