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This guidance document presents that droughts, violent storms, sea-level rise and other changes are destabilizing critical ecosystems, undermining economic activity and jeopardizing livelihoods across the globe. The document also suggests that urgent actions are needed to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, invest in adaptation and build resilience to the growing impacts of our rapidly warming world.

This activity report lays out the new programming strategy for the July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2018 period. Building on the Green Environmental Facility’s (GEF) solid experience in financing climate change adaptation, the Strategy presents the programming priorities for the next four years.

This guidance document presents at how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected by climate change as well as what concrete steps need to be taken to protect them. The document states that today’s children, and their children, are the ones who will live with the consequences of climate change.

This guidance document provides information and suggestions concerning a partnership between countries interested in and committed to greening their economy and the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE). It serves as a resource for national governments and institutions undertaking PAGE-supported analysis and policy reforms, as well as international partners engaged in PAGE and green economy action. 

This guidance document is part of a series of learning briefs, which draw experiences and lessons learned from working on ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) within the global Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in Mountain Ecosystems Programme from 2011 to 2015. 

The first brief provides an introduction to Ecosystem-based Adaptation.

The second brief makes the case for EbA by presenting how it can generate multiple environmental, social and economic benefits. 

The third brief highlights how cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can be used to make the economic case for EbA.

The forth brief highlights how the Mountain EbA Programme has made the case for the policy changes that will need to happen at community, district, regional, national and global levels to bring about this shift in scale.

This guidance document aims to distinguish green bonds from other traditional financial instruments. The document will also provide insight into the potential of green bonds to mobilize new sources of climate finance.

This guidance document aims to guide policy makers on how to promote gender equality across all levels of policy and programming in climate change, and to provide them with the necessary tools to do so.

This activity report outlines UNDP’s decades-long support to partner countries to tackle climate change with a mix of infographics and country case examples.

This guidance document examines the forest model, which simulates how ecological processes including succession, seed dispersal, disturbances, and climate change affect a forested landscape over time.

This analytical document presents the institutional context for managing climate risks and adaptation and reiterates the need to strengthen the collection and analysis of data and information. The report also provides comprehensive typology of coping and adaptation strategies for managing current climate risks and building the necessary knowledge and good practices for advancing adaptation over the longer term. 

This analytical document examines the policy environment for climate change in Agriculture in Tanzania, including their development vision and national climate change strategy. It concludes that the government has engaged in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and that efforts by the government to modernize agriculture are underway through policy reforms and support from the private sector.

This guidance document aims to promote the use of genetic resources for food and agriculture in climate change adaptation and support their integration into national climate change adaptation planning. The report takes account of the characteristics of different genetic resources for food and agriculture which face different challenges and opportunities in respect to climate change.

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 educate children and young people about the vital role the climate plays in supporting life on Earth. The badge looks at how our daily lives impact the Earth’s climate and provides ideas on how individuals can take action to help make this close relationship more sustainable.

This guidance document shows food security risks in the Middle East and North Africa from climate change, as well as other vulnerability interactions, such as with population growth, urbanisation, and conflict. 

This guidance document explains that mountain soils are particularly susceptible to climate change, deforestation, unsustainable farming practices and resource extraction methods that affect their fertility and trigger land degradation, desertification and disasters such as floods and landslides. 

This analytical document presents the outcome of a two-year project in Kenya and offers the findings from an integrated climate impact assessment. The analysis covered (i) historical and future links between climate parameters and tea yields, (ii) a carbon life cycle analysis, (iii) tea management scenarios under climate change using aquacrop model, and (iv) a socio-economic analysis of small holder tea farms and households and their coping options under climate change. 

This guidance document suggests that to change behaviour, ‘environmental education’ needs to change its focus – with less emphasis on knowledge and raising awareness and more on competency, action skills and problem solving. 

This guidance document provides an overview of global food loss and waste, carbon footprint of global food wastage, carbon footprint intensities and food wastage reduction scenario and climate change mitigation. 

This guidance document contains key messages from the International Conference on the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation Options in the Forest Sector, organized by FAO and held online in February 2015. It summarizes key points from 51 technical presentations and panel and plenary discussions of 6 thematic sessions: afforestation and reforestation, reduced deforestation and degradation, changing forest management practices, wood energy, green building and sustainable packaging.