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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.

This report presents the partnerships UNIDO has made over the years. In planning how to turn ideas into practical programmes, UNIDO needed to take account of new trends in industry and business itself. It was clear that globalization of production, trade, technology and finance had made manufacturing more international, making it harder for developing countries to compete. Thus engaging in partnerships is critical.

This compedium provides a compilation of the world’s baseline data on small hydropower from 152 countries, territories and regions.

This analytical report includes a study commissioned by the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit. This is the first stage of a larger project that seeks to examine the current state of integration of environmental considerations in humanitarian operations and to recommend collective action to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and sustainability of humanitarian action. It examines some of the achievements to date and proposes how the future agenda might be defined.

This technical document provides methodological and organizational guidance to countries interested in taking a strategic approach to climate change learning and skills development. In particular, it lays out the process of developing a National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development – or short “National Climate Change Learning Strategy” – through cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration, and with engagement of national education and training institutions.

This analytical report summarises some of the key highlights and achievements of the UN-REDD Programme over its first five years, building on its efforts from supporting nine initial countries to 51 partner countries.  The UN-REDD Programme support has ranged from capacity building, to designing national strategies to developing financing approaches and institutional arrangements needed to monitor and verify reductions in deforestation and degradation more effectively.

This activity report presents the results of the Climate Summit Forests Pavilion, a symposium of over 400 key actors in the forests space, held in conjunction with the UN Climate Summit, 23 September 2014.

This analytical report highlights that the effect of climate change is already straining the disaster relief system and the threat of extreme climatic events in the future is likely to generate higher demands for disaster assistance that will prove more costly. Tackling the threat of climate change in risk-prone areas will need a system-wide shift in attention to strengthen disaster risk management, risk reduction and preparedness for an effective response.

This report presents the results of the formal Forests action area plenary at the Secretary-General’s Climate Summit, 23 September 2014.

This policy document aims to ensure that the health sector works with partners in the environment and other related communities to engage in the overall NAP process at the national level, identify national strategic goals for building health resilience to climate change, and develop a national plan with prioritized activities to achieve these goals.

The activity report presents the conclusions of the Health and Disaster Risk Reduction within the Global Framework for Climate Services meeting. This meeting was organized by WMO and WHO, the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and UNISDR, to extend partnerships and to develop recommendations for the implementation of the GFCS-UIP to address the needs of these communities of practice.