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This policy document explores ways of aligning government subsidies and other fiscal instruments with the objectives of REDD+, which aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. 

This activity report provides updates on key results of its REDD+ partner countries in 2014. 

This activity report outlines UNESCO’s contributions to rethinking sustainability globally, which include a wide range of projects. Grouped under five main themes covered by our mandate, the document reflect the multifaceted nature of climate challenges and associated mitigation and adaptation solutions

This technical document explains Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), which occur in nearly all aquatic environments and can cause harm to aquatic ecosystems, including plants and animals, and to humans via direct exposure to water-borne toxins or by toxic seafood consumption. This document investigates the causes, impacts and mitigation options, including management issues associated with harmful algal events and their impacts on ecosystems and society. 

This visual resource presents complex scientific information on ocean acidification in a clear and understandable. It provides an important reference point for scientists, policy-makers and anyone else interested in understanding how ocean acidification affects our oceans and the vital services they provide. 

This visual resource highlights the key messages coming out of the high level events, round tables and workshops organized at UNESCO on 8 June 2015, to celebrate the World Oceans Day. The messages are the result of a comprehensive and interactive day-long discussion between Heads of State, decision-makers, scientists, youth, and representatives of civil society and the private sector. 

This analytical document shows that the past year brought a rebound of green energy investments worldwide with a surge of a solid 17% to $270 Billion. Brushing aside the challenge of sharply lower crude oil prices this sudden increase reveresed the investment dip of the past two years and was mainly driven by investments in solar and wind energy.

This guidance document defines challenges such as poverty and climate change and presents the associated opportunities that can be seized to prevent unsustainable development of Africa’s mountain ecosystems. Through use and integration of local and indigenous knowledge, supporting green investments and addressing the multidimensional nature of poverty and food security, these challenges can be surmounted.

This activity report provides the story of the environment and the organization’s work in 2014, through stunning photography and inspirational stories of change from the ground. 

Ce document politique fait l’évaluation de l’industrie verte au Burkina Faso et montre qu’elle reste dans son ensemble embryonnaire : plutôt intensive en main d’œuvre et très peu intensive en technologie. L’étude dresse des recommandations pour une transition réussie vers la résilience aux changements climatiques et vers l’industrie verte. 

This guidance document is a summary of four detailed studies providing new insights on how to promote efficiency in selected priority areas. The report combines energy modelling with a survey of 25 national programmes, to provide an overview of the various benefits associated with improvements in energy efficiency. It is the first study providing comparable country- and sector-specific forecasts of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and macro-economic variables for most G20 countries.

This guidance document aims to present health systems and public health programming to increase their capacity for protecting health in an unstable and changing climate. The document states that by implementing the 10 key components laid out in the framework, health organizations, authorities and programmes would be better able to anticipate, prevent, prepare for and manage climate-related health risks. 

This guidance document reviews a range of strategies and policies for action covering sectors such as urban planning, transport, household energy and building design, food production and consumption, power generation, industry, and waste management. 

This activity report provides an overview of the characteristics and main activities of the projects that are being implemented as part of the second project portfolio of the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. This document consists of 22 projects that are currently implemented in 33 countries across Africa, Asia, Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean. 

This visual resource gives an overview of climate change and food security, highlighting FAO’s mandate to achieve food and nutrition security for all. 

This guidance document features 12 case studies that illustrate that adaptation and poverty reduction are inherently linked and must be addressed simultaneously. The document particularly stresses the importance of capacity building, empowered communities, private sector engagement and support to the development of institutions and policies.

This guidance document has been developed for practitioners in both National Meteorological Services (NMHSs) and National Health Services (NHSs) to outline the issues surrounding the general heat–health problem and present how an understanding of the biometeorology, epidemiology, public-health and risk-communication aspects of heat as a hazard can be used to inform the development of an Heat–Health Warning Systems as part of a wider Heat-Health Action Plan.

This technical document aims to enhance understandings of the El Niño phenomenon using FAO’s Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS). The document presents the result of FAO’s monitoring of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, among other weather-related hazards, with a special focus on the potential impacts on the agricultural sector. 

This activity report summarizes the findings of a jointworkshop held at FAO Headquarters on 13-14 November 2014. It provides information on access and use of FAO data and analysis tools for Agriculture, Forestry, and other Land Use (AFOLU), in support of national reporting processes under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report also highlights country needs for new data and guidance for monitoring, reporting and verification of emerging activities in agriculture, forestry and land use, aimed at combating climate change in coming decades.

This policy instrument collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes the significant consequences of climate change impacts on food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and global food trade.