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Extreme Weather Events: Focus on the Philippines 2009 YearBook |
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We are pleased to share
with you the release of the FOCUS ON THE PHILIPPINES 2009 YEARBOOK: Extreme
Weather Events. The 320-page publication covers key issues and
events in the Philippines. The book was first shared with Focus friends and
partners during our 15th Year Anniversary Celebration last January
20, 2010.
To request for a copy, please contact: Lourdes Torres at lou_torres[at]focusweb.org, +63 2 4330899
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Occasional Paper 7: World Bank & Asian Development Bank: Carbon Trading and Climate Finance in India |
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by Konrad Fisher
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Occasional Papers 6: CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHINA: Technology, Market and Beyond |
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 A report for Focus on the Global South by Dale Jiajun Wen
China plays an important role of representing the interests of developing countries in the current climate change negotiations through the mechanism of 77+China. As the most important emitter in developing countries it is facing an enormous challenge to fulfill its international obligations to reduce its CO2 emissions, while at the same time address its domestic responsibilities to meet the human development needs of hundreds of millions of its people that are still living in poverty.
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Ocassional Papers 5: BACKGROUND PAPER: Investment Liberalization In the EU-ASEAN FTA |
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 by Ignacio Jose Minambres
With the increasing importance of Investment Flows and the impossibility to get agreements for its liberalization at the multilateral level, the developed economies are pushing for its inclusion in one way or another in the bilateral trade agreements that are being negotiated and signed, more ostensibly since the collapse of the Doha Round of the WTO.
Through the study of the agreements already signed by the EU we can foresee what will be the expectations the European bloc has for the negotiations it is holding with the ASEAN nations. In this paper we try to make a first analysis an understanding of what it is aiming to get and how it would affect a set of countries with such disparities as ASEAN.
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New Power Politics in Asia: Briefing note on the Shanghai Cooperation Organzation |
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 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a regional mechanism, which
was created in 2001 and consists of the following:
People's Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan. It was inspired by the need to solve the border disputes lingering between the Soviet Union's successor states and China in the wake of the end of the Cold War. Originally a Chinese initiative, taken after resolving their border problems with Central Asia and Russia, it was also profitable for the Central Asian States, which were lacking in consistency, stability and resources in the midnineties and struggling to establish multilateral and bilateral relations beyond the region. It was also designed as a platform to balance the role of the United States in the Central Asian region.
Main findings of this paper :
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The SCO has been able to meet with its initial objective to establish
geopolitical multipolarity in Central Asia and check the US advance into
the region.
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It is a reflection of the emerging multi-polar world.
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Its increasingly acquiring strength is suggestive of becoming a major political force of the Eurasian region.
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The SCO will play a vital role in ensuring international security.
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