This guidebook builds on a large range of UNDP's ongoing initiatives to support adaptation to climate change. This series is intended to empower decision makers to take action, and to prepare their territories to adapt, and hopefully thrive, under changing climatic conditions.
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance, has created a series of reports as part of its Green Investing project. This year's report, Green Investing 2011: Reducing the Cost of Financing, builds on two previous reports, Green Investing: Towards a Clean Energy Infrastructure and Green Investing 2010: Policy Mechanisms to Bridge the Financing Gap.
This study explores the link between tobacco use and poverty, as well as the broader relationship between income, tobacco use, and tobacco-related health consequences, using a meta-analysis of existing research literature. The study presents a solid base to support its conclusions of an inverse relationship between income level and tobacco use prevalence, and its related consequences.
Chemical fertilisers are key element of modern technology and have played an important role in agricultural productivity growth in India. However, the demand-supply gap of fertilisers in India has increased in recent times, thereby leading to increased dependency on imports.
This paper summarizes the results of a recent review of the emerging experience with the design and implementation of policy instruments to promote the development of renewable energy (RE) in a sample of
This paper is developed in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is aimed at proposing the improvement of clean development mechanism (CDM) in the power generation sector based on the experience through the implementation of capacity building while describing the recent information and identifying issues and challenges in India's power generation sector through IGES CDM
Consideration of projects for environmental clearance based on Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI)- Extension of Moratorium up to 30-09-2011.
This paper, which was developed in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is aimed at proposing the improvement of clean development mechanism (CDM) in the cement sector based on the experience through the implementation of capacity building while describing the recent information and identifying issues and challenges in India's cement sector through IGES CDM capacity-bui
