Biblioteca

This manual focuses on climate change mitigation financing for smallholders. It is divided into sections on the role of climate change finance in the context of agricultural development and poverty reduction, and a guide to developing soil carbon sequestration crediting projects. Highlighting the interest in climate-smart agriculture, the guidebook describes opportunities that provide food security and mitigation benefits, but stresses that concerns remain over the ability to monitor and report on soil carbon emissions.

This manual provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how governments and other national actors can mainstream climate change adaptation into development planning as part of broader mainstreaming efforts. The guide draws on substantial experience and lessons learned by the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative in working with governments to integrate environmental management for pro-poor economic growth and development into national development planning and decision-making.

This manual includes a guide for governments, small and large organizations, businesses and individuals who want to embark on the path to climate neutrality. This concept – climate neutrality – is the subject of this book. True, there is a huge gulf between where we are now and the climate-neutral future that we need if we are to achieve sustainable development. But the message of this book is that the gulf is not uncrossable and that there is also a lot to gain. It will take patience, persistence and determination, but it can be done.

This analytical report summarises the outcomes of the 2001 Working Groups Three when it assessed the peer-reviewed expert literature on mitigation. The guide is not an official document. Instead, it represents an effort to make the hundreds of pages of detailed and technical text that constitute the volume on “Mitigation” more accessible to a broader
audience.

This analytical report is a guide to the Unite Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The document presents the Convention and explains its evolution. Additionally, it discusses the main issues related to climate change and shows how the Convention and its Protocol respond to these challenges.

This technical document provides a practical guide to water development projects on small islands. It is a useful advice for technicians, hydrologists, engineers and managers in identifying, assessing, developing, managing and protecting the water resources of these islands. It presents a selection of methods and best practices appropriate to the special conditions of small islands.

This brief provides a synthesis of the findings and recommends of an upcoming report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The document also shows the development and implementation of an inclusive green economy strategy or framework for water resource management in the Basin under the Lake Victoria Basin Commission.

This technical document presents Resource Efficent and Cleaner Production (RECP) and links it to climate change.

This analytical report, prepared by the UNU Maastricht Economic and social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), focuses on an Integrated Innovation Policy for an Integrated Problem: Climate Change, Resource Scarcity and Demographic Change.

This comprehensive resource kit on gender, population and climate change discusses how gender equality can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and how women are uniquely positioned to help curb the harmful consequences of a changing climate.

This technical document aims to present a background to resource-based conflicts and how they may be influenced by climate change in the Asia Pacific region. In so doing, this paper first examines the relationship between security, natural resources, and climate change. Second, this document looks specifically at this issue in the Asia-Pacific region, presenting case studies from South and West Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific. The paper also presents an appraisal of existing address of this issue and explores options for future action that may underpin peace and security in a climate change context at local and international levels.

This manual roots for natural resources as the foundation from which rural poor people can overcome poverty. It argues that planners and implementers of natural resource development projects do not always profit from the lessons learned – either information is lost or it is not easily accessible or changing circumstances may limit its value. This is why this manual encourages learning from the past. It does so by selecting case studies and citing how natural resources can be used to for sustainable management.

This policy document includes a roadmaps that explores the opportunities that a low carbon green growth path offers to the Asia-Pacific region. It articulates five tracks on which to drive the economic system change necessary to pursue low carbon green growth as a new economic development path. In particular, it highlights that the “visible structure” of the economy, comprising such physical infrastructure as transport, buildings and energy systems, together with the “invisible structure”, which encompasses market prices, governance, regulations and lifestyles, have to be re-oriented towards resource efficiency. The roadmap provides policymakers in the region with a comprehensive list of policy options and practical implementing strategies as well as examples of successful practices, woven through more than 100 fact sheets and case studies.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to adapt water resource management in Comoros to increase capacity to cope with climate change. The document features the project background, the activities implemented and the results obtained. Coordination and synergies with other initiatives are also included.

This manual consists of a comprehensive resource kit on gender, population and climate change developed by UNFPA and WEDO. It shows how gender equality can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and how women are uniquely positioned to help curb the harmful consequences of a changing climate.

This manual consists of a resource kit providing comprehensive guidelines on planning the National Communication Project, implementing the Technical Components (The Greenhouse Gas Inventory, The Mitigation Assessment, The V&A Assessment), and Putting Plans into Action. According to the UNFCCC, all parties must report on the steps they are taking or envisage undertaking to implement the Convention by: reporting to the Conference of the Parties (COP) on emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol; national or, where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to mitigate, and to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change; and any other information that the Party considers relevant to the achievement of the objective of the Convention.

This activity report presents a summary of the Green Development and Climate Change Programme challenges and successes during its first year of the implementation phase (2014 – 2017)

Stakeholder and public support are critical for an enduring and robust carbon pricing policy. How jurisdictions communicate their carbon pricing policy plays a key role in creating and maintaining that support. Drawing on case studies, research and best practice, the report provides guidance on designing and implementing effective carbon pricing communications strategies.

The Ship Emissions Toolkit provides a structured framework as well as decision support tools for evaluating
emissions reduction opportunities in maritime transport. This guidance document provides useful information for policy-makers and legislators in countries preparing for accession to the 1997 Protocol or for contracting Parties to the 1997 Protocol which have not yet developed the legal framework to implement the regulations in MARPOL Annex VI in the domestic legislation.