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This analytical report stresses that the development, deployment, and diffusion, including transfer, of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries to significantly reduce the emission of greenhouse gases require vast amounts of investment. Since the required amounts of investment are much more than the funds currently available from public sources, it is necessary to attract funding from other sources by creating innovative financing approaches that make it possible for a limited amount of public funds to attract significant amounts of funding from private sources.

This activity report provides an overview of EGTT achievements over the last five years. Since the adoption of the Marrakesh Accords, work on the development and transfer of technologies under the UNFCCC process has focused on the implementation of activities identified under each key theme of the technology transfer framework: technology needs and needs assessments, technology information, enabling environments, capacity-building, and mechanisms for technology transfer.

This policy document provides organizations and Parties with a concise overview of the Nairobi work programme, including its aims, areas of work, and details of submissions. It also elaborates on the avenues available for getting involved.

This activity report takes stock of progress so far in implementing the activities of the Nairobi Work Programme, familiarizing readers with deliverables available, key outcomes from workshops, new ways of becoming involved and future work.

This UNFCCC leaflet introduces the mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol, including graphics on emission trading.

This policy document provides an update to the 2007 UNFCCC report on investment and financial flows to address climate change. The update was prepared to feed into negotiations on a comprehensive process to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action, now, up to and beyond 2012.

This policy document provides an initial assessment of the financial architecture required for developing a post 2012 regime and presents an overview of what level of resources and measures would be needed for successfully financing the international response to climate change, for making future climate change policies a success and ultimately, for crafting a climate-secure world for all.

This analytical report highlights the concerns and needs of developing countries in adapting to the effects of climate change. This book outlines the impact of climate change in four developing country regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America and small island developing States; the vulnerability of these regions to future climate change; current adaptation plans, strategies and action; and future adaptation options and needs.

This fact sheet explains the process of emission reporting under the UNFCCC, including a glossary of key terms.

This analytical report presents the main features and consequences of climate change. The Rio Conventions – the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – are addressing adaptation to climate change in their activities and are working together to enhance synergies in the area of adaptation. This report represents a first step to enhance collaboration towards linking climate change adaptation, combating desertification, and biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.

This analytical report is the first step to enhance collaboration between the areas of climate change, forests, combating desertification, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. According to the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the conservation and restoration of forests can considerably reduce emissions at a low cost and with potential co-benefits for adaptation and sustainable development. Further co-benefits can be achieved when steps to combat land degradation and conserve biodiversity are included in forest conservation and restoration.

This manual aims to help governments, researchers and others interested in the international climate change negotiations navigate through the complex web of activities undertaken by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP) to advance the implementation of the Convention. The handbook is structured along two parts. Part I focuses on the process side of the international climate change negotiations, while Part II provides an overview of the activities related to the implementation of the UNFCCC.

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 analytical report, prepared in the tenth anniversary year of the adoption of the Convention, provides an overview of the international climate change process as of May 2002. It focuses on the institutions and procedures of the Convention and the Protocol, on the participants in the climate change process, and on how the on-going negotiations are conducted.

This analytical report is an attempt to provide an overview of the Climate Change Convention’s and Protocol evolution, as well as to explain both agreements in plain language. It also provides an overview of the commitments that countries have taken on. Also available in Turkish.

This technical document explains what climate change is about and what action is being taken at the global level in order to contrast it. It provides a detailed overview of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol in plain language. 

This activity report describes progress achieved in combating climate change since 1994 and presents some of the wide range of actions, policies and approaches as reported in national communications from Parties to the Convention.

This analytical report provides an overview of the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, and outlines the commitments that countries have taken on so far. It also highlights several of the building blocks already understood to be needed for an ambitious post-2012 climate change framework – the type of international framework that can bring about emission reductions whilst generating essential and significant funding for adaptation.

This UNFCCC fact sheet introduces the Kyoto Protocol, including a list with projected greenhouse gas emissions for Annex I Parties of the Convention.

This activity report is the third in a series, produced to inform parties, organizations, and those interested in adaptation about the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. It looks at the progress made during the first Phase of the programme and gives an outlook to the second Phase and surrounding issues.