Learning Events

This knowledge event on climate-smart  approaches to agriculture provides a forum for dialogue among participants from countries and the broader public on how to address the challenges of food insecurity and climate change. It is also an opportunity to present the latest cross-sectoral programmes and activities on agriculture (including crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture) and climate change. The knowledge shared in the event seeks to support country efforts in addressing agriculture, food security and climate change, including during the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

This webinar on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) focuses on how agriculture carbon projects are monitored. Since agriculture carbon projects are relatively new in the carbon finance family, monitoring of carbon sequestration in agriculture projects remains a major issue for agriculture project developers. The Kenya Agriculture Carbon Project managers and technical staff talk about how they monitor agriculture carbon based on their own experiences.

This side event on supporting research, training and institutional capacity development to address cimate change through South-South North collaboration discusses results and lessons learned from developing and testing tools and methods to support climate change decision-making in developing countries through a global network involving 9 partners institutions in the South and North.

During this side event, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) presents its work on international aviation and climate change and showcases innovative projects pivotal in pushing ahead the aviation sector towards its sustainable future. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) presents its work to support developing countries to address GHG emissions from international shipping.

This seminar presents current and future sustainability issues in European cities. It provides the platform for a shared discussion on how to respond to these economic, social and environmental challenges in order to achieve sustainable urban development in the wider European region. The seminar consists of two thematic panels and a final session. The two thematic panels focus on: 1) energy, transport and technologies in cities and 2) ageing and accessibility in cities. During the final session, conclusions and recommendations from the thematic panel discussions are drawn with the aim to identify potential joint activities on sustainable urban development.

This webinar disucusses strategic planning for climate-smart agriculuture and highlights that synergies and trade-offs are inherent in the attempt to achieve the triple wins of food security, increased resilience and mitigation to climate change. It helps to develop a better understanding of economic and social synergies and trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and food security and provides an insight into integrated models and decision-support tools for national decision makers in order to help prioritize agricultural actions, technologies and practices.

This workshop aims to promote discussion between global stakeholders, identifying the way forward to guide the development of the aviation biofuels industry assuring its sustainability and pro-poor focus. Biofuels, originating from biomass crops represent one of the possible ways to reduce aviation CO2 emissions, to allow airlines to cut spending due to fuel cost increases and to favour opportunities of agricultural and non-agricultural employment for poor countries. The target audience includes a diverse range of stakeholders, such as policy makers, governments, international and multilateral development organizations, private sector, academia, civil society and media.

This e-learning course focuses on disaster risk management (DRM) at the city level. Participants are expected to learn, in particular, about planning and decision making under uncertainty and how to make their cities more resilient to climate change impacts and natural disasters. The course provides cutting edge tools on vulnerability assessment, institutional assessment and gap analysis, and on how to access finance for risk management. It includes case studies from cities around the world, presentations, videos and a selection of readings for further in-depth knowledge. In addition, discussion forums are organized and facilitated around each module, fostering participation and knowledge sharing among peers.

This programme aims to assess the impact of climate change in a region and to reduce vulnerabilities through the latest technologies and methodologies necessary to downscale and the appropriate use of downscaled information. The training module consists of the following course categories: science of climate change and downscaling, dynamical and statistical downscaling methods, impacts on rice production and impacts on floods. Participants are also receive practical training in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in downscaling and modelling extreme climatic events. The course focuses on the water and food sectors.

This webinar discusses Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), stressing that it offers triple-win, i.e. improving food security, building climate resilience, and mitigating GHG impact through carbon sequestration. The event focuses on the third pillar of the triple-win – mitigating climate change impact through developing agriculture carbon projects. In particular, the speakers, Johannes Woelcke and Timm Tennigkeit, talk about how to develop innovative agriculture carbon projects that benefit smallholder farmers in developing countries.

This workshop brings together Global Environment Facility (GEF) focal points, focal points from the main conventions (biodiversity, desertification, climate change and persistent organic pollutants), representatives from civil society and representatives from the GEF Secretariat and the GEF Agencies to discuss priority issues and share lessons and experiences from the development and implementation of GEF projects and their integration within national policy frameworks. Countries eligible to participate in this Expanded Constituency Workshop for Asia are: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and China.