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A healthy environment and equitable access to ecosystem goods and services are crucial for sustainable development, but they are increasingly threatened. To improve lives around the globe for the long term, we must change our relationship with the environment: growth and sustainability can go hand in hand if this imperative is met at all levels. An inclusive green economy offers a possible pathway.

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CARISMA Working Document 2 - Policy Interaction between EU ETS and RED

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 2 August 2017

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The EU has opted to integrate climate and energy policies. The over-achievement of the renewable energy target meant that the power sector reduced the demand for EU ETS allowances (EUAs). This Working Document discusses conditions for reducing such negative policy interactions. This CARISMA Working...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA Working Document 1 - Policy Database Analysis

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 2 August 2017

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Information on policies mitigating climate change, which could meet key information needs in a post-Paris world, is increasingly available in online databases. However, the available information suffers from several shortcomings, which are discussed in this Working Document. This CARISMA Working...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA D6.2 Discussion Paper No. 1 - Contextual factors affecting EU climate policies and their outcomes

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 2 August 2017

carisma_discussion_paper_no._1_-_contextual_factors_affecting_eu_climate_policies_and_their_outcomes.pdf 881.43 KB

Institutional, economic and social contexts influence the formulation as well as the implementation of climate policy instruments. To design more robust and adaptive instruments, it is necessary to understand different categories and types of contextual factors that are central to EU climate change...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA D7.1 How should international institutions promote research and innovation technologies collaboration for climate change mitigation (May 2017)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 2 August 2017

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This policy brief provides guidance and recommendations to international institutions on how to get involved in climate change mitigation collaboration projects around research and innovation. It does so by looking closely at experiences of past and current research and innovation collaborations in...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA D7.2 Government-led international research and innovation collaboration in climate mitigation: Practical guidance for policy makers (May 2017)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 2 August 2017

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As collaborative research and innovation (R&I) initiatives have the potential to advance climate technology transfer across borders, in particular in developing countries, European governments have put in place various initiatives to facilitate deployment of climate technologies. In the CARISMA...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA Policy Brief "Outsourcing and Offshoring R&D in Green Technology to Emerging Economies" (August 2016)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 1 August 2017

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Research and development (R&D) in new low-emission technologies is increasingly taking place on a global scale. This policy brief present findings from ongoing research conducted by the UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP)on the globalization of R&D in green technology as part of the CARISMA project...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
CARISMA Commentaries Issue 1 - Reviewing Implementation under the Paris Agreement (February 2016)

CARISMA Project uploaded a new Document | 1 August 2017

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With the emergence of a system of voluntary pledges by countries from the Paris Agreement, attention will soon shift to the ‘review’ part of ‘pledge and review’. This commentary discusses the types of review included in the Paris Agreement and highlights evaluation and assessment of climate...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
Strategic Environmental Assessment

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun updated the WIKI page | 31 July 2017

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic process for evaluating the environmental implications of a proposed policy, plan or programme and provides means for looking at cumulative effects and appropriately address them at the earliest stage of decision making alongside economic...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
THE EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN «WORLD AQUARIUMS AGAINST MARINE LITTER» WAS LAUNCHED AT THE MONACO OCEANOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 31 July 2017

One of the first aquariums to join the movement, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco and its Director, Robert Calcagno, welcomed this Thursday 27 July HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs And Fisheries, Erik Solheim, Head of the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Join the GLOBAL MANGROVE ALLIANCE!!!

Lea Appulo posted Information | 31 July 2017

The GLOBAL MANGROVE ALLIANCE was launched on 26 July, International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. The Mangrove Alliance brings together Conservation International, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, WWF and Wetlands International. Our aim: to expand the global extent of mangroves...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA

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