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This analytical document presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare losses due to floods.

This guidance document explores the costs of meeting adaptation needs and assesses the funding that is available for meeting those needs. The report suggests that although international public funding for adaptation has increased in recent years, the previous assessments of the costs of adaptation have involved significant underestimates. This leaves a gap – the adaptation finance gap – which is needed to be filled in order to achieve the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.

This infographic provides an overview of the role of peatlands for climate change adaptation and mitigation. It also presents key actions and strategies for responsible peatland management that maintain peatland ecosystem services while sustaining and improving livelihoods.

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This guidance report provides evidence for three types of benefits – or dividends of resilience – that disaster risk management (DRM) investments can yield: (i) Avoiding losses when disasters strike; (ii) Stimulating economic activity thanks to reduced disaster risk; and (iii) Development co-benefits, or uses, of a specific DRM investment. While the first dividend is the most common motivation for investing in resilience, the second and third dividend are typically overlooked. The report argues that any evaluation of the benefits of DRM investments is incomplete without a full account of all three dividends of resilience.

The technical document aims to provide specific guidance for policy makers and IT developers on all aspects of designing and developing greenhouse gas (GHG) data management systems that support industry reporting programs.

Drawing on lessons learned from a number of jurisdictions – including Australia, California, Chile, China, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, the UK, and the US – the report highlights the legal, institutional, and technical considerations associated with designing and developing such systems, and describes a step-by-step process for determining their functional and technical requirements.

This guidance document provides an overview of the historic development and current state of China’s South-South cooperation on mitigating and adapting to climate change. Based on the findings of a global survey and interviews, it considers and analyzes the experiences, needs and priorities of China’s partner countries and how China could support other developing countries in the future.

This guidance document traces the evolution of the ‘networked solution’ to finance that came together at the COP21 in Paris, linking the formal negotiations with a broader set of actions by financial regulators, by financial institutions and also by civil society. It explores the creative dynamic between France’s efforts to stimulate action within its own domestic financial system, and the international steps harnessing the financial system for climate security. It closes with reflections on how this new approach can be deepened in the year ahead. 

This activity report explores the inclusive green economy learning which was discussed at the 1st Global Forum on Green Economy Learning. This forum took place from 16-18 December 2015 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. In this event, more than 100 individuals from over 60 institutions came together to discuss global and national approaches to green economy learning and identify opportunities to exchange knowledge and collaborate with the goal of up-scaling green economy learning.

This technical document explains the rationale for an emission trading system (ETS) and sets out a 10-step process for designing an ETS – each step involves a series of decisions or actions that will shape major features of the policy. In doing so, the document draws both on conceptual analysis and on some of the most important practical lessons learned to date from implementing ETSs around the world, including from the European Union, several provinces and cities in China, California and Québec, the Northeastern United States, Alberta, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, Tokyo, and Saitama.

This analytical document shows that Uganda’s GET FiT Solar Facility will provide a performance-based subsidy of USc 5.37/kWh to lower the cost to Ugandan consumers of the electricity produced from four 5 MW solar plants bid by two developers at an average price of USc 16.37/kWh. This document also analyzes the bidding process and the lessons learned, for possible replication in other developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This guidance document presents that premature death and disease can be prevented through healthier environments. This report covers more than 100 diseases and injuries by analysing the latest data on the environment-disease nexus and the devastating impact of environmental hazards and risks on global health, together with expert opinions. 

This policy document has been prepared to support the Subsidiary Body for Implementation in its annual monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the framework for capacitybuilding in developing countries in accordance with decisions 2/CP.7 and 29/CMP.1. The report draws on information synthesized from national communications, biennial update reports, biennial reports, the 2015 annual report of the Executive Board of the clean development mechanism to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 annual report of the Nairobi Framework Partnership.

This policy document aims to inform discussions during the 5th meeting of the Durban Forum for in-depth discussion on capacity-building. The report compiles and synthesizes information on capacity-building contained in reports published by relevant bodies established under the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol and by the operating entities of the Financial Mechanism and the Adaptation Fund Board from the 4th meeting of the Durban Forum to the end of December 2015. 

This guidance document shows that modern district energy as the most effective approach for many cities to transition to sustainable heating and cooling, by improving energy efficiency and enabling higher shares of renewables. 

This guidance document provides an overview of the current challenges to financing and the solutions needed. The report also highlights the critical steps required to accelerate and scale up financing, accumulate more data on climate-related finance flows to cities, and the innovative tools and instruments that can be replicated and scaled.

This guidance dodocument proposes recommendations on how to close the gap between education and action on climate change. The document states that effective policy related to climate change education requires not only a commitment to teach and learn but a commitment to act. 

This guidance document aims to promote uncertainty quantification, because quantifying uncertainty has the potential to foster more robust climate-change mitigation plans. To this end, the report also summarises the rationale for quantifying uncertainty in greenhouse-gas emission scenario projections.

This guidance document shows a snapshot of recent or ongoing initiatives to protect children from the danger of climate change around the world. The document highlights the increasing threats that children face as a result of climate change, including emergencies resulting from climate-related disasters, and Unicef’s work to increase communities’ resilience and safeguard children’s rights in these contexts.

This guidance document presents that the challenge of food security in Africa will intensify in the coming decades. Climate change will further exacerbate the risks facing agriculture in Africa, which is dominated by small farms with few assets and limited capacities to adapt.

This guidance document presents that climate change adds to the urgency of sustainable urban planning and management and to the a broad set of challenges for many city governments revolving around providing jobs, services and housing to growing urban populations.