Biblioteca

This guidance document provides a tool for local policy-makers and major stakeholders with a methodology to plan for climate change. These plans must address both mitigation (e.g., reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) and adaptation (responding to the impacts of climate change). If they are to be effective, local plans for climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) require the involvement of a variety of stakeholders and a specific focus on the most vulnerable groups.

This analytical documents provides a tool for government and other stakeholders that can assist with achieving more sustainable urban development. It facilitates an enabling environment that allows stakeholders to take advantage of urban opportunity. How to address climate change in cities and human settlements represents one of the most pressing challenges facing urban policy-makers today. It recommends how to mainstream such considerations into National Urban Policy, thus helping to empower national governments, local governments, and other stakeholders to effectively address climate change.

This guidance document presents the application of “Save and Grow” practices and technologies to production of the world’s key food security crops – maize, rice and wheat. With examples drawn from developing countries worldwide, the document shows how eco-friendly farming systems are helping smallholder producers to boost cereal yields, improve their incomes and livelihoods, conserve natural resources, reduce negative impacts on the environment, and build resilience to climate change. 

This analytical document investigates different examples of how SME Hotels have successfully incorporated renewable energy technologies into their facilities, as there is not a single, universal RET solution available.

This activity report displays case studies of selected hotels throughout Europe, showing the ways these hotels have successfully applied energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions and the benefits they incurred by the implementation of these changes.

This analytical document was developed for city planners to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the local level. Specifically targeted to the needs of planners and allied professionals in low and middle-income countries where the challenges of planning for climate change are particularly high.

This guidance document provides step by step instructions on the four basic steps to design a greenhouse has reporting program: determining program objectives; creating an enabling environment for program design and implementation; determining program structure and requirements; and conducting program review.

This guidance document focuses on the need to enhance understanding of the region’s key urban stakeholders on climate change, discusses how it affects efforts to realize sustainable urban development, and explores what actions can be taken to synergize continued commitments to poverty reduction alongside urban climate resilience.

This technical document identifies climate change risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investments and presents considerations for monitoring and evaluation strategies to track the effectiveness of such actions. 

This guidance document aims to provide Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) facilitators with information to enable them to discuss the topic of climate change, in particular its impact on agriculture and actions that farmers can undertake to reduce their vulnerability to climate change. 

This guidance document aims to help countries and institutions to understand how to calculate and use the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) in order to develop or further enhance their own drought monitoring and early warning capabilities. 

This guidance document explains the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs), which provides an incentive to reduce levels of pollution and promote cleaner systems of production and healthier communities and ecosystems. The Protocol will enable ordinary members of the public, simply by using the Internet, to find out about the major sources of polluting emissions in their immediate neighbourhoods. 

This guidance document presents the Aarhus Convention, which is a unique environmental treaty linking environmental rights with human rights.

This guidance document is intended as a convenient non-legally binding and user-friendly reference tool to assist policymakers, legislators and public authorities in their daily work of implementing the Convention and of realizing the provisions of Principle 10 in practice. The document draws on other international law instruments in the area of the environment and human rights.

This technical document sets baseline expectations for companies to provide proactive and constructive input to governments to advocate for the creation of effective climate policies. It connects the dots between sustainability commitments, such as emissions reductions across their value chains and efficiency improvements, with corporate policy positions.

This manual aims to support measuring or assessing forest governance. Forest governance comprises all the social and economic systems that affect how people interact with forests, including bureaucracies, laws, policies, traditional norms and culture, patterns of land tenure, and markets.

En Afrique, le changement climatique met clairement en péril la vie humaine et les moyens de subsistance. Les journalistes locaux ont des missions primordiales à accomplir. Pourtant, en Afrique, les médias peuvent et devraient en faire davantage pour parler du changement climatique. L’UNESCO a fait paraître cet ouvrage pour contribuer à remédier à cette lacune majeure.

This technical document aims at “demystifying” gender mainstreaming and providing practical guidance on how to systematically  address existing or potential gender inequalities specific to UNIDO’s energy and climate change interventions.

This technical document has for main objective to share relevant experiences in the refrigeration, air conditioning and foam sectors in which low-GWP technologies are employed, especially natural refrigerants and foam-blowing agents.

The knowledge of how the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy will affect employment, especially underlying job movements, is vital to informing policy, yet there are few comparable studies for developing countries. As part of the ILO’s Global Green Jobs Programme, this manual provides practical solutions to help fill these information gaps.