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    Low Carbon Development & Poverty: Exploring Poverty Alleviating and Mitigation Action in Developing Countries

    "Climate change and poverty generally fall into the adaptation category in current research literature and policymaking. If we acknowledge current findings of poverty research, we find that this separation between mitigation and adaptation does n…

    Holle Wlokas

    Britta Rennkamp

    Marta Torres

    • Low Carbon Development
    • Mitigation Actions
    • Poverty Alleviation
    • Developing Countries
    • Poverty
    • Carbon sequestration
    • Climatic changes
    30 pages

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    Emerging and Exponential Technologies: New Opportunities for Low-Carbon Development

    This paper discusses how new technologies can contribute to achieving climate change goals in developing countries, focusing on how emerging and exponential technologies can support, and potentially accelerate, the implementation of Nationally Det…

    Benjamin Combes

    Darius Nassiry

    Lizzy Fitzgerald

    Tarik Moussa

    • Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)
    • Low Carbon Development
    • Technology
    • Sustainable development--Developing countries
    • Climatic changes
    • Renewable energy sources--Technological innovations
    36 pages

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    How Can the Green Climate Fund Initiate a Paradigm Shift?

    "World leaders and governments paved the way for the establishment of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreements made at the Conference of Parties (COPs) in Copenhagen (2009) an…

    Sven Harmeling

    Linda Griesshaber

    • Green Climate Fund (GCF)
    • Low Carbon Development
    • Climate Resilient Development
    • Developing Countries
    • Climatic changes
    • Environmental management--Developing countries
    6 pages

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    MAPS Provocateur Briefing Report Forum on Development and Mitigation - Hunger, Poverty, Inequality and Climate Change Mitigation

    This paper outlines some key reflections from the Development and Mitigation Forum, hosted by the MAPS Programme in Cape Town in January 2014. The paper argues that the mitigation community needs to shift towards putting development first in ord…

    Rashmi Mistry

    • Low Carbon Development
    • High Carbon Growth
    • Mitigation
    • Poverty
    • Hunger
    • Climatic changes
    7 pages

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    Review of Linked Modelling of Low-Carbon Development, Mitigation and its Full Costs and Benefits

    This paper reviewed the modelling applications and models aimed at low carbon development. The conclusions and key messages follow from the literature on the state-of-the-art of models; variety of modelling studies, especially those focused on devel…

    P. R. Shukla

    • Low Carbon Development
    • Socio Economic Transformation
    • Mitigation
    • Energy Security
    • Climatic changes
    • Greenhouse gases
    46 pages

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    Solar Technologies and Forced Draft Cookstoves: Key to Household Contribution towards Low Carbon Development in Kenya

    "Lack of access to modern and clean forms of energy in most African countries remains a major challenge in cutting down greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere. The critical role energy plays in facilitating social-economic development…

    Amakobe Wycliffe

    • Low Carbon Development
    • Climate Resilience
    • Cookstoves
    • Household Energy Consumption
    • Solar energy
    • Carbon sequestration
    • Greenhouse gases
    • Biomass energy
    23 pages

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    A Review of the Kenyan Policy Environment for Off-grid Solar PV

    Energy has been identified as one of the foundations and enablers of the socio-economic transformation visualized by Kenya in its Vision 2030 development blueprint. However many Kenyans still do not have access to affordable energy which limits soci…

    Kevin Chika Urama

    Nicholas Ozor

    Edith Kirumba

    • Low Carbon Development
    • Solar Home Systems
    • Kenya Rural Electrification Master Plan
    • Solar energy
    • Energy policy--Developing countries
    • Climatic changes
    30 pages

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    Sustainable Development Planning in South Africa: a Case of Over-Strategizing?

    "Cross-governmental planning and coordinating policies are among the main challenges for sustainable, low carbon development. Why is sustainable development planning so ineffective? How can governments plan and coordinate public policy interventions…

    Britta Rennkamp

    • Low Carbon Development
    • Cross Governmental Planning
    • Sustainable development--Developing countries
    • Population--Economic aspects
    • Poverty
    15 pages

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