Implementing Climate and Global Change Research

Implementing Climate and Global Change Research
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309088658

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The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -the Climate Change Research Initiative-whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."

Annual Performance Report 2004

Annual Performance Report 2004
Author:
Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
Total Pages: 70
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 193399200X

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Climate Change and the World Bank Group

Climate Change and the World Bank Group
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821378554

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"Kenneth Chomitz was the evaluation manager and main author for this study"--P. xiii.

GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation

GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation
Author: Global Environment Facility. Evaluation Office
Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2008
Genre: Environmental protection
ISBN: 1933992085

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The Role of Local Benefits in Global Environmental Programs

The Role of Local Benefits in Global Environmental Programs
Author:
Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2006
Genre: Environmental protection
ISBN: 1933992018

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This study analyzes the interrelationship between local benefits and global environment benefits in the Global Environment Facility (GEF) strategies and projects in order to: Enhance GEF policies, strategies, and project design and implementation so these can effectively promote the potential for local gains in those global environmental programs where actors need to be mobilized for long-term support of sound environmental management, costs incurred by local communities for supplying global environmental goods need to be reduced, and possible negative impacts need to be ameliorated. Strengthen GEF monitoring and evaluation policies and processes to develop indicators for, and enhance the tracking of, local benefits and negative impacts. Expand the body of existing operational knowledge of good practices and experiences germane to pursuing global environmental issues and of constraints or fallacies to be avoided in operations. Disseminate widely the most valuable lessons of existing experience and show how these lessons can be implemented in future GEF operations.

Progressing Towards Environment Results

Progressing Towards Environment Results
Author: Office of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Global Environment Facility
Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1884122485

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Low-carbon Technology Transfer

Low-carbon Technology Transfer
Author: David G. Ockwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1136327657

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Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change. This book brings together for the first time in one place the work of some of the world's leading contemporary researchers in this field. It provides a practical, empirically grounded guide for policy makers and practitioners, while at the same time making new theoretical advances in combining insights from the literature on technology transfer and the literature on low carbon innovation. The book begins by summarizing the nature of low carbon technology transfer and its contemporary relevance in the context of climate change, before introducing a new theoretical framework through which effective policy mechanisms can be analyzed. The north-south, developed-developing country differences and synergies are then introduced together with the relevant international policy context. Uniquely, the book also introduces questions around the extent to which current approaches to technology transfer under the international policy regime might be considered to be 'pro-poor'. Throughout, the book draws on cutting edge empirical work to illustrate the insights it affords. The book concludes by setting out constructive ways forward towards delivering on existing international commitments in this area, including practical tools for decision makers.