Biblioteca

This guidance document was produced as part of the Pacific Climate Change and Migration Project, ‘Enhancing the Capacity of Pacific Island Countries to Manage the Impacts of Climate Change on Migration.’ A key objective of the project, reflected in the document, was to increase labour mobility opportunities for Pacific Islanders, through well-managed labour migration schemes.

This policy document is drawn from a chapter on climate change and migration in a forthcoming report by the International Bar Association on the “Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation.” The document considers the legal challenges for persons uprooted by climate change both internally and across borders and explores how regional labour mobility arrangements can support climate adaptation. 

This brief highlights that the cooperative model can considerably enhance the lives and livelihoods of indigenous peoples, assist in securing their rights and give them a greater opportunity to be part of the formal labour market and economy at large in an environmentally sustainable way. 

This brief highlights that the ILO Decent Work Agenda is critical for mitigating the specific social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities of indigenous and tribal peoples, and ensuring that they can be partners in combating climate change and achieving sustainable development.

This guidance document provides an overview of how El Niño climate pattern, which is strongly linked to weather fluctuations around the globe, is fueling an international food security crisis for millions of people. By disturbing rainfall and temperature patterns, El Niño has affected agriculture, water supplies and the spread of disease, and is now threatening the food security and livelihoods for some 60 million people worldwide. 

This guidance document provides an overview of how climate change increases the risk of hunger and breaks down fragile food systems around the world. Not only does it increase the frequency and intensity of floods, droughts and other natural disasters, climate change makes productive land and fresh water more difficult to access and agricultural yields even harder to increase. Climate shocks endanger millions of people’s lives and trap poor households in chronic hunger and poverty. It alsofocuses on how people can build innovitave resilience to climate change.

This brief gives an overview of selected benefits and development goals linked to low emission development strategies (LEDS) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

This guidance document provides a simplified approach for  Low Carbon Mobility Plan (LCMP) preparation for smaller cities, or cities in which no major investments are envisaged in the short-term. It also gives a step-by-step approach on the methodologies needed for its preparation, and clarifications on the role of stakeholders during the process. The toolkit has a specific focus on cities in less-developed and developing countries where significant infrastructure will be built to cater to a growing transportation demand and, therefore, land-use and transport policies can play an important role in shaping mobility demand and mode choice. 

This guidance document intends to provide readers up to date of most of the relevant and latest technological developments and events in the field of New and Renewable Energy. The Update is tailored to policy-makers, industries and technology transfer intermediaries. This issue highlights 1) Thin-film solar cells, 2) Bladeless wind energy convertor, 3) Device to harvest wave energy, 4) Carbon capture through fuel cells, 5) Production of ultra-pure hydrogen, and 6) Biodiesel fuel from algae.

This technical document intends to identify innovative initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region that utilize information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance disaster risk management. After an overview of ICT in disaster risk management in section 2, the third section provides some examples of innovative ICT solutions used in hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment initiatives in the Asia Pacific region. The focus and angle of analysis is on public-private partnerships (PPPs), e-resilience and community involvement. 

This technical document has the objective  to assess the use of ICTs in all aspects of the disaster lifecycle, particularly for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and DRM in the region. It also aims to look at good practices and emerging technologies that can be used for building e-resilience in the region. In situations of emergency, ICTs provide the necessary platform to keep communication channels open, given the underlying infrastructure is available. 

This analytical report examines the current development of information and communication technology (ICT) and its infrastructure, services and applications in Mongolia while focusing on their role in disaster risk management (DRM) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) to prevent from natural disasters by providing early warnings. As given importance to the concept of e-resilience, i.e. the development and utilization of ICT systems to provide early warnings, prevent from natural disasters as well as its ability to resist and recover from natural disasters. 

This technical document provides an overview on the various agreements on international cooperation in space technology applications for disaster management. This includes regional mechanisms specific to Asia-Pacific, many of which were led by ESCAP initiatives. The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Natural disasters such as typhoons, floods, droughts and earthquakes have led to the loss of countless lives and property. Space technology and GIS applications have been demonstrated to be effective tools in post-disaster relief and pre-disaster capacity building. 

This technical document aims to identify critical factors which can contribute to enhancing resilience of ICT infrastructure, especially in the area of protecting the vital ICT infrastructure and networks taking into account various disaster risks as well as promoting the use of ICT in disaster risk reduction to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.

This analytical document collects papers that address important policy issues related to sustainable urban transport development that can contribute towards a sustainable, efficient and effective public transport system. These papers intend to increase awareness of the policy implications and the responses to sustainable transport development in countries of the region. Good practices in other countries are presented to encourage policymakers to take action. 

This guidance document  highlights and discusses the challenges, opportunities and strategies to promote investment and access and utilize finance for developing, acquiring, deploying and diffusing climate friendly technologies in the Asia-Pacific countries. Many developing countries in the Asia Pacific region may need assistance (e.g. financial and technical) to gain access to and absorb the necessary technologies to reduce their GHG emissions. 

This analytical document presents the vision of the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) is to make electricity available for all by 2021, in order to alleviate poverty and to improve the socio-economic development and uplift human life style. In order to fulfill the vision, the GOB has prepared short-, medium-, and long-term power generation plans using gas, coal, duel fuel, nuclear and renewable energy (RE) resources. RE will play a vital role in meeting the demand of electricity in future especially in the off-grid areas of the country. 

This technical document exposes how resources are used, and looks at two specific financing tools – parametric insurance and international risk pooling mechanisms – for countries to consider for DRR purposes. Both tools have the potential to significantly reduce disaster risks at multiple levels of society. It looks at the impacts of natural disasters on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific as well as the effectiveness of DRR investments. This is followed by an overview of current DRR efforts made by governments and international donors from a financing perspective. 

This analytical document refers to a “climate financing gap”, which to be filled requires identifying alternative and innovative sources of funds from both the public and private sectors, but also developing the appropriate institutional and policy landscape to redirect existing financial flows towards climate mitigation and adaptation activities that also deliver on sustainable development priorities. Financial flows can be effectively mobilized through a combination of public policies and private investments, backed by new and pioneering financing mechanisms.

This policy document highlights financing for sustainable development as a significant component of the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda, critical for Asia and the Pacific. Home to two thirds of the world’s poor, the region will require the mobilization of vast resources to address its development challenges, with estimates of annual investment requirements amounting to around $2.1 trillion.