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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Statistical Yearbook 2012: World Food and Agriculture
This report provides a visual overview of the trends and factors shaping global food and agricultural systems, including their interactions with broader environmental and socioeconomic concerns. It presents a selection of indicators on food and agriculture by country, aiming to be a reference point...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: March 2012 | EN
Forest management and climate change: a literature review
This report gives an overview of climate change impacts on forests as part of a process to prepare management guidelines, based on a review of the literature and a survey of forest managers. It reviews how changes such as temperature alterations and availability of water might impact growth...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: March 2012 | EN
Addressing Climate Change Challenges in Africa: A Practical Guide towards Sustainable Development
This guidebook translates current knowledge on climate change and international climate policies into practical options for mitigation and adaptation in Africa, outlining the links with sustainable development. It is aimed at policymakers, decision-makers and other interested practitioners such as...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2011 | EN
21 issues for the 21st century
This report, which is part of the UN Foresight Initiative, describes the 21 most pressing emerging global environmental issues -- those recognised as very important to well-being by the scientific community, but are not yet receiving enough attention from the policymakers. These cover a range of...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2012 | EN
Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change
This book assesses the vulnerability of fisheries and aquacultures in the Pacific in light of predicted climate change and variability. It examines how climate change could affect the region's plans to maximise socioeconomic benefits from this sector, which is already facing challenges related to...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2011 | EN
Hot, Sour and Breathless: Ocean under stress — how is the biggest ecosystem on Earth faring in the lead up to Rio +20?
This report explains how acidification, warming and de-oxygenation are affecting the oceans, and encourages policymakers to mitigate these stressors and prepare appropriate policy statements ahead of Rio+20. It was written with the aim of raising awareness of ocean issues at the COP17 in Durban,...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2011 | EN
Climate Perturbation and Coastal Zone Systems in Asia Pacific Region: Holistic Approaches and Tools for Vulnerability Assessment and Sustainable Management Strategy
This technical report presents a tool designed to help understand the consequences of climate change on the coastal zone systems of the Asia Pacific regions, and examine long-term adaptation and mitigation strategies. The tool comprises three components: a model of hydrological and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2007 | EN
Climate change, water and food security
This report examines the challenges of managing water resources for agricultural use -- specifically in the context of food production -- in the face of a changing climate. It provides an overview of climate change impacts in different parts of the world, details options for adaptation and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2011 | EN
A framework for assessing the vulnerability of wetlands to climate change
This technical report examines methods for assessing the vulnerability of wetlands -- particularly in the context of climate change -- as part of a broader set of methodologies for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring. It gives an overview of available approaches to assessing vulnerability,...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2011 | EN
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