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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
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
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
Developing CDM Programmes of Activities: A Guidebook
This handbook documents implementation issues and pitfalls to be avoided by developers of a Programme of Activities (PoA) -- a tool designed to capture emission reductions associated with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows emission-reduction credits earned by developing countries...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2010 | EN
Guide for REDD-plus negotiators
This guide aims to help developing country negotiators and others who are working on REDD-plus -- a programme of activities that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, which includes a role of conservation, sustainable management...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2010 | EN
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007 (AR4)
This report from the IPCC, provides a complete and comprehensive overview of the current knowledge and understanding of climate change. The report includes four separate documents that cover the physical science basis for climate change, projected impacts, adaptation and vulnerability of different...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Future crops: the other greenhouse effect
The one bright note in global warming is seemingly that higher carbon dioxide levels will make food crops grow faster. More crops should equal more food. But, as this feature article emphasises, the story is not that simple. Initial tests have shown that plants grown in high carbon dioxide...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: August 2007 | EN
Little REDD Book
This guide to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), published by the Global Canopy Programme, reviews many of the REDD proposals under discussion in global climate change negotiations. The authors highlight why strategies for REDD are needed, then outline and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2009 | EN
From REDD to PINC
This policy brief, published by the Global Canopy Programme, proposes a system called Proactive Investment in Natural Capital (PINC), to reward countries for conserving large areas of tropical forest that act as 'global utilities' providing ecosystem services essential for preserving global food...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2008 | EN
The road to REDD
This feature article, published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal, uses the Cordillera Azul national park in Peru as an example to introduce mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) that are under global discussion. The author discusses...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2009 | EN
Enabling agriculture to contribute to climate change mitigation
This report, submitted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, looks at how smallholder agriculture could help mitigate climate change. It focuses on soil carbon sequestration, which, say the authors, has high mitigation potential and is relevant to smallholders, although it is currently...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
How to save the Amazon rainforest
This article, published by Mongabay.com, discusses the use of forest conservation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in the Amazon. The author describes the 'reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation' (REDD) mechanism included in the Bali roadmap for international...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Carbon and biodiversity: A demonstration atlas
This report, published by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, highlights areas where high carbon content and high biodiversity overlap. The authors argue that by identifying target areas, such spatial analyses can help tropical countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-use...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Factors underpinning future action — country fact sheets
This report, prepared by Ecofys for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, aims to inform discussions on commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions post-2012, when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends. It contains fact sheets for 60 countries that include data on key...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Atmospheric brown clouds: Regional assessment report with focus on Asia
This report, written by a team of international scientists and published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), explores the effects of 'atmospheric brown clouds'(ABCs) on regional climate, agriculture and human health. ABCs are large plumes of pollutant gases that result from burning fossil...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Fuelling controversy — can biofuels slow the speed of climate change?
This annotated bibliography of mostly online resources covers the relationship between biofuels and climate change. The bibliography is divided into ten sections: Biofuels; GM trees; carbon sinks and trading; land use change -- effects on atmospheric carbon; deforestation and greenhouse gas...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: April 2007 | EN
Biofuels: the once and future energy source
This is an overview of biofuels production, focusing on its use in transport. It outlines the various biofuels manufacturing pathways, and provides data on global ethanol fuel from 1990-2006 and biodiesel production in 2006. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts biofuel production will...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2007 | EN
The Economics of Climate Change
This independent review, commissioned by the UK chancellor of the exchequer, examines the economic impacts of climate change, the economics of stabilising greenhouse gas emissions and considers policymaker's challenges in adapting to climate change and moving towards a low-carbon economy. The...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2006 | EN
Reducing Uncertainty About Carbon Dioxide as a Climate Driver
The author summarises the current state of knowledge regarding uncertainties in modelling future climates, and describes how several scientific approaches are being taken to address these issues.
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2002 | EN
International emissions trading and global climate change
Several factors influence the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation. This report illustrates the importance of one such factor -- international emissions trading -- in reducing the costs of carbon control. The authors argue that an international greenhouse gas emissions trading regime will...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 1999 | EN
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