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This guidance document assesses how soft commodity risk policies by banks and investors could potentially benefit countries to achieve reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) based on an analysis of risk policies from a range of financial institutions. To read the analytical report by UNEP, click here. 

This analytical document highlights policies that banks and investors can adopt to help reduce deforestation and forest degradation risks resulting from unsustainable practices across agricultural supply chains. There is a policy brief by UN-REDD as well. 

This analytical document presents objectives of the NAMA to support Cambodia´s energy efficiency policy, to improve efficiency in the industrial sector and to build capacity in the field of energy efficiency. The document states that the introduction of efficient sewing, washing, drying machines and compressors will improve energy efficiency in motor driven systems and will decrease greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of electricity.

This analytical document suggests that while the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been successful with mitigating the impacts of large-scale industrial projects, small-scale community-based projects, such as those in the waste management sector have been overlooked due to their low mitigation potential.
The document’s contents are based on discussions held at a side event ‘Quantifying and monetizing NAMA co-benefits,’ which took place on the margins of the Bonn Climate Change Conference on 7 June 2014.

This guidance document provides a framework for defining adaptation gaps and a preliminary assessment of the gap between adaptation needs and reality. It proposes an approach for identifying and assessing the current state and action in key adaptation areas, and comparing these with the potential now, and in the future, for additional adaptation to reduce risks. 

This guidance document presents the necessity to take drastic steps at all levels in order to properly address deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia. The document also shows the latest data from the Ministry of Forestry, which reveals that deforestation in Indonesia is still relatively high and on the increase.

This technical document shows substantial benefits of forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which also faces the issue of deforestation. The document recommends a least-cost but sufficient valuation process as a plan for pilot studies. The activities that would need to be undertaken to deliver this are laid out in the report, along with estimates of the required resources.

This guidance document helps countries strengthen their capacity for grievance resolution in order to respond to contentious issues, complaints and disputes. The document states that a national feedback and grievance redress mechanism needs to be effectively available, and if necessary strengthened, as part of the country’s REDD+ institutional arrangements.

This activity report covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2014. It is based on programmatic and financial information contained in reports from individual National Programmes and contributions from the FAO, UNDP, UNEP and the UN-REDD Programme Secretariat. 

This analytical document identifies and addresses key challenges concerning monitoring and evaluation for climate change adaptation. The document presents good practices and good practice principles on the development, selection, and use of indicators used in the monitoring and evaluation of adaptation interventions. 

This guidance document presents the 12 monthly bulletins in a single document, allowing readers to note and assess significant environmental events that took place in 2013. 

This analytical report presents a quantitative assessment of the total GHG emissions mitigation impact in 2020 of current non-state climate action. The document concentrates on those initiatives that have a potential to be large scale. 

This guidance document targets the preparation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) as countries revisit their contributions and develop implementation plans for transparent and actionable next steps. It draws on ideas shared in the 2014-2015 Regional Technical Dialogues on INDCs, taking into account feedback from an extensive review by countries and other organizations. 

This analytical document provides a holistic framework that will help The Gambia to shift towards low-emission energy access and power generation while ensuring a low-emission sustainable development pathway.

This activity report presents a framework of recommendations by the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China to establish a green financial system in China. 

This analytical document aims to reveal the patterns and the evolution of natural resource use in Asia and the Pacific region over the last 40 years. The analysis shows that resource use in the region is both inefficient and unsustainable. 

This analytical document is a review of the environmental conditions, the impacts of climate change and the status of national response to the changing situation in the country. This document also provides a general evaluation of the quality of the environment and emerging sustainable development trends in the country.

This guidance document focuses on private sector providers of capital as well as the intermediaries such as banks and asset managers. Together these investors and financial institutions manage the pensions and savings of individual citizens.

This guidance document is designed as guidance for policymakers and practitioners to mainstream pro-poor environment and climate concerns into planning, budgeting and monitoring. The document provides guidance and concrete examples in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

The report quantifies the impact of climatic variability on health in Bangladesh. It uses a combined data set that integrates geographically-referenced national health surveys with local weather stations located across the entire country over a 30-year period. The uniquely rich data source – combining health, a wide range of socio-environmental information with local climate conditions- as well as its large spatial and temporal scale, make it possible to address limitations in current research in the area of health and climate linkages. The findings are broadly in line with evidence from epidemiological studies that focus on the effect of climate conditions on both the transmission cycle and the incidence of disease. They confirm that the incidence of illnesses is strongly associated with sharp changes in temperature and precipitation between seasons. The study also looks at the institutional readiness and geographical targeting of health and other developmental institutional interventions to deal with climate induced health risks.