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The Ship Emissions Toolkit provides a structured framework as well as decision support tools for evaluating
emissions reduction opportunities in maritime transport. It offers guidance to rapid assessment of ship emissions in the national context: offers guidance for conducting a rapid assessment and generating both quantitative and qualitative information about a country’s maritime emissions status at the time of analysis.

This guidance document aims to raise awareness on the importance of river basin management and transboundary cooperation in Disaster Risk Reduction, while taking into account climate change adaptation. The document offers specific advice on the steps suggested to implement a feasible and people-centered approach in accordance with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

This guidance document is intended to highligh experts to assess the GHG inventory and inventory development process. It presents metologies and tools to achieve higher quality reporting and enhanced capacity of national experts involved in the process of the preparation and facilitation of the Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC).

This guidance document explores ways to enhance clarity, reduce risks, and realize the opportunities that sustainable infrastructure supports inclusive growth and productivity, enhancing coverage and quality of services embodied in the SDGs, and accelerating the transition to low carbon growth and climate resilient economies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The framework presents four main principles of sustainability covering economic and financial, environmental, social, and institutional dimensions. 

This pocket book aims to be a supporting tool for a better understanding and application of the language in the UNFCCC negotiations. In the context of the climate change negotiations, the great amount of acronyms, buzzwords and legal terms can be complex, overwhelming and misleading too.

This guidance document aims to help address this challenge by providing the missing identification and evaluation assistance that those looking for adaptation solutions initially face. More specifically, it focuses on adaptation technologies for building resilience to climate change induced hazards in the water sector. It provides a simple and comprehensive overview of specific water technologies and techniques that address challenges resulting from climate change and help to build adaptive capacity. 

This guidance document addresses what a sustainable bank looks, by opting for a hands-on, practitioner-oriented format to prioritise action over theory. Banking supervisors and regulators have demonstrated growing awareness of the materiality of sustainability issues, as shown by the establishment of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. 

This guidance document provides a conceptual analysis and important practical lessons learned from implementing carbon taxes around the world. Recent years have seen renewed and growing interest in carbon taxes that put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This resurgence in interest has come as over three-quarters of the world have developed Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement and are looking for cost-effective ways to achieve these emission reduction goals. 

This guidance document explains the reason that schools should take on a whole-school approach to climate action and provides six guidelines that suggest how to concretely include climate action in school governance, teaching and learning, campus and facility management, and partnerships with the community. The guidelines and examples are based on a survey looking at climate action projects at 55 schools in 12 countries of UNESCO’s Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet). 

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.