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Implementing EU renewable energy policy at the subnational level: Navigating between conflicting interestsThe European Union (EU) has set targets for gradually reducing greenhouse gas emissions through 2050. One of the instruments involved is the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive, which specifies a 20 per cent renewable energy target for the EU by 2020...
Forests and forestry Renewable energy sources State governmentsVideo
Sustainable ForestsConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 6.3
Forests and forestry Climate changeVideo
Role of Foreign AidConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 4.1
Climate change Economic growth Foreign aidBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (October 2013)
31 October 2013 Tony Addison October finds Angle in New York, for our event on ‘Fragility and Aid–What Works?’ at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN...
Agriculture Budget Economic aspects (Education)Research Brief
Maximizing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in the Forestry SectorForest degradation remains a leading environmental problem, given the scale of forest loss and the crucial role of forests to both climate change mitigation and adaptation...
Climatic changes Economic assistance and foreign aid Forests and forestryWorking Paper
Foreign Aid and Sustainable ForestryForeign aid can contribute to sustainable forestry in many ways. The goal is to secure forest benefits of the future, without compromising the needs of the present generations. This paper elaborates on forestry aid as it has evolved in the past...
Agriculture Conservation of natural resources Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Leveraging Global Climate Finance for Sustainable Forests: Opportunities and Conditions for Successful Foreign Aid to the Forestry SectorForest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations—constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests...
Climatic changes Economic assistance and foreign aid Forests and forestryWorking Paper
Reputation, Policy Risk, and Land Use: A Study of China’s ‘Grain for Green’ ProgrammeSince 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the ‘Grain for Green’ programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world...
Conservation of natural resources Farm produce Forests and forestryWorking Paper
Forest Management, Gender, and Food Security of the Rural Poor in AfricaThis paper addresses the economic impact of forest management on gender and food security of rural poor in Africa...
Food security Forests and forestry PoorBook Chapter
Turning to Forestry for a Way Out of Poverty: Is Formalizing Property Rights Enough?From the book: Linking the Formal and Informal Economy
Forests and forestry Laws and legislation (Land use) PovertyBook Chapter
The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South AsiaFrom the book: Group Behaviour and Development
Cost effectiveness Equality and inequality Forests and forestryBook Chapter
A Nordic Perspective on Natural Resource AbundanceFrom the book: Resource Abundance and Economic Development
Economic growth Forests and forestry Natural resourcesBook Chapter
Devolution of Control of Common Pool Resources to Local Communities: Experiences in ForestryFrom the book: Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
Forests and forestry Rural developmentWorking Paper
Group Functioning and Community Forestry in South Asia: A Gender Analysis and Conceptual FrameworkThis paper examines group functioning in the management of common pool resources, such as forests. In recent years community forestry groups have mushroomed in South Asia. But how participative, equitable and efficient are they?...
Cost effectiveness Equality and inequality Forests and forestryWorking Paper
Forest Transitions and Carbon Fluxes: Global Scenarios and PoliciesForests as stocks, sinks and sources of carbon have become a vital issue in global politics, along with the Kyoto Protocol of the Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Environmental policy Forests and forestry Global warmingWorking Paper
Natural Resources and Economic Growth: A Nordic Perspective on the Dutch DiseaseThe paper begins by offering a quick glance of the Nordic economies and of some aspects of their economic growth performance and natural resource dependence since 1970...
Economic growth Forests and forestry Natural resources