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Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us?

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

Adaptation Climate change Climate change mitigation
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness: Introduction and Overview

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

Donors Fragile states Climate change
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 Global mitigation policies and developing country economies: The case of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia Climate change Climate uncertainty Global mitigation
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SA-TIED research on South Africa's energy future in the news Climate change climate mitigation climate adaptation
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Foreign aid and climate change policy: What can(’t) the data tell us?

Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries...

Adaptation Climate change Climate change mitigation
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Mining Extractive industries Climate change
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Climate change and the extractives sector

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Extractive industries Climate change Environment and climate
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Extractives for development: Introduction and ten main messages

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Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...

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Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households

This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Vietnam...

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Climate change and the extractives sector

The extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals – as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy, t...

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Conclusion

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

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Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa

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Financing Sustainable Agriculture under Climate Change with a Specific Focus on Foreign Aid

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Opportunities and Conditions for Successful Foreign Aid to the Forestry Sector

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