Carbon transactions are defined as purchase contracts or ERPAs (Emission Reductions Purchase Agreements) whereby one party pays another party in return for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions that the buyer can use to meet its compliance or corporate citizenship - objectives vis-a-vis GHG mitigation. Payment is made using one or more of the following forms: cash, equity, debt, or in-kind contributions.

Many African countries have thin energy and industrial sectors with limited opportunities to reduce carbon emissions, certainly relative to countries such as China and India. Carbon sequestration from avoided deforestation and from agriculture--potentially important areas for climate mitigation and important in many African economies--has been systematically excluded from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Focuses on the impacts of climate change on reindeer husbandry in the Arctic and local adaptation techniques that could be useful and cooperation for others that need to be developed and shared.

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A research paper by Jochen Hinkel and Timo Menniken on institutional adaptation to the effects of climate change in management of transboundary river basins, published in 2007 by Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrueck.

This paper evaluates the possible impacts of climate change and land use change and its combined effects on erosion and deposition in the Mae Nam Nan sub-catchment, Thailand. Soil loss models were employed to estimate soil loss and net soil loss under direct impact (climate change), indirect impact (land use change) and full range of impact (climate and land use change) to generate results at a 10 year interval between 2020 and 2040.

El objetivo de este documento es presentar un diagnóstico sobre la situación de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional (SAN) de América Latina y el Caribe.

Este documento se trata de una ruta de posible convergencia en torno a principios básicos sobre la manera de abordar la cuestión territorial de los pueblos indígenas a partir de los principios que rigen la comunidad internacional y han sido consagrados en varios documentos de las Naciones Unidas, y de las experiencias concretas que los participantes en este debate han adquirido y siguen acumulando en materia de tierra y territorios autóctonos.

Documento final de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas Rio +20 llevada a cabo en Rio de Janeiro - Brasil del 20 al 22 de junio de 2012.

El número 74 del Dossier sobre cambio climático elaborado por el Insituto Prisma. Documentos a nivel regional sobre cambio climático desde la visión y experiencia de diferentes países.

Exposición de Marcelo Arandia de OXFAM para el seminario "Políticas e inversión pública preparada para el desarrollo agropecuario" realizado el 22 de marzo de 2012 en el salón Illimani del Hotel Radisson de la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia.