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Policy Report

Shaping the economy of sustainable development: An overview of policies and initiatives supporting the shift towards sustainable consumption and production patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author:
Jose
Domenech
This report presents an overview of policies and initiatives related to sustainable consumption and production advanced by the governments of the Latin American and Caribbean region. Although not pretending to present an exhaustive overview, the report was developed based on extensive literature review as well as on the results of a pilot survey...
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Peer-reviewed Article

Remote sensing image fusion at the segment level using a spatially-weighted approach: Applications for land cover spectral analysis and mapping

In ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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A new method was developed for mapping forest, agricultural, and urban land cover using remote sensing imagery. It is designed to better detect small land cover objects (e.g. small forest or agricultural patches) and monitor their change (e.g. fine-scale deforestation) using freely-available satellite imagery.
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Peer-reviewed Article

Direct versus embodied emissions: Criteria for determining the carbon coverage for border carbon adjustment

In Carbon Management
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For effective and practical implementation of border carbon adjustment, it is crucial to determine the carbon content of imports/exports. In this paper we discussed two criteria. One is direct carbon emissions, which accounts for direct emissions generated from production. The other is embodied emissions which accounts for the total emissions...
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Non Peer-reviewed Article

Mobility and Energy Policies to Achieve Net Zero Emissions as Key Opportunities to Build a Prosperous Society

In IATSS Review
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The transport sector is one of the main sources of global GHG emissions, of which road transport emissions are greatest. The decarbonisation of road transport requires systemic changes combined with technological interventions to optimise the use of transport modes. Given the diverse options for road transport decarbonisation due to differences in...
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Presentation

Biodiversity Conservation from a Climate Change Perspective

Side Event "Intergenerational dialogue for strengthening the linkage between biodiversity and climate change Third Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies and UNFCCC COP27 to CBD COP15" CBD/COP15 Rio Conventions Pavilion
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This invited presentation was delivered at side event "Intergenerational dialogue for strengthening the linkage between biodiversity and climate change: Third Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies and UNFCCC COP27 to CBD COP15" CBD/COP15 Rio Conventions Pavilion organized by COND and CYJ during CBD/COP15. Programme: http://www.cbd.int/rcp...
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Keywords:
Biodiversity
climate change
synergies
localization
Conference Proceeding

Landscape approach for biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development co-benefits

Author:
Sacha
Amaruzaman
Verónica
Rojo
Bibiana
Vilá
Himangana
Gupta
On Thursday 2 December 2021, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) convened a session entitled “Landscape Approaches for Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Co-benefits” at the 13th International Forum for Sustainable Asia...
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