Small hydropower

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    Finland
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    The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) provides green financing targeted at small and medium-sized projects with tangible, positive environmental impacts in the Nordic region – and in particular the Baltic Sea. Through its extensive fund management, activities in the Arctic and B

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    China
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    Renewable energy

    The International Center on Small Hydropower (ICSHP) is a public and non-profit institution under the auspices of UNIDO, China's Ministry of Water Resources(MWR) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).  It serves as headquarters of the International Network on Small Hydropower(INSHP),an

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    United Kingdom
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    Agriculture
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    Practical Action Consulting (PAC) is the consulting arm of Practical Action, an international non-governmental organisation that uses technology to challenge poverty in developing countries.

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    Japan
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    The Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC) is an entity that supports the UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), based in Japan.

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    Switzerland
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    Agriculture
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    Water

    South Pole is a leading provider of global sustainability services, with more than 300 experts in over 18 offices worldwide.

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    Central American states are aware of the implications of the climate change challenge and are attempting to combat it through the use of the abundant renewable resources of the region for energy generation and fossil fuels substitution. At the international level, the markets for greenhouse gas emission reductions and renewable electricity certificates have been fragmented. This picture is changing but a great deal of knowledge is required from the project developers to maximise the carbon benefits for their projects.

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    Spain
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    Early warning and Environmental assessment
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    Energy efficiency
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    OIKO LOGICA is a private sector organization established in 2003 with the mission to help communities and governments in vulnerable countries to prepare, face, integrate, comprehend, assimilate and absorb the challenge of climate change and sustainable development. 

     

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    France
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    Agriculture
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    Renewable energy
    Forestry
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    IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Research Institute for Development) - is a research organization based in France that is working with its partners in the South to address international development issues.

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    The objective of the Umbrella Project is to support development of an international market mechanism for the new commodity known as Emission Reductions(ER), under the framework of the Kyoto protocol. There are two components to the project. The first component of the project is to increase the production of environmentally sustainable renewable energy; and the second component of the project is to develop the markets for high quality emission reductions.