Publications and media
Green Growth and its Implications for Public Policy: The Case of South Africa
South Africa is a rapidly growing middle-income economy with a coal-based energy system that generates high greenhouse gases emissions, on a par with the richest economies in the world. The country ha...
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AFD and sustainable urban transport and mobility
Urban mobility is a core challenge for cities. In order to ensure that development is sustainable, inclusive and economically effective, the challenge lies in limiting the congestion that hinders citi...
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Facilitating green skills and jobs in developing countries
Des emplois et des compétences intégrants mieux les enjeux environnementaux sont indispensables pour à la fois lutter contre le changement climatique et s’adapter à ses effets. La transition vers une...
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Transitioning towards a low-carbon economy in Mexico: an application of the ThreeME model
This document offers an empirical application of the notion of energy transition to the Mexican economy and it takes the next step of simulating medium- and long-term impacts of proposed and future en...
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Double Dividend of Low-carbon Growth in Mexico: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Assessment
This paper simulates the medium- and long-term impact of proposed and expected energy policy on the environment and on the Mexican economy. The analysis has been conducted with a Multi-sector Macroeco...
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Vulnerabilities to climate change in the French overseas territories and small island states
The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI) measures the vulnerability of small island territories to the impacts of climate change, whether periodic (cyclones, droughts) or progressive...
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Actors and networks of agroecology in the Greater Mekong Subregion
A comparative analysis of agroecology network led to a classification based on their conditions of emergence, their structure and governance mechanisms. The study points the strengths and weaknesses o...
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Climate : how can a development agency help?
Our planet is warming. Why? Who are the foremost victims? And what are development agencies doing to ensure the transition towards a more low-carbon world? The more humankind goes forward, the more i...
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Beyond the maps
Through several interviews, this film shows how the African scientific community has appropriated technology to sustainably manage logging in forests, to the benefit of the people living in the Congo...
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Evaluation Summary - Credit line to the Industrial Development Bank of Türkiye (TSKB)
For the “Climate” sector, the credit line to the Industrial Development Bank of Türkiye was subject to an evaluation in May 2015. In the context of the Turkish economy’s rapid growth and developmen...
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Cities in Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Based on an in-depth review of scientific and institutional literature, this document seeks to identify what urban measures contribute efficiently to low-carbon urban development. It focuses on the co...
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Agriculture, Forests and Climate Change: Can Labelling Play a Part?
In the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, the international community agreed to mitigate climate change by assuring that global temperature will not increase more than 2°C between the pre-industrial period (1...
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Climate Change Adaptation in Cities: the conditions for success
For cities to protect themselves against climate change, strong political commitment is of course necessary. But just this is not enough: A panoply of institutional, strategic and social factors is al...
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Renewable Energy in the Pacific Islands: an overview and exemplary projects
More largely, in the context of the fight against climate change, the subject of renewable energies takes on considerable importance. A large number of island States in the Pacific zone are extremely...
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Agroecology: Evaluation of 15 Years of AFD Support
This document is a summary of the final report on the external evaluation of 15 years of support actions by Agence Française de Développement and the French Facility for Global Environment – FFGE in a...
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The Perception and Management of Risk - Applied Methodological Approaches to Development
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 19th to 27th July 2013 at the University of Đà Lạt on the topic of...
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Indonesia Climate Change Programme Loan (ICCPL)
In close partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010, JICA and AFD approved a series of “climate” budget loans to the Indonesian Government in order to facilitate the design and implementation of an ambitious...
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Institutional Pathways for Local Climate Adaptation: A Comparison of Three South African Municipalities
Cette recherche porte sur les facteurs politiques, institutionnels et sociaux à l'origine de l'initiation de l'adaptation climatique à Cape Town, Durban et Theewaterskloof, localement considérées comm...
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The Governance of Climate Change in Developing Countries - A Report on International and Domestic Climate Chan...
Climate change has become the most important global issue of our time and now occupies a key place on the global governance agenda. Recent attempts to create a concrete framework for mitigation have f...
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Energy Efficiency Policies in China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam
Most papers dealing with energy efficiency policies focus on the policies and measures implemented in OECD countries and this may lead one to think that only the “rich” countries are developing effort...
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