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- Publication 16 August 2021 High Impact Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in China
- Publication 16 August 2021 Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Ecosystems - Benefits, Barriers and Decision‐Making Ecosystems are central to the livelihoods of many people and at the same time highly vulnerable to climate change. This research, which focuses on ecosystems and land use, investigates how households dependent on ecosystems can benefit from climate change adaptation and mitigation. Adaptation and mitigation are two different approaches to minimising the impact and extent of climate change. The possible synergy between adaptation and mitigation is a topic that is currentlyattracting increasing…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Institutional capacities for NDC implementation: a guidance document Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are commitments by parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Each party defines its own NDC, which in all cases includes mitigation-related goals and, in most cases, adaptation-related goals too. For most parties, the time horizon for implementing NDC goals is 2030.By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement of the UNFCCC, parties commit to submitting revised NDCs every five years. The revised NDCs must have an…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Good Practice and Success Stories on Energy Efficiency in China
- Publication 16 August 2021 Good Practice and Success Stories on Energy Efficiency in India
- Publication 16 August 2021 Enhancing Energy Efficiency in China: Assessment of Sectoral Potentials
- Publication 16 August 2021 Governing Transformation towards Low-carbon Societies: An ideational perspective from developing countries Securing a low-carbon future will require a multitude of ‘low-carbon transformations’. The issues are how such transformations are imagined and framed, along which pathways and who steers them, including the very basic question of what decisions are made to transform the present challenges to climate change governance. Understanding of the politics of these governance challenges is important in explaining which pathways are supported or delegitimised and which are ignored and fail to get off…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Catalysing low cost green technologies for sustainable water service delivery in Kenya: Feasibility Study Report Since 1974, the government of Kenya has recognised water supplies as critical for poverty reduction and development. Kenya’s economic and social development Vision 2030 emphasises the need for adequate and sustainable provision of water supply and sanitation services, with a target to achieve universal access by 2030. However, thus far most water development targets have not been achieved. Improvement has been much slower in rural and low income urban areas, and the current funding level is…