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This analytical document explains how a shift in technology and investment can reduce emissions, while creating huge social, economic and environmental opportunities. It also shows the trends in current global emissions, future scenarios and policy discussions. 

This analytical document is providing lessons on how indigenous people and their representing institutions can create enabling environments to secure their access to collective rights over ancestral territories, improve the sustainable management of indigenous lands, regulate the community use of natural resources and reduce conflicts over lands and resources.

This brief presents key findings and trends over the 10 years of the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), highlighting the importance and effectiveness of stakeholder engagement, partnerships and networks in promoting and advancing ESD. This brief examines the importance of regional networks.

This analytical document provides an assessment of the current state of social protection systems around the globe, their coverage, benefits, and expenditures. It shows how social protection is at the forefront of the sustainable development agenda, given its positive social and economic impacts. It also takes into account climate changes consequences on social protection systems. 

This analytical report explains the environmental dimension of the issue of antibiotic residues in the environment,  resistant pathogens and other molecules with antimicrobial properties that enhance the spread of resistance genes in microbial communities. It emphasizes the need for considering the environmental exposure to antimicrobials in efforts to curb the resistance.

This document investigates the impacts of extreme events, as there is growing confidence that their number is on the increase in several regions, and is related to anthropogenic climate change. Climate-related disasters now account for more than 80 percent of all disaster events, with large social and economic impacts.

Este Plan Regional, elaborado por los ocho Estados Miembros del Sistema de Integración Centroamericana (SICA), establece acciones ambiciosas para desarrollar la capacidad humana para adaptarse a los riesgos del cambio climático y aprovechar las oportunidades de inversión.

This infographic showcases an initiative in Africa, as well as in the Caribbean and Pacific, which supports large-scale restoration of degraded land, while stimulating growth by developing the economic potential of non-timber forest products. It highlights how restoration and sustainable land management prove to alleviate the impacts of climate change and desertification. 

This report reviews progress in the third year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This overview presents highlights of progress and remaining gaps for all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, based on the latest available data, and examines some of the interconnections across Goals and targets. Conflict, climate change and growing inequalities add additional challenges.

This activity report covers areas of the 2017 work of UN Climate Change, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, as well as their bodies, institutional arrangements, organs and the secretariat.

This activity report highlights the global challenge of tackling man-made climate change, air quality issues and poor road safety; and in particular the role played by transport. It showcases solutions are available which can contribute to reversing those negative trends and make rapid progress towards zero emission and human powered transport; in particular walking and cycling.

This technical document presents evidence to demonstrate that each tier of government (national, regional, local) has a unique and potentially complementary role to play in delivering low emission and climate resilient development. This means that effectively co-ordinated multilevel action can help nations implement their Nationally Determined Contributions. It provides key arguments to national government for integrating sub-national government in climate change policy, action and financing, and gives examples of where this has been achieved.

This technical document highlights the importance of water management, as growing populations, expanding cities and unsustainable natural resource management are increasing water stress on rural communities, while climate change and shocks are exacerbating flooding, landslides and saltwater intrusion into freshwater systems. Through a series of case studies, it provides an approach for investments in water, from irrigation to reducing climate-related risks in arid areas, to disaster risk management and access to clean water for nutrition and sanitation.

The briefing note highlights the need to apply a country-driven institutional capacity development approach for the formulation, implementation and monitoring of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) for more impactful and sustainable climate adaptation action. It provides guidance on how to identify country strengths and needs for NAP through a participatory institutional capacity needs assessment process to improve cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination mechanisms between ministries and relevant stakeholders. 

This briefing note provides an overview of the key issues to consider and main entry points for gender mainstreaming in the development of  National Adaptation Plans for the agriculture sectors, as . climate change does not impact everyone in a community or country in the same way; greater attention to the structural inequalities and gendered power relations that impact resilience and adaptation, particularly in the context of small-holder agriculture, pastoralism, fisheries and forestry is crucial for effective adaptation planning in the agriculture sectors.

This briefing note introduces evaluation methods that provide programme managers and policymakers with thorough evidence on the impact of adaptation interventions, allowing them to make informed policy choices on adaptation options. By engaging in detailed, evidence-based evaluation, policymakers and programme managers can address critical elements for the formulation and implementation of the National Adaptation Plans. 

This briefing note illustrates the role and logic of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in the evaluation of climate change adaptation policies and projects in the agriculture sectors and describes the main analytical steps for conducting it, providing practical examples. The note describes the standard CBA methodology but highlights the peculiarities related to its implementation in the context of climate change adaptation in the agriculture sectors. 

This case study builds on an advanced suite of climate change policies, strategies and plans, as Uruguay is implementing innovative dialogues to develop an Agriculture National Adaptation Plan (NAP) through a participatory process. This case study summarises how the sectoral NAP will develop capacities of producers and institutions to implement appropriate and well-monitored adaptation measures.

This case study summarizes the context for the adoption of Kenya’s National Adaptation Plan (2015-2030); details how agriculture sectors can be better integrated into NAPs; and describes how Kenya came to launch one of the first NAPs in Africa and among developing countries.

This report provides an outlook of the current status and trends in renewable energy. It finds that falling costs for solar electricity, and to some extent wind power, is continuing to drive deployment. More electricity generated by renewable sources in 2017 signals strong commitment to addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions.