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This ‘broadcast-ready’ radio story has been produced by the UNFCCC secretariat for dissemination to radio stations in Africa, with the aim to make the CDM understandable and accessible to a broad audience. It introduces a fuel switch project that reduces fossil fuel use and brings additional benefits, such as the long-term sustainability of the local paper mill and economic improvement in the area where the project is located.

This ‘broadcast-ready’ radio story has been produced by the UNFCCC secretariat for dissemination to radio stations in Africa, with the aim to make the CDM understandable and accessible to a broad audience. It introduces a waste-to-energy project that collects and treats 200,000 tonnes of urban waste annually using anaerobic digesters. The resulting biogas is used to produce electricity, while residual waste is transformed into compost.

This ‘broadcast-ready’ radio story has been produced by the UNFCCC secretariat for dissemination to radio stations in Africa, with the aim to make the CDM understandable and accessible to a broad audience. It introduces a project that supported families in Kuyasa, a low-income informal settlement in the Khayelitsha township, to cut their electricity costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

This ‘broadcast-ready’ radio story has been produced by the UNFCCC secretariat for dissemination to radio stations in Africa, with the aim to make the CDM understandable and accessible to a broad audience. It stresses that in Nigeria, firewood consumption has led to severe deforestation and desertification. Highly efficient wood stoves are helping to tackle this problem. Households are saving money, youth are finding employment, and time that used to be spent collecting wood is now going to income generation.

This ‘broadcast-ready’ radio story has been produced by the UNFCCC secretariat for dissemination to radio stations in Africa, with the aim to make the CDM understandable and accessible to a broad audience. It stresses that CDM projects can help local communities in Africa by providing opportunities for sustainable development, creating employment or increased economic activity, improving air quality, and transferring technology. CDM projects can also earn credits that are tradable and saleable.

This document includes a statement from the FAO Intergovernmental Group on Meat and Dairy Products. It highlights that the livestock industry needs to take steps to reduce the high level of its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions as well as to adapt to climate change. The Intergovernmental Group has recommended that countries should coordinate their livestock policies and practices to help the sector achieve its full mitigation potential.

This activity report includes the proceedings of the Symposium on «Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Animal Production: A Policy Agenda», organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Asunción, Paraguay, 6-7 May 2009. It collects various interventions on the implications of the growth of the agriculture and livestock sectors for climate change.

This video highlights that continuing deforestation and forest degradation account for almost one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions more than the entire global transport sector. It explains how society can combat climate change by conserving and managing existing forests, by tackling causes of deforestation and by planting new forests. It stresses the use of wood as a renewable energy source and as a raw material, pointing out that wood products store carbon for their entire lifetime, until they decay or are burned.

This analytical report explores the multiple effects that global warming and climate change could have on food systems and food security. It also suggests strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change in several key policy domains of importance for food security. Finally, it describes the institutional setting for acting to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and draws conclusions for follow-up action by FAO and the international community.

This analytical report explores the linkage between deforestation and the agricultural sector. The authors compare the different factors contributing to deforestation in Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America, and argue that agricultural expansion is one of the most important among them. The report suggests ways forward for consolidating the global agendas of curbing climate change and ensuring food security for all.

This analytical report focuses on corruption risks involved with adaptation and REDD+. On adaptation, the report outlines three corruption risk areas: State capture and abuse of discretion; bribery, clientelism and cronyism leading to poorly designed programmes; and petty corruption in programme delivery. For REDD+, the authors highlight: powerful individuals or lobby groups influencing the design of national REDD+ frameworks; petty corruption, political corruption and grand corruption in the implementation phase resulting in fraudulent documentation and disregarding breaches of REDD+ laws; and corruption affecting the distribution of REDD+ revenues. Recommendations to reduce these risks are also included.

This policy document includes the UN-REDD Programme five-year strategy for 2011-2015.  This strategy provides a road map for increased support to UN-REDD partner countries for activities related to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, including conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+). It defines six key work areas for Programme support:  measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) and monitoring; national REDD+ governance; stakeholder engagement; multiple benefits of forests and REDD+; management of REDD+ payments; and REDD+ as a catalyst for transformations to a green economy.

This ILO background note expands on and complements the report «Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication» (UNEP, 2011). The ILO was closely involved in the preparation of this report and its major inputs have been collected in this note. In particular, it articulates the social dimension of a transition towards a green and sustainable economy. It emphasizes the need for skilled workers, qualified employers and informed and engaged labour market institutions and the importance of social dialogue as an essential tool for successful transformation.

This analytical report provides a preliminary framework for strengthening development institutions and programs in their capacity to address the communication dimension of the new challenges related to climate change and food security. It calls for the systematic design and use of participatory communication processes, strategies and community-media to share information and knowledge among relevant stakeholder, in a particular agro-ecological context, in order to encourage attitudes and practices that increase people’s resiliency and offer livelihood options to cope with climate change.

This analytical report provides an overview of the impact of climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa and discusses its implications for the agricultural sector. Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability and change because of multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity. Nonetheless, African farmers are well poised to adopt ecological agriculture, given that many of these sustainable practices are already in place and contributing to food production. Ecological agriculture is also an option that is easily accessible for Africa, where many farmers cannot afford expensive chemical inputs.

This document consists of an interactive map showing the typology of climate change impacts and response options for agricultural water management in selected agricultural systems around the world.

This document introduces the Organic Research Centre Alliance (ORCA). This uses a broad approach designed to promote farmers’ participation. Organic-based research focuses on diversity and mutual help, thus ensuring that producers can better manage risks and uncertainties posed by climate change and restricted economic conditions.

This technical document presents and discusses the EX-ACT analysis performed on two World Bank-supported projects in Brazil. The projected estimates of the impact of project activities on green house gas emissions and carbon sequestration demonstrate the additional environmental benefits achieved through protecting forested areas, enhancing production systems and expanding agro-forestry and perennial systems. The study demonstrated possible synergies between mitigation and rural development goals while the EX-ACT sensitivity analysis has indicated that projected results will be intermediate between “pessimistic” and “optimistic” scenarios.

This policy document aims to support the process of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in response to the need for concerted action on fisheries, aquaculture and climate change. It lays the groundwork for a coordinated response from the fisheries and aquaculture sector to climate change, notably through a strategic approach to maintain or enhance the health and resilience of global oceans and waters, and strengthening the capacity of dependent people and communities, integrating these closely into broader development strategies.

This policy document highlights various key issues to ensure that decision-makers and negotiators understand  climate change and its impacts. It also aims to make them aware of the opportunities for adaptation and mitigation in aquatic ecosystems, fisheries and aquaculture and to present how to integrate them in international, national and local responses to climate change.