Blockchain for scaling climate action
The environment and climate sectors require digital transformation to keep up with the changing planetary ecosystem and to coordinate urgent and global action in areas including biodiversity loss, disaster
Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV)
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Transport sector and NAMAs: assessing data readiness for MRV
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) hosted a workshop on measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas (GHG)
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NAMAs, CDM and MRV: the case of transport sector
This paper reinforces the need for a robust yet simplified MRV framework to make NAMAs work on a large scale providing opportunities to countries and sectors less benefited by the CDM. The discussion focused
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Looking beyond Durban: Where To from here?
The lesson for India after Durban is that it needs to formulate an approach that combines attention to industrialised countries’ historical responsibility for the problem with an embrace of its own responsibility
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Did Durban deliver?: the 2011 climate conference and its implications for land transport
A summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, and their significance for the land transport sector.
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On the road again: progressive countries score a realpolitik victory in Durban while the real climate continues to heat up
This report by Wolfgang Sterk, Christof Arens, Florian Mersmann, Hanna Wang-Helmreich and Timon Wehnert analyses the international climate negotiations at the UN climate conference in Durban in December
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Biofuels from CDM to NAMAs
This paper reviews the trend of biofuel development and performance of biofuel projects under CDM as well as provides insights on how biofuel projects could transition to NAMAs. The author emphasizes
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Designing climate finance to enhance low-carbon investment through local intermediaries
Investment in low carbon technologies has been growing over the past few years. However, in order to replace conventional high energy/high carbon intensity technologies with low carbon ones and reduce
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Climate change mitigation finance for smallholder agriculture: a guide book to harvesting soil carbon sequestration benefits
This FAO publication focuses on climate change mitigation financing for smallholders. The Organization, however, fully recognizes that adaptation may be the imperative and priority over the short and medium
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The road to Durban: hopes and challenges
This document briefly revisits the progress made from Cancun to the last intersessional held in Panama in October 2011, and then tackles the emerging political issues that the authors believe will shape
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India Submits Plan to UNFCCC
As the possibility of continuing with emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol for developed countries grows dim, India has stepped up its efforts to ensure a rigorous and robust system of international