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This newsletter discusses how cities were adressed at the UN Secretary General Climate SUmmit (2014) and discusses the development of several projects linking clities and climate change.

This policy document is addressed primarily to decision-makers and stakeholders in the Global South engaged in developing national climate change policies. It seeks to help those teams to address a relatively narrow topic in the context of those policies: how their countries should deal with climate change in urban areas, and to empower local authorities as key actors in that effort.

This analytical report argues that strategic investment in physical infrastructure with the diversification of economies allows cities to play a specialized role in polycentric urban development. Furthermore, it suggests that green economic development can be achieved through the development of green clusters and green jobs.

This analytical report explores the compact city and its benefits within the developed and developing world’s contexts. The guide illustrates how the compact city concept and planned urban extension can support sustainable urban patterns that benefit the functioning of developed as well as developing world cities.

This analytical report proposes that cities can act as agents for change that allow their large populations to live less wastefully. It considers how infrastructure systems can be viewed as an opportunity to shift cities onto a more sustainable path by paying close attention to the resources that pass through them, and the manner in which they support the activities of the city.

This analytical report focuses on the effect of unplanned, rapid growth of cities on the functioning of a city-region’s natural systems. It outlines how guided development can maximise the ability of ecosystems to support sustainable human and natural processes.

This activity report documents a study carried out in 2013 on children and climate change in Zimbabwe. The aim of the study was to assess the vulnerabilities of children in Zimbabwe and to identify which of these vulnerabilities will be magnified by the impacts of climate change.

This policy document highlights the threats climate change impacts on the food system pose to children, particularly those in low income countries, and recommends measures to ensure that children are protected from such impacts.

This analytical collates perspectives of young people from all over the world, gathered from five years of UNICEF research at international, national and regional level, accompanied by key statistics and analysis of the current and expected impacts of climate change on children.

This brochure outlines how child-friendly education is a means by which children and adolescents can develop the capacity and skills needed to withstand projected climate shocks and natural disasters.

This technical document aims at “demystifying” gender mainstreaming and providing practical guidance on how to systematically  address existing or potential gender inequalities specific to UNIDO’s energy and climate change interventions.

This brochure introduces some of the key elements and issues related to the sustainable industrial development new vision, as enshrined in UNIDO’s landmark Lima Declaration adopted by the Organization’s Member States on 2 December 2013. It will shape the future operations, spirit and direction of UNIDO for many years to come.

This collection of Fact Sheets focuses on the work undertaken by UNIDO, in its capacity as Implementing Agency of the Montreal Protocol, to phase-out ozone depleting substances which also are high global warming potential gases, by introducing alternatives with zero ozone-depleting potential and low global warming potential.

This brief is part of UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office’s series on the links between climate change, gender, and a number of development issues including women’s economic empowerment, health, food security, and energy.

This brief is part of UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office’s series on the links between climate change, gender, and a number of development issues including women’s economic empowerment, health, food security, and energy.

This publication some of the work of the UNIDO-GEF partnership on entrepreneurial innovation. UNIDO-GEF with their international networks and resources are partnering to create an innovative, global program supporting small- and medium sized enterprises by leveraging the Cleantech Open’s global platform.

This publication presents the approach of the Energy and Climate Change Branch of UNIDO. It coordinates the Global Network of Regional Sustainable Energy Centres in cooperation with regional economic communities and organizations. The expanding south-south multi-stakeholder partnership comprises various Centres in Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific and other regions. The Centres respond to the urgent need for increased regional cooperation and capacities to mitigate existing barriers to renewable energy and energy efficiency investment and markets.

This activity report presents the scope of the collaboration between the GEF and UNIDO. UNIDO strives to link its GEF projects with the Organization’s two ISID priorities – creating shared prosperity and safeguarding the environment – where its GEF-funded initiatives have the potential of positive synergetic effects in the pursuit of the overall objectives of inclusive and sustainable industrial development.

This analytical report aims to highlight the work done thus far by the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit and its partners, further raise awareness of the devastation that an environmental emergency can cause, and promote advocacy and action in response. It also aims to highlight the strong need to integrate humanitarian and environmental action.

This technical document has for main objective to share relevant experiences in the refrigeration, air conditioning and foam sectors in which low-GWP technologies are employed, especially natural refrigerants and foam-blowing agents.