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Final Report Low Carbon Development and Employment in China
This report examines the current status and future trend of low carbon development and green employment, estimates the number of the jobs created and lost by projection in newly emerging industries and established sectors, and provides policy ...
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Sectoral Approach and International Technology Development and Transfer
This working paper focuses on the Chinese electricity sector and illustrates the importance of sectoral approach for technology development and transfer to escape lock‐in effects and achieve emission reduction. This paper also comments on the ...
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Clean Development Mechanism Evaluation Study – Adoption of Heat Recovery Power Generation within the Chinese Coal-Gangue Brick Sector
China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of building materials. The Chinese clay brick sector consumes around one billion tonnes of clay per year. Recent policies aim to limit the manufacture of clay bricks and encourage the ...
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Comparability of Developed Country Mitigation Efforts
The thirteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Bali in December 2007, called for mitigation commitments or actions by all developed countries, while ensuring the ...
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Proposal on Innovative Mechanism for Development and Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies
The innovation and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) is critical to meet the challenges of climate change. However, there are great technology gaps between developed and developing countries. The timely promotion of the ...
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Promoting the Adoption of Heat Recovery Power Generation in the Chinese Coal-Gangue Brick-Making Sector: Support Package and Best Practice Guide
This guide provides an overview of heat recovery power generation (HRPG), examines costs and return on investment, and analyses associated risks, as well as presents a case study of a HRPG pilot project. This package has been compiled based on ...
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Research on International Mechanism of Carbon Budget Proposal
International mechanisms and actions in response to climate change are bound to produce long-term impacts on world economy and international politic. After 2012, the international climate system has five core elements, i.e., shared vision for ...
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Return and Development- Increasing the developmental impact of return migration in South Serbia UN Joint
For several years, Serbia has been faced with considerable flows of return migration. Even though empirical evidence from other countries indicates that returnees can have a positive impact on their home countries’ development, return ...
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Best Practices and lessons learned. Joint programme on Children, Nutrition and Food Security
Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places for a child to be born. Its mortality rate for children younger than 5 years is ranked second in the world. Twenty five percent of children die before reaching their fifth birthday and more than ...
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