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Beyond Technology Transfer: Protecting Human Rights in a Climate-Constrained World
This report, published by the International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) outlines how technology transfer, climate change, and human rights-based approaches explicitly come together. It focuses on how human rights-based approaches to technology transfer bear on climate change mitigation...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2011 | EN
The Ethical Implications of Global Climate Change (COMEST)
This document examines ethical and human rights-based approaches to climate change and climate-related vulnerability. It was published by the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), an independent expert advisory committee tasked with guiding the UN...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2010 | EN
Addressing Financing for Agriculture: Ensuring a triple dividend for smallholders
This paper gives an overview of the financing needs of smallholder farmers, their current sources of financing, and ways to deliver these funds to help them achieve the triple dividends of enhanced food security, increased resilience to climate change, and reduced emissions of greenhouse gases. It...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
Climate change, water stress, conflict and migration
This collection of papers was presented at a conference on linkages between climate change, water, conflict and migration, held in September 2011 at The Hague, in the Netherlands, where the discussion focused on: capacity building and resilience in climate hotspots; conflict prevention; and a legal...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2012 | EN
Institutional innovations in African smallholder carbon projects
This report presents the results of a study of six African agricultural carbon projects and identifies institutional innovations -- such as financial management and carbon monitoring systems -- that have helped make them successful. It also puts forward emerging research questions and discusses the...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
CDM in Africa: Finance and Support
This report provides a summary of key financing and support opportunities -- excluding multilateral and domestic sources -- available to Climate Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in Africa and other underrepresented regions. Funding sources covered include the KfW Carbon Fund, World Bank group...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
Final technical report: an experimental approach to capacity and toolkit development for monitoring and evaluation within climate change adaptation initiatives
This report presents the results of a project that aimed to harmonise approaches to the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation in Africa. The project also aimed to test ways of improving training materials on selected methodologies, and to develop a strategy for outreach. It...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2012 | EN
IGES Market Mechanisms Country Fact Sheets
These country fact sheets aim to provide updated information on the status of national climate policy and market mechanisms -- including the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), greenhouse gas emissions, and nationally appropriate mitigation actions -- in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lao...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2012 | EN
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2012-2021
This is the eighteenth edition of the Agricultural Outlook, which outlines projected market trends (from 2012 to 2021) for major agricultural commodities and biofuels, and presents recent developments and uncertainties associated with those markets. It focuses on the challenges of meeting the...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
Inclusive Wealth Report 2012: Measuring progress toward sustainability
This report presents a new index, which could become an alternative to gross domestic product (GDP) and the Human Development Index as a means of assessing a country's economic development. The Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI) measures nations' wealth by taking into account natural resources and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
Climate change, vulnerability and human mobility: Perspectives of refugees from the East and Horn of Africa
This report examines how refugees and displaced people from several countries in the East and Horn of Africa have perceived, experienced and responded to climatic variability and the negative impacts of climate change. Through interviews and focus groups, and supported by a literature review, the...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
The State of the World's Forests 2012
This report argues that more sustainable use of forestry resources can help reduce poverty and hunger, mitigate the impacts of climate change, and create more sustainable sources of bio-products and bio-energy. It was released at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), where many of...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation
This report highlights scientific literature relating to the contribution of indigenous and traditional knowledge to understanding climate change vulnerability, resilience and adaptation. It aims to strengthen consideration of indigenous knowledge in the Fifth Assessment Report of the...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
Forest Management and Climate Change: Stakeholder perceptions
This report presents the results of the survey of forest stakeholders, soliciting their views, opinions and observations on issues that influence the ability of forest managers to respond to climate change. It is aimed at forest managers, policymakers, researchers, communications specialists and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2012 | EN
Food Security and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region: Evaluating Mismatch between Crop Development and Water Availability
This paper looks at how climate change could affect the rate of phenological development -- biological events related to climate, such as flowering -- and rainfall patterns during the growing season. The authors suggest that these changes may result in mismatch between water demand by crops and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2012 | EN
Analysing the emission gap between pledged emission reductions under the Cancún Agreements and the 2 °C climate target
This report analyses pledge on emissions reductions put forward by Parties in the Cancún Agreements, including information emerging since the negotiations took place in 2010. It focuses on the uncertainties and risks of achieving the goal of limiting the global temperature increase to 2 degrees...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: April 2012 | EN
Advance Guard — Climate Change Compendium (download version)
This online book aims to offer insight into development issues related to climate change and indigenous peoples that can be useful in policymaking. It provides an overview of more than 400 relevant projects, case studies and research activities. Different sections cover climate and environmental...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: April 2012 | EN
Water, Food & Energy Nexus: High-Level Panel at the Sixth World Water Forum
This publication presents case studies that illustrate the strong links and inter-dependencies between water, food and energy, from the perspective of a range of organisations worldwide. It was produced to inform discussions of the High-Level Panel on the Water, Food and Energy Nexus, held during...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2012 | EN
Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change
This report lays out a set of policy recommendations for the sustainable intensification of agriculture and reduction of food waste to create a resilient global food system. Based on a review of scientific evidence, it pinpoints seven actions that policymakers -- including those attending the UN...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: March 2012 | EN
UNEP Year Book 2012
This report presents important environmental events and developments of 2012, and provides an overview of the status of key environmental indicators. It highlights the benefits of carbon storage in soil and the decommissioning of nuclear power plants as issues of emerging significance, and aims to...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2012 | EN
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