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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.

This guidance document provides recommendations to policymakers in five areas: policy development; government and resources; curriculum development; capacity building of teachers and education planners; and public awareness, communication and stakeholder involvement, based on the case studies, as well as brief profiles of climate change and education in 16 countries’ sustainable development policy processes.

This activity report present a project for a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) in Namibia which aims to support Namibia in achieving the goal defined in the Off-Grid Energisation Master Plan (OGEMP), namely to provide access to appropriate energy technologies to everyone living or working in off-grid areas. The NAMA aims at giving access to electricity for regions, households and companies which are currently without access to electricity, as well as improving the share of renewable energies (mainly using solar energy). The NAMA will reduce GHG emissions through the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energies and will provide the conditions for income generation and new business opportunities. This will also lead to enhanced private sector involvement. Finally, the NAMA aims to achieve additional sustainable development benefits, such as improved livelihoods for the poor.

This technical document discusses technical aspects on how to construct a Forest Reference Emission Level/Forest Reference Level (FREL/FRL) in line with UNFCCC guidance. It reiterates relevant UNFCCC decisions and provides a structural overview of elements a country needs to consider when constructing a FREL/FRL for REDD+ under the UNFCCC.

This analytical document assesses how deforestation affects the economy of the United Republic of Tanzania, both by looking at the limited ecosystem goods and services currently reflected in GDP and by looking at the effects on the economy if the full suite of forest ecosystem services are taken into account.

This analytical document is based on the responses to a comprehensive questionnaire to assess the current status of health-relevant climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. A total of 22 European Member States answered the questions focusing on eight thematic areas or topics: governance, vulnerability, impact and adaptation assessments, national and subnational adaptation strategies, climate-change mitigation, strengthening of health systems, awareness raising and capacity building, green health services and sharing best practices.

This analytical document investigates whether cash transfers enable households facing weather and other negative shocks to avoid coping strategies that lead to poverty traps.

This manual is intended to serve as a guide for conducting measurements for estimation of carbon stocks in afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism. The manual brings together comprehensive guidance on forest inventory designs and field measurement procedures.

This analytical report analyses disaster risk management and shows that sustainable development cannot be achieved without reducing disaster risk. The report estimates that economic losses from disasters can amount to US$250-300 billion each year. The report also estimates that an annual investment of US$6 billion in disaster risk management would generate US$360 billion over the next 15 years through avoided losses.

Please access here for the full report and fact sheets. 

This manual demonstrates, through contributions from leading authors, how environmental risk factors such as pollution, chemical contamination and climate change will bring diseases and death. It further emphasizes the importance of reducing environmental threats in order to improve human health. 

This technical document is directed towards exploring the extent to which African countries can contribute to closing the adaptation gap, in order to better understand the gap in the resources and the fact that international climate finance must be urgently raised, leveraged and deployed in service of Africa’s pressing adaptation needs. The analysis in this report points to a number of governance-related issues that can be classified under two main headings: continental and domestic. 

This technical document highlights how spatial analysis and land-use modelling can help in understanding the potential impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems services of policy options for achieving REDD+ objectives. The analyses in Brazil are used to illustrate the report’s main points.

This activity report highlights a way of assessing the skills and training needs for a country to design and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).  The 2015 edition focuses on “How Countries Can Identify the Gap” and introduces the skills assessment framework for NAPs.  The 2017 edition delves deeper into the skills assessment framework by explaining the individual skills identified and further introduces “A New and Interactive Methodology”.

This technical document aims to show economic and scientific research that explores the interactions between climate change, climate policies and development. It also aims to promote debate and broaden understanding of current and emerging questions about the climate-development nexus through evidence-based analysis. 

This Resource Guide for Advanced Learning provides a selection of learning resources on REDD+, mostly drawn from within the UN System. The guide is organized into two parts. Part I provides basic orientation for readers, including a brief introduction to the subject area and an outline of the specific learning topics covered. Part II lists available written learning resources as well as a number of training courses currently being offered, organized by learning topic. An Annex containing a list of non-UN learning resources concludes the Guide. This guide is part of a series of developed through UN CC:Learn to facilitate access to existing state-of-the-art materials relevant for climate change learning on particular topics.

This technical document aims to provide decision makers and technical advisers with insights into a broad range of spatial analyses. This analysis can contribute to identifying areas where synergies can be achieved for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity conservation.

This technical document provides examples showing how multiple benefits can be incorporated into spatial planning for REDD+ at the national level in the specific case of Vietnam. Mapping the potential for multiple benefits, such as biodiversity conservation value, can help in REDD+ planning, informing the selection of locations for REDD+ activities.

Vietnamese version available here.

This technical document presents selected results of spatial analysis to explore how spatial data can be used to inform where REDD+ could also help to meet the Philippines’ biodiversity conservation targets under the conversation on biological diversity.