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This analytical report identifies the current commitments, gaps and opportunities for enhancing regional mitigation and adaptation ambitions in the agriculture sectors.  The report aims to provide developing countries with the support required for implementing their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and ensuring future commitments are transparent, quantifiable, comparable, verifiable and ambitious. 

Esta guía tiene como objetivo fortalecer la enseñanza sobre los efectos del cambio climático en ecosistemas de agua dulce: ríos y lagos; mediante la educación a través de la acción; donde los/las participantes creen y diseñen los conocimientos, fortalezcan sus capacidades y analicen los cambios que sufren estos
ecosistemas mediante un enfoque multidisciplinario y apoyados en la tecnología de la información
como herramienta de aprendizaje; mejorando su capacidad de evaluar, de manera crítica, los problemas y conflictos con que se enfrentan y entendiendo que cada uno de nosotros forma parte del cambio.

This factsheet provides current information showcasing how disasters drive global food insecurity and hunger, particularly when they compound existing economic vulnerability. They destroy agricultural assets and infrastructure, causing serious damage to the livelihoods and food security of millions of vulnerable people.

This guidance document synthesizes recent work on climate and disaster resilience monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to help identify emerging lessons from early applications and to define the key steps to develop a M&E system for climate and disaster resilience-building operations, particularly at the project level. 

This guidance document aims to help address this challenge by providing the missing identification and evaluation assistance that those looking for adaptation solutions initially face. More specifically, it focuses on adaptation technologies for building resilience to climate change induced hazards in the water sector. It provides a simple and comprehensive overview of specific water technologies and techniques that address challenges resulting from climate change and help to build adaptive capacity. 

The guide focuses on the water climate change adaptation technology taxonomy, systematizing the most pressing climate change challenges in the water sector. It also shows that adaptation technologies are relevant to ensuring sustainable supplies of clean water and mitigation of water-related disasters. 

This report focuses on investments for resilient transport systems as a way to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts. It not only opens up ways to address our current situation facing climate change impacts but also directly contributes to the accomplishment of Tuvalu’s key strategic goals.

This report is an overview of the Coalition’s progress from 2016 to 2017 and includes information on the status of short-lived climate pollutants emissions, actions and policy trends. 

This Programme Document provides the framework for the implementation of the UNV Global Programme on Community Resilience for Environment and Disaster-Risk Reduction.

This giudance document provides an overview on Partnering with UNV in one of the key programming areas of its Strategic Framework 2014-2017, namely Community Resilience for Environment and Disaster-Risk Reduction.

This report presents new data on how increasingly erratic rainfall impacts farms, firms and families, as climate change is making rainfall more erratic and less predictable. .  It also shows that although floods and storm surges pose major threats, droughts are “misery in slow motion,” with costlier impacts that run deeper and longer than previously believed.

Este documento presenta la Estrategia sobre el Cambio Climático, que se centrará en tres aspectos. En primer lugar, aumentar las capacidades institucionales y técnicas de los países miembros. En segundo, mejorar la integración de la seguridad alimentaria, la agricultura, la silvicultura y las pesquerías en la agenda de lucha contra el cambio climático internacional. Y, en tercero, mejorar la coordinación interna y el cumplimiento de las misiones de la FAO.

This issue brief highlights volunteerism as a constant — a universal, dynamic and creative resource present to support multidimensional responses to the challenge of ensuring environmental sustainability, including the increase of natural disasters, attributed in part to climate change.

This document analyzes how climate change is caused by human action – and can consequently only be addressed by changing human behaviour, especially with regard to consumption and production patterns. The environment movement is rooted in volunteer action. In most cases, volunteers are among the first on site to respond to the aftermath of environmental disasters.

This guidance document looks at ways to integrate volunteerism into the environment and climate change area. It was developed to provide an understanding of volunteerism and its contribution to this focus area. It intends to contribute to strengthening of UNV capacity to more effectively engage partners in environmental and climate change activities during its advocacy and programming work.

This guidance document focuses on promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation at the local and community level, a it’s at the local level that changes in the ecosystem can result in, for example, freshwater shortages, reduced agricultural productivity, or increased health risks that can directly affect the livelihoods of individuals, families and communities living in the area. 

This report aims to improve the understanding of the key issues at the interface between maritime transport, sustainability and resilience. It identifies gaps and needs facing the maritime transport sector in SIDS and highlights potential response measures with a view to more sustainable and resilient maritime transport systems, as environmental degradation and climate change threaten the very existence of SIDS, world hotspots of natural biodiversity and marine resources. 

This meeting report is based on the  transformational potential associated with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as transport sector is a key issue in the fight against climate change.

This guidance document highlights the potential for freight transport to emerge as an important sector that adheres to sustainable development principles and promotes people, prosperity, environment and sustainable partnerships, in the context of the adoption of the Paris Agreement at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP21).

This workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of policy makers, transport planners and transport infrastructure managers in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to understand climate change impacts on coastal transport infrastructure and take appropriate adaptation response measures.  Stakeholders discussed the draft case-study of Saint Lucia, as well as the draft methodology for assessing climate-related impacts and adaptation options that is being developed under the project.