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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    The concept of "Green Growth" is a focus of much interest and considerable debate among decision makers concerned with enhancing both nearer-term economic progress and longer-term environmental sustainability. Proponents of Green Growth emphasize not only the need to protect various forms of natural capital to sustain improvements in material living standards and poverty reduction, but also the potential for strategically crafted environmental policies to achieve sustainability at low cost, perhaps even to help stimulate growth.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    Cambodia

    Twenty years after the Paris Peace Agreements, the Special Rapporteur takes stock of progress in Cambodia's human rights situation, with particular emphasis on land issues and land concessions. The report is based on missions to Cambodia in December 2011 and May 2012. The first enabled a human rights assessment of State institutions relevant to the electoral process in Cambodia, including the laws, policies and practices applicable to elections.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    Cambodia

    This 2012 report is an assessment of the human rights impact of economic land concessions (ELCs) and other land concessions and major development projects in Cambodia. It includes not only an analysis of concessions pertaining to agroindustry (for example, rubber, sugar, acacia and cassava plantations), but also to concessions for mining, oil and gas, forestry, and concessions for the purposes of tourism, property development, and large scale infrastructure, such as hydropower dams.

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    Under the Kyoto Protocol to the United
    Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the
    industrialized countries adopted quantified emission
    reductions obligations. Marking the 10th anniversary of the
    establishment of the World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
    the world's first global carbon fund, this report seeks
    to take stock of the World Bank's experience of working
    with the Kyoto Protocol's project-based mechanisms over

  5. Library Resource

    Stories from the ground gathered from Ekta Parishad activists

    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2012
    Asia

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Philippines

    The theme of the 2011 Philippines
    development report is 'generating inclusive growth,
    uplifting the poor and vulnerable'. This theme is
    follows from the priorities set in President Aquino's
    Social Contract and the emerging 2011-2016 Philippines
    Development Plan (PDP). The PDP details the vision of
    inclusive growth and poverty reduction that underlies the
    social contract (chapter one). Accordingly, the PDP focuses

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2012
    Myanmar, Global

    The Challenge of hunger: ensuring sustainable food security under land, water and energy stresses..."World hunger, according to the 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI), has
    declined somewhat since 1990 but remains “serious.” The global
    average masks dramatic differences among regions and countries.
    Regionally, the highest GHI scores are in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. South Asia reduced its GHI score significantly between

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2012
    Myanmar

    Commentary: Why people still flee Shan State and seek refuge in other countries...
    Contents: Themes & Places of Violations reported in this issue...
    MAP...
    Situation of people fleeing their native places in Kae-See...
    Land confiscation and mining project causing people to flee, in Murng-Su...
    Military operation, forced labour and extortion, causing people to flee, in Murng-Kerng...
    Continuing forced labour, forced recuruitment and extortion causing people to flee, in Lai-Kha...

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    The reality of climate change associated
    with anthropogenic emissions is now widely acknowledged by
    the scientific community. Its potential devastating future
    harms are equally well perceived and as stated in the
    Copenhagen Accord major nations agree on the need to jointly
    and urgently combat climate change. The international
    community is also quite aware that stabilizing atmospheric
    concentrations of green-house gases (GHG) at supportable

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