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This policy document provides the information that countries need to inform their broader climate change and sustainable economic development objectives. This paper is based on results from a questionnaire sent to all Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB) countries, follow-up discussions, and in-person country visits. Seventeen of the 25 countries under the Programme submitted questionnaire responses, covering all geographic regions. It also focuses on four case studies : Chile, Costa Rica, Lebanon and Philippines. 

This policy document aims at analyzing Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) requirements for a bus rapid transportation in Jakarta. The main objective of the Bus Rapid Transport Development in Greater Jakarta is to reduce traffic congestion, increase energy efficiency in transport, improve urban air quality, and reduce GHG emissions from urban transport. Available data of the existing corridors are analysed through a cost benefit analysis. 

Este documento de política busca brindar a los actores (gobiernos, academia, organizaciones civiles, organismos internacionales y analistas) información sobre metodologías y herramientas para llevar a cabo el Análisis del Gasto Público e Institucionalidad para el Clima (CPEIR) 

This policy document presents the Green Growth Development Strategy of Uganda. It focuses on five core areas: agriculture, natural capital management, green cities (urban development), transport and energy. Outcomes envisaged incude income and livelihoods enhancement; decent green jobs; climate change adaptation and mitigation; sustainable environment and natural resources management; food and nutrition security; resource use efficiency; and social inclusiveness and economic transformation. 

This policy document adresses Lebanon’s contributions to climate change mitigation under the UNFCCC. The report gives an overview of sustainable energy in Lebanon, includes a modelling analysis and identifies investment targets and risks in the private sector.

This activity report connects different stories which underline the work UNDP and GEF have realized so far to protect the health of the planet. Spanning all 25 years of UNDP’s partnership with the GEF, the storytellers include people from all walks of life, including subsistence farmers, civil society leaders, captains of industry and government ministers. The topics of their stories vary also widely, ranging from increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate-induced risks, to ridge-to-reef approaches to conserving threatened species.

This policy document presents the first balance-sheet of The Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, launched at COP22. It reveals that climate action is indeed increasing, eventhough the pace and scale of action may not be sufficient to close the gap between what Parties have pledged in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and what is required to meet the goals for adaptation that are laid down in the Paris Agreement. Various data and recommendations about climate action are provided.

This policy document is intended to be an “entry point” for advice and information on financing climate change mitigation agenda. The report includes some of the most widely-used financial instruments as well as innovative finance mechanisms and looks at their pros and cons.

This analytical document aims at understanding the economic costs and benefits of climate change at the micro and sectoral levels in Sri Lanka. Detailed data capture show the potential vulnerabilities smallholder farmers face. It also includes an adaptation strategy and recommendations for policymakers. 

This analytical document aims at understanding the economic costs and benefits of climate change at the micro and sectoral levels in Mongolia. Detailed data capture show the potential vulnerabilities these households face but are also used to propose a more optimal adaptation strategy.  

The report is structured as follows. The first three chapters provide a brief description of Mongolia, presenting the geography of the country and the agro-ecological zones with a focus on potential vulnerabilities and gains as a result of climate change. Chapter ‘The role of agriculture and the situation analysis of the sector’ provides summary statistics and information on the data that were collected specifically for the study on the vulnerability of livestock to climate change in Mongolia. In chapter ‘Empirical Results’, the econometric model used to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture is presented, including initial results that are likely to influence adaptation among livestock herders. Finally, the last chapter presents policy recommendations to policymakers and conclusions.

Ce document analytique cherche à appréhender le rôle de l’UNESCO dans la prévention des risques climatiques et des catastrophes naturelles à l’ échelle mondiale, ou plutôt dans la “promotion d’une culture mondiale de mitigation des risques et de préparation aux catastrophes.” Après avoir défini les cinq actions prioritaires de Hyogo, le rapport analyse de manière quantitative et qualitative le poids des catastrophes, puis souligne le rôle crucial de l’éducation des populations, de l’information et de la formation aux techniques de prévention et de réaction.

This analytical report identifies the elements that prevent and that enable the inclusion of women in REDD+ in the Philippines. It shows that taking into account gender issues is required to better address women’s inclusion in climate change – and thus to address dissimination of climate change knowledge on a broader plane. The Philippines was chosen as one of three countries for specific studies based on its progress in addressing gender issues and early experiences with REDD+. 

This analytial report provides an overview of the forest and land use situation in Sri Lanka where forests have declined rapidly over the past several decades and where indigenous people -known as the Veddha-have been largely alienated from forest lands that they traditionally managed.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the tenure considerations related to potential PAMs in order to identify the risks (conflicts, political divisions, involuntary resettlement cases to be dealt with, loss of tenure rights with negative livelihood implications) and benefits (carbon sequestration, better informed and equipped officers better able to perform their duties, more sustainable and productive land use, better recognition of tenure rights in development planning, etc) associated with each one.

This analytical document seeks to provide a common basis for ongoing policy discussions in the land and forest sectors. Its goal is thus to find a middle ground between overly simplistic descriptions of tenure security, such as those based only on formal status, and the widely held but difficult-to-use acknowledgment that “it’s complicated.” This review describes seven sets of processes that influence this context, and therefore shape land and forest tenure in contemporary Laos. These include:

1. Macro-scale forest management,
2. Village-scale zoning and land-use planning,
3. Large-scale investment and infrastructure,
4. Individual land titling,
5. Smallholder cash cropping and contract farming,
6. Community-oriented forestry including but not limited to REDD+, and
7. Community-scale land titling and other forms of tenure recognition.

This assessment report provides a comprehensive review of Malawi’s tenure regime in the context of developing the country’s national REDD+ program. The document includes information on the historical context, legal and policy framework, sources of land tenure insecurity, gender issues, and other cross-cutting governance challenges. While the existing legal and policy frameworks support strong tenure rights as a facet of community-based management, their implementation has been hindered by a number of factors, including the lack of a clear legal basis for defining forest tenure rights under various forms of management. In order to support effective and sustainable planning, the analysis intends to clarify the role of various institutional players (including traditional leaders) in the Forestry and/or the Land Acts. A set of recommendations for next steps is included in the conclusion. 

This guidance document purpose is to serve as a reference to improve the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests with the overarching goal of achieving food security for all and to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security. Indeed,  tenure systems increasingly face stress as the world’s growing population requires food security, and as environmental degradation and climate change reduce the availability of land, fisheries and forests. 

This policy document on forest tenure and the rights of indigenous peoples, to be implemented by the UN-REDD Programme in the period 2018–2020, aims at raising global knowledge to sustain country action in support of land and forest tenure governance and the promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of REDD+ implementation. The Technical Description section offers further details on the work, intended deliverables, focuses and priorities. 

This activity report presents the results of the UN-REDD Programme between January and December 2017, in the context of key cumulative achievements since the Programme’s launch in 2008. It shows that technical assistance and National Programmes were increasingly targeted towards REDD+. Plus it explains how and why funds were leveraged into other projects and partnerships, including the Green Climate Fund.

This guidance report analyses the direct drivers of deforestation and takes into account the environmental, economic and social aspirations in Côte d’Ivoire. The paper is declined into eight policy options that would enable to treat all drivers of deforestation and degradation of forests in Côte d’Ivoire, as part of the National Strategy -one of the four structuring elements that was agreed upon at the international level as a prerequisite for the implementation of REDD+-. Omong others, it investigates for example the impacts of a “Zero Deforestation Agriculture in public-private partnership” and a “Sustainable Domestic Energy Strategy with value-creation of the agricultural biomass”. 

This analytical report presents a summary of methodological tools for the assessment of climate impacts on surface hydrology in the Peruvian Andes. The importance of analyzing the potential climate impacts on hydrology in Peru arises in part from concerns about the retreat of tropical glaciers, the drying of unique Andean wetland ecosystems, as well as increased weather variability and weather extremes, all of which will affect water regulation.

The study is intended to inform plans for energy development in Peru and enable the consideration of the consequences of climate change for such development. It provides some insights into how hydrology may behave under future climate scenarios in Peru.