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This bulletin reports on the atmospheric burdens and rates of change of the most important long-lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs) – carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, CFC-12 and CFC-11 – and provides a summary of the contributions of the other gases.

This paper outlines how Climate and health are inextricably linked in a number of ways. Climate affects some of the most fundamental determinants of health: air, water, food, shelter and disease.

Construction of new buildings and refurbishment of existing buildings alike represent the largest potential for technically feasible and economically viable reductions of emissions and of energy consumption, while encouraging the development of new professional skills and generation of significant employment opportunities. South Africa was the first country studied by the ILO in specific regard to Green Jobs in Construction.

This analytical report shows that a total of eight new carbon markets opened in 2013, and another launched in early 2014. With these additions, the world’s emissions trading schemes are valued at about US$30 billion. China now houses the second largest carbon market in the world, covering the equivalent of 1,115 million tons of carbon dioxide, after the EU ETS, with its 2,039 MtCO2e cap in 2013.

This analytical report presents the World Bank Group’s experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that it is essential to eliminate extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity by 2030. The report argues for closer collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk management communities through the incorporation of climate and disaster resilience into broader development processes.

This analytical report looks at whether and how public funds, utilizing pay-for-performance mechanisms, may be used to incentivize reductions of methane emissions. This report documents the discussions of the Methane finance study group. Reducing methane can be achieved in a range of sectors, including oil and gas production and natural gas processing, transmission, and distribution; coal mine methane; solid waste and wastewater management, and agriculture.

This analytical report was prepared for the G20 Development Working Group to inform the creation of a public-private G20 Dialogue Platform on Inclusive Green Investment to scale up commercially viable financial investments. This is a stocktaking exercise on existing innovative mechanisms to mobilize private capital for inclusive green growth investments in developing countries, and how to scale them up, including initiatives to engage institutional investors in these investments to identify best practices.

This analytical report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day, 2°C and 4°C warming on agricultural production, water resources, and coastal vulnerability for affected populations. It finds many significant climate and development impacts are already being felt in some regions, and in some cases multiple threats of increasing extreme heat waves, sea level rise, more severe storms, droughts and floods are expected to have further severe negative implications for the poorest.

A local resource-based approach to infrastructure development can be a major contribution to assisting communities adapt to climate change. This manual describes the approach in the context of climate change adaptation and identifies the benefits for poor communities. It links climate change adaptation with poverty reduction and employment creation in five subsectors: irrigation, soil and water conservation, flood control, rural transport and forestry.

The knowledge of how the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy will affect employment, especially underlying job movements, is vital to informing policy, yet there are few comparable studies for developing countries. As part of the ILO’s Global Green Jobs Programme, this manual provides practical solutions to help fill these information gaps.

This publication introduces the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP). It is driving a major scaling up of successful ‘multiple-benefit’ approaches to smallholder agriculture, which improve production while reducing and diversifying climate-related risks.

The purpose of this policy document is to synthesize available knowledge and best practices in climate change adaptation and mitigation in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors with a view to guide IFAD interventions in these sectors.

This analytical document summarizes the working paper “Viet Nam − Climate Change Analysis and Adaptation Responses”, which was prepared for IFAD’s country strategic opportunities programme (COSOP) 2012-2017. The working paper resulted from a series of workshops and field visits undertaken in the months leading up to the COSOP mission, in September 2011.

This activity report documents a workshop that was a follow-up of the Joint OECD-INEA-FAO Workshop on Agriculture and Adaptation to Climate Change, which was held in June 2010. One of the conclusions of that 2010 Workshop was that, as climate change brings new uncertainties, adds new risks and changes already existing risks, one of the most effective ways for agriculture to adapt to climate change could be to increase its resilience.

This analytical report identifies ways of reducing emissions by assessing the mitigation potential of sets of technologies. Such analysis provides guidance for local and system-specific solutions, as sector actors seek to improve sustainability and viability, but also for more targeted pro-poor livestock development.

This activity report includes case studies and discussions of a regional expert workshop entitled  » Climate Change, Fishery and Aquaculture in Latin America: Potential Impacts and Challenges for Adaptation » which took place from 5 to 7 October 2011 at the Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South Pacific (COPAS), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile.

This analytical report draws on the research of the world’s main atmospheric science, climate change and policy centers to present a unified message on the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, present and future, using shared indicators.

The Resource Guides for Advanced Learning on Climate Change facilitate access to existing climate change learning materials and support the development of complementary learning resources, as appropriate. Resource Guides are compiled for selected topics of climate change for which a wealth of learning resources is available and that have been identified as important topics from a country perspective.

This publication focuses on interactions between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas. It contains 11 feature articles and provides highlights of UNEP’s work as well as country-level action on climate change mitigation and environmental conservation.

This activity report presents the results of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Pilot Projects in Kenya and Tanzania. It is directed at local and national decision-makers, researchers and practitioners. It looks at the concepts behind the MICCA’s research activities in East Africa and describes the analytical approaches used, in order to reveals key messages relevant to discussions on climate-smart agriculture.