Reports and Documents

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Social assessment of conservation initiatives: a review of rapid methodologies

Areas of land and sea are increasingly being marked out for protection in response to various demands: to tackle biodiversity loss, to prevent deforestation as a climate change mitigation strategy, and to restore declining fisheries.

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Revised draft on regulation of energy drinks, and caffeine

Energy drinks are non-alcoholic beverages containing caffeine, guarana, glucuronolactone, taurine, ginseng, inositol, carnitine, B-vitamins etc. as main ingredients that act as stimulants. In recent years, a number of different energy drinks have been introduced in the Indian market to provide an energy boost or as dietary supplements.

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Analysis of capacity development for biodiversity and ecosystem services

This document provides an analysis of capacity development for
biodiversity and ecosystem services with a view to facilitating discussions at the third ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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R&D investment in national and international agricultural research

This paper estimates required investment and its allocation among different regions to maximize agricultural output gains and poverty reduction. The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and development (R&D) investment across developing regions to maximize agricultural growth or to maximize poverty reduction at the global level.

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Empowering people after natural disasters

This brief explains the importance of empowering people after natural disasters by giving them access to their rights and entitlements, allowing them to reconstruct the legal foundation for their lives and livelihoods.

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Issues relating to the transformation of pledges for emission reductions into quantified emission limitation

This technical paper presents issues relating to the transformation of pledges for emission reductions into quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives (QELROs). It provides a brief explanation of this transformation and illustrates the effect that different variables have on it.

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