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This analytical report reviews the issues and challenges in addressing the impact of climate change on their rural economies and highlights opportunities arising from the climate-change development agenda. The study also discusses measures taken by the subregion towards mitigating and reducing the impacts of climate change and mainstreaming it in rural-development policies. It further highlights how these initiatives can be further strengthened to improve the regional and national response to the global threat.

This policy brief outlines the financial mechanisms and instruments that could potentially be used to channel resources into countries’ climate change programs. It then offers lessons learned and policy recommendations given Latin America and the Caribbean countries’ experience with different versions of these mechanisms.

This technical document provides policy makers with tools that can be used to integrate mitigation and adaptation into policies that are created to address housing issues. It details the challenges associated with the undertaking as well as offers several case studies illustrating how policymakers have been able to tackle the issue in the Americas.

This analytical document identifies allocation provisions and institutional mechanisms that can mitigate potential conflicts between basin States in the face of increasing water variability caused by climate change. It finds that climate change will potentially destabilize transboundary river basins, and outlines the linkages among climate change, water variability and security; identifies elements in treaty design that could reduce conflict; and assesses the resilience of treaties ratified between 1948 and 2001, examining the effect of institutional and allocation mechanisms under conditions of variability on cooperation and conflict over time.

This analytical document identifies allocation provisions and institutional mechanisms that can mitigate potential conflicts between basin States in the face of increasing water variability caused by climate change. It finds that climate change will potentially destabilize transboundary river basins, and outlines the linkages among climate change, water variability and security; identifies elements in treaty design that could reduce conflict; and assesses the resilience of treaties ratified between 1948 and 2001, examining the effect of institutional and allocation mechanisms under conditions of variability on cooperation and conflict over time.

This manual shows how science and policy actions have led to innovative solutions to environmental issues, reconfirming the critical role of the environment in maintaining and improving people’s and ecosystems’ health. Its chapters address: excess nitrogen in the environment; combating (re)emerging infectious diseases; marine fish and shellfish farming; illegal wildlife trade; methane hydrates; realizing the potential of citizen science; air pollution; plastic debris in the ocean; securing soil carbon benefits; and rapid change in the Arctic. Most of the issues involved are closely linked to climate change.

This manual shows how science and policy actions have led to innovative solutions to environmental issues, reconfirming the critical role of the environment in maintaining and improving people’s and ecosystems’ health. Its chapters address: excess nitrogen in the environment; combating (re)emerging infectious diseases; marine fish and shellfish farming; illegal wildlife trade; methane hydrates; realizing the potential of citizen science; air pollution; plastic debris in the ocean; securing soil carbon benefits; and rapid change in the Arctic. Most of the issues involved are closely linked to climate change.

This technical document provides the key elements (teechnical, political and institutional) which must be taken into account in the planning for climate change mitigation. It showcases examples of mitigation planning processes in developping countries to illustrate the various options. The document also provides special considerations to include smallholder farmers in the planning process.

This technical document focusses on the role of pooled financing mechanisms in strengthening synergies among humanitarian, development and climate finance provided to fragile and conflict-affected countries. It emphasizes that these three sources of finance are used to fund recovery efforts independently of each other, thus reducing recovery efforts’ effectiveness and increasing risks of financing gaps. Highlighting the valuable role pooled financing mechanisms can play in enhancing synergies among humanitarian, development and climate assistance, the report notes that those mechanisms are constrained by coverage, capitalization and coherence.

This technical document focusses on the role of pooled financing mechanisms in strengthening synergies among humanitarian, development and climate finance provided to fragile and conflict-affected countries. It emphasizes that these three sources of finance are used to fund recovery efforts independently of each other, thus reducing recovery efforts’ effectiveness and increasing risks of financing gaps. Highlighting the valuable role pooled financing mechanisms can play in enhancing synergies among humanitarian, development and climate assistance, the report notes that those mechanisms are constrained by coverage, capitalization and coherence.

This Atlas seeks to raise awareness of these and other challenges to collecting and analysing disaster risk information. It presents a worldwide analysis of extreme weather, climate and water events, drawing on the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), compiled by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It compares the reported impacts of meteorological, climatic and hydrological extremes on people and economies at both global and regional levels.

This analytical report assesses farmers’ incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi.

This analytical report assesses farmers’ incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi.

This analytical report describes efforts by the ClimateWorks Foundation and the World Bank to quantify the multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits associated with policies and projects to reduce emissions in select sectors and regions.

This book aims to insert children’s perspectives into the global debate on how we should mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts. It brings together the knowledge and opinions of 40 contributors – scientists, development workers, and experts in health, nutrition and children’s rights – in an attempt to build up a clear picture of what climate change means for the children of today and tomorrow.

This booklet showcases ten best practices from the climate smart agriculture approach to the crop, fishery, forestry and livestock sectors. The report stresses the urgency of tackling climate change and safeguarding food security to boost farmers’ resilience and adaptation to climate change and illustrates how rural communities are already transitioning to farming practices that are better suited to a warming world.

This activity report presents initial results from projects initiated in Eastern Africa in 2012, highlighting an increase in farmers’ resilience to climate variability, as well as enhanced food security. It stems from a project focused on helping countries adopt sustainable land and water management. The project tests resource-efficient and productive land-use management techniques, with a view to understanding the potential impact of a comprehensive set of sustainable agriculture and food security adaptation practices adopted at the community level.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

This analytical report explores the impacts of climate change on the ICT sector and proposes pathways to strengthen the sector’s approach to adaptation, including the development of new standards. The report aims to raise awareness on the need to design and implement information and communication technologies (ICT) strategies to prepare for, respond and adjust to short and long-term climate impacts.

This visual aid maps climate, food security and disaster threats that will impede the sustainable development of communities in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

The Atlas is one outcome of the World Food Programme’s Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping (VAM) work, which focuses on food security. The Atlas can help policymakers identify areas most in need of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and prepare to mitigate the consequences of cimate-related disasters, according to WFP Regional Director Miguel Barreto.