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The document serves as a practical toolkit for LDCs and SIDS to formulate INDCs, offering a modular template that covers national context, mitigation, adaptation, planning processes, and implementation means. It emphasizes the flexibility allowed for these nations under the Lima Call for Climate Action, suggesting both measure-based and outcome-based approaches to mitigation. The guide highlights the importance of identifying synergies between adaptation and mitigation to attract international support and demonstrate political ambition ahead of the 2015 Paris COP.

The document presents a transparency template based on the International Bar Association Mining Law Committee's Model Mining Development Agreement (MMDA 1.0). It includes a template of sections, an explanatory narrative, and a search for model oil and gas agreements. The report highlights that the effectiveness of mining agreements is often hindered by an imbalance of resources and capacity between negotiating parties, particularly in developing countries that struggle to field multidisciplinary teams of specialists.