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- Publication 16 August 2021 Brazil’s Soft-Power Strategy: The Political Aspirations of South–South Development Cooperation By trading upon the principles of South-South cooperation, Brazil is widely viewed as having gained a positive image worldwide. Brazil’s South-South development cooperation was one of the foreign policy instruments it used to raise this profile. However, studies of the generation of soft power are still lacking in the international relations literature,and where empirical research exists it focuses more on the results of soft power strategies than on how soft power is created. Therefore,this…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Carbono Cero América Latina - Una vía para la descarbonización neta de la economía regional para mediados de este siglo El objetivo del análisis presentado en este informe esidentificar una vía para la descarbonización completa de la economía regional de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) para mediados de este siglo. Esto se logra a través de una revisión de acciones sectoriales específicas dentro de un contexto tecnológico y económico previsible. El análisis se lleva a cabo en un momento de considerable discusión del problema del cambio climático a nivel mundial y después de una década de notable progreso…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Roots and Tuber Crops Value Chains for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security in Ghana: Potentials and Challenges
- Publication 16 August 2021 A step-by-step guide for countries conducting a Technology Needs Assessment The purpose of this document is to summarise the various steps in the implementation of a TNA, serving as the ‘go-to’ document for national coordinators and consultants. It also points to the various materials that are available to further guide and support project management and methodology. For this new TNA Phase II (2015-2017), we reflect upon experience from the 36 countries in the TNA Phase I (2010-2013) and offer country case-study examples to help illustrate how the project can be…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Designing an Africa-EU research and innovation collaboration platform on climate change Climate change is arguably the most significant of a set of interconnected global challenges threatening water resources and food security. In particular, the relationship between water resources, food systems and climate change is tightly coupled, and improved food security under climate change and climate variability scenarios requires globally coordinated actions for both technical and policy interventions to achieve greater resilience. Successful implementation of these actions requires a…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Overcoming Barriers to the Transfer and Diffusion of Climate Technologies This guidebook provides practical and operational guidance on how to assess and overcome barriersfacing the transfer and diffusion of technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation.The guidebook is designed to support the analysis of specific technologies, rather than pursuing asectoral (e.g. transport) or technology group (e.g. renewable energy) approach.Given that there is no single solution to enhancing technology transfer and diffusion policies needbe tailored to country-specific…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Pathways to deep decarbonization in India This report is a part of the global Deep Decarbonisation Pathways (DDP) Project. The analysis consider two development scenarios for India and assess alternate roadmaps for transiting to a low carbon economy consistent with the globally agreed 2°C stabilization target. The report does not consider existence of a reference scenario of a world with unmitigated carbon emissions recognizing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s exhortation that ‘.. there is no “Plan B” for action as there is no …
- Publication 16 August 2021 Biofuel Roadmap for India