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This brief shows the comments of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on the entry into force on 4 November of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. 

This submission highlights some key entry points for human rights integration in implementation of the Paris Agreement including in the processes and mechanisms outlined for measurement, reporting and verification. 

This submission shows that OHCHR’s emphasis on the capacity-building in the area of human rights and climate change. 

This submission shows OHCHR’s emphasis on the importance of promoting and protecting women’s human rights and gender equality in all climate action, including at the UNFCCC.  

This submission draws on findings and conclusions of the Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to the thirty-second session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), Analytical study on the relationship between climate change and the human right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, 6 May 2016, A/HRC/32/23.

This analytical document presents that OHCHR organized a panel discussion on the impacts of climate change on the right to health during the 31st Session of the Human Rights Council. The panel discussion was moderated by H.E. Mr. Trung Thanh Nguyen, Permanent Representative of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. The concept note for the discussion and statements of the participants are available below as well as a summary report of the discussion.

This toolkit aims to introduce the topic of climate change and adaptation in eight activity-based and interactive units to primary school teachers and students in Grenada. The Grenadian-German Programme “Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies” (ICCAS) introduced the toolkit to 49 primary schools in the small island state and is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

The toolkit consists of a teacher manual, a worksheet collection, student passports, stickers and posters. Grenadian illustrator Stacey Byer developed child-friendly images for each unit. To date, 400 posters and 900 student passports including sticker sets were delivered to primary schools.

This brief gives an overview of Resilience Pathways Model (RPM), which is a tool designed to help countries integrate resilience planning across multiple sectors of their hard and soft infrastructure. The model also provides a framework to advise and provide strategic guidance on delivering against the key global policy frameworks in an integrated and cohesive way.

This guidance document aims to provide an expanded understanding of the UNOPS Resilience Pathways Model (RPM) as it applies within the development and humanitarian contexts. While the issue of resilience is not new, the RPM represents a unique approach to addressing resilience within the context of all major global frameworks and in particular the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

This brief shows that the effects of climate change are increasingly apparent in many Sahel countries. Relief efforts during crises and in response to everyday deprivation have been largely led by outside actors. However, many Sahel governments have now adopted national strategies for social protection, providing new opportunity for them to establish basic guarantees and incorporate lessons from neighbouring countries on addressing climate-related risks.

This brief shows that in China, there are big efforts to combat deforestation, with logging and other restrictions placed on large swaths of land. Nearly a million workers in state-owned forest enterprises lost their jobs at the turn of the century, but got help with job training and placement services. Other rural residents received cash to perform conservation activities, and the country was able to reforest nearly 27 million hectares of former farmland and deforested areas.

This brief presents that in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines’ Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (DILEEP) provided emergency employment opportunities to affected populations, and affiliated participants to several social insurance schemes. Nearly 80,000 programme participants received immediate relief after the typhoon struck in 2013, and were enrolled in the national health and employment injury insurance schemes.

This brief presents that in Egypt, spending on fuel subsidies was a drain on public finances with benefits skewing toward the rich and exacerbating inequalities. The document also shows that subsidies were reduced to balance the budget and target wasteful consumption and emissions. 

This brief shows that Brazil’s invaluable rainforests have dwindled in recent decades, as agriculture and other development have moved in. The document suggests that development opportunities are crucial for many rural populations who continue to live in poverty, and the Government is attempting to address poverty and threats to the environment together through a new social protection programme.

This brochure gives an overview of ILO activities in facilitating the transition to a greener economy and creation of more green jobs. The document shows that ILO promotes skills for green jobs through the publication of policy documents, development tools and guides, research work, as well as capacity building activities. It works on the global and local levels. 

This guidance document summarizes all COP guidance dating from the first COP to COP 21 and the corresponding GEF responses. The goal of this publication is to provide full documentation of the evolution of GEF activities and policies as informed by guidance from the COP. 

This guidance document presents that making our societies and economies more sustainable and less inequitable is not just to avoid disaster, but to build lasting prosperity.  The document also suggests that it is urgent to bring about transformations in key economic systems, from energy, cities and food to the “take-make-waste” economy, and leverage evidence and new information technology, political leadership, coalitions for change and innovation.

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 document is addressed primarily to decision-makers and stakeholders in the Global South engaged in developing national climate change policies. Such policies in the present context are high-level documents that set forth in a consolidated manner a country’s approach both to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change. This document seeks to help those teams how to deal with climate change in urban areas, and to empower local authorities as key actors in that effort.

This technical document discusses how observed and projected impacts of climate change have implications for the enjoyment of human rights and for the obligations of States under international human rights law.