Biblioteca

The activity report reviews experience with the CDM over its first few years of operation (i.e., 2002 through mid-2006) and assesses progress thus far in its growth and evolution.

The policy document includes the Human Development Report 2007/2008. This shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunities and reinforcing inequality.

This policy document provides policy makers with key information about the four main building blocks of the Bali Action Plan: mitigation, adaptation, technology and finance. In addition, it discusses also land-use change and forestry.

This policy document outlines the key issues related to the Clean Development Mechanism considered by the fourth Conference of the Parties (COP4) to the Climate Change Convention to the Kyoto Protocol in Buenos Aires in 1998.

This activity report consists of a Kemal Dervis’ article published in the special edition of the UN Chronicle, Green Our World!? which offers a comprehensive snapshot of where we currently stand with regard to climate change through a range of different perspectives. It stresses that climate change represents a major challenge for the world community and concludes that UNDP is determined to play its part in meeting this global challenge.

This article from the Far Eastern Economic Review’s November 2007 edition examines whether Asian countries will emerge as leaders of the low-carbon revolution. Asia has the skills, labor, technology base and entrepreneurship to lead the low-carbon revolution. Asia’s private sector can seize the opportunity to lead the revolution of decarbonization just as it has led the race for globalization. But Asia’s dynamic private sector needs governments to provide the enabling framework and incentives to make this happen.

This document briefly introduces the UNDP’s Human Development Report 2007/8, Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world. After presenting the main scientific data, the paper states that the challenge of climate change will require collective action, with global participation, but justice and political feasibility dictate that rich countries should provide leadership and move first.

This factsheet covers end-use energy efficiency, in particular for products and buildings, and how this can become the most successful, cost effective, greenhouse gas emission abatement measure used by each and every country.

This manual is designed as a reference tool primarily for UNDP Country Offices to learn more about the opportunities and challenges of the CDM and implement projects efficiently and equitably in a variety of national and sectoral contexts.

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 manual builds on existing material and focuses on providing practical guidance on the key technical issues in relation to climate scenario information within the context of preparing Second National Communications. The document underlines the vital importance of a planning/scoping exercise to define clearly the needs for climate scenario information; describes a three-stage approach for climate scenario development; highlights documentation as an integral part of scenario development and provides a list of freely accessible sources of models, tools, data and guidance materials.

This manual supports the compilation of a national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory. This requires a fairly lengthy and interconnected series of tasks, including collecting emission factors and activity data, selecting appropriate methods, estimating GHG emissions and removals, implementing uncertainty assessment and quality assurance/quality control procedures, reporting the results, and documenting and archiving all relevant data and procedures. The target audience for this handbook is non-Annex I Party inventory experts concerned with general aspects of GHG inventory planning, preparation and management. As the majority of non-Annex I Parties have prepared at least one national GHG inventory, this handbook focuses on improving and updating the GHG inventory and on managing these processes, including improved documentation and archiving.

This manual consists of a handbook that provides a systematic framework for preparing socioeconomic scenarios for assessment of both climate change impact and adaptation across differing spatial scales.

This manual is aimed at non-Annex I Parties that are engaged in the process of preparing vulnerability and adaptation (V&A) assessments for their national communications under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The use of this step-by-step workbook will facilitate the construction of national and regional climate scenarios, using MAGIC and SCENGEN.

This manual aims to describe the steps required to generate high-resolution climate change scenarios using the model PRECIS and taking into account remaining gaps in information and understanding. In fact, it is important that adaptation decisions are based on a range of climate scenarios accounting for the many uncertainties associated with projecting future climate.

This slide presentation discusses and assesses UNDP’s activities related to the development of small sized CDM projects. It includes the main results of the study, the conclusions that can be drawn from them and a list of recommendations. 

This slide presentation outlines UNDP and GEF climate change initiatives and opportunities in Asia and the Pacific, with particular attention to renewable energy production. It also explains what are the implications of accelerated climate change and what are the best solutions available.

This slide presentation covers proposed and ongoing UNDP Initiatives. In particular it focuses on the GEF-KAM industrial energy efficiency project. This aims to remove barriers to energy efficiency and conservation (information, technical, financial, institutional); to enhance energy efficiency in SMEs, and enable investments in energy efficiency, to reduce CO2 emissions; to promote industrial high quality products at lower costs; to increase the institutional capability to implement energy efficiency projects.

This slide presentation describes the National Strategies Study Program (NSSP). It presents its main features, instruments and organization. A list of NSS countries is also included. Furthermore the main outcomes and experiences are reported.

This slide presentation introduces the prototype carbon fund and carbon finance at the World Bank. The main objective of these two initiatives is to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, to build capacity and to mainstream low-carbon technologies in order to create a market for project-based carbon offsets under the Kyoto Protocol.