As the title suggests, the Newsletter aims to be a forum for policy-oriented discussions and debates about how the nature, evolution and challenges of development and transition intersect in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and also Turkey.
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 Climate ChangeIssue Number: 10/2008
This issue analyses the challenges posed by climate change for the Europe and CIS region. |
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Climate change implications for Eastern Europe and the CIS are in some ways different than for other parts of the world.
An inadequate legal framework, administrative barriers, and a lack of public awareness continue to limit prospects for renewable energy in Russia.
Russia’s Siberian deep freeze holds enormous stores of buried soil carbon. But the freezer has come unplugged—with potentially enormous consequences for climate change mitigation.
Russia could benefit if it viewed the problem of greenhouse gas emissions as a great opportunity to adopt energy efficiency measures.
This issue examines questions of energy and the environment in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The use of the gender lens is critical to understanding how transition and development affect women and men differently.
This issue examines the current state of the region's private sector, and how development agencies can strengthen its pro-poor characteristics.
This issue of Development and Transition discusses the challenge of economic and political transition amid the aftermath of military conflict and the difficulties of post-conflict recovery.
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