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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 Jamaica, as well as the draft methodology for assessing climate-related impacts and adaptation options that is being developed under the project. 

This report provides the main highlights, topics and conclusions from the workshop focusing on on Observations for Climate Change Mitigation from 5-7 May 2014.  The workshop aimed at developing a statement on the general adequacy of the observations coordinated by the GCOS to support climate change mitigation and identify of further work that may need to be undertaken in preparation for the next GCOS status report on the Global Observing Systems for Climate.

This report provides the main highlights, topics and conclusions from the workshop that brought together more than 70 participants to discuss Enhancing Observations to Support Preparedness and Adaptation in a Changing Climate – Learning from the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report – at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. Participants represented the UNFCCC Secretariat and Parties, GCOS, IPCC and other United Nations Secretariat units and bodies and academic, governmental and non-governmental experts.

This report performs two functions: It assesses the progress made against the actions set out in the GCOS Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC, while also providing a more generic assessment of the overall adequacy of the global observing system for climate. It makes use of a wide range of supporting GCOS materials published.

This guidance document provides background on the requirements and recommendations for a functional and robust Global Climate Observing System. Global climate monitoring, including water and greenhouse-gas fluxes, supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementation of the Paris Agreement. While observations are the focus of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, aspects of climate-related policy are covered by many different government departments.

This report showcases the importance of the ship‐based biogeochemical and ecological time series as a tool to characterize and quantify ocean ecosystems. These results are intended to encourage others to establish new time series and/or continue the sustained systematic sampling of the existing ones and promote data sharing. It also aims to improve the governance, management, institutional capacity, and decision-making processes with respect to marine resources and climate variability.

This analytical document illustrates the disparities in the affordability of food and an attempt to disentangle the factors behind them. It highlights the steps that can be taken to mitigate these disparities in the aim to end hunger by 2030. 

This analytical document provides a compendium of the main findings and lessons learnt from food security climate analyses that have been undertaken by WFP and partners under the Climate Adaptation Management and Innovation Initiative (C-ADAPT). It is targeted at government policy makers, humanitarian partners, and technical analysts interested in accessing a snap shot of a range of food security climate analyses. 

This report is the quantifies the flow and patterns of concessional finance in support of climate and disaster resilience in small island developing states (SIDS). By clarifying the nature, scope and volume of concessional funding for climate and disaster resilience, it aims to inform policy and decision makers, in both SIDS recipient governments as well as among funding providers, and promote a more e ective provision and use of nancing for resilience.

This Commission to explores explicit carbon-pricing options and levels that would induce the change in behaviors— particularly in those driving the investments in infrastructure, technology, and equipment—needed to deliver on the temperature objective of the Paris Agreement, in a way that fosters economic growth and development, as expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals. It also covers other policies relevant and important to carbon-pricing design and delivery on the Paris agreement.

This guidance document can be used as a tool for the preparation of background sections or policy documents, given their emphasis on climate change and health links. Other sections provide approaches and tools that can be directly extracted and built into projects and programs. More than 20 case studies appear throughout to illustrate the practical value in connecting climate change and health. 

This analytical document focuses on how businesses can develop new financial and business models to deliver the next wave of climate solutions in transport, waste, agriculture and energy storage. Governments have made a great start by bringing the Paris Agreement so quickly into force. It highlights the need for more partnership and coordinated action between government, business and civil society. 

This activity report provides an overview of the progress made in 2016 in implementing the Africa Climate Business Plan, a blueprint for climate action in Africa that the World Bank launched during the 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in November 2015. 

This guidance document aims to provide a neutral comparison of the similarities and diferences between the UNFCCC REDD+ decisions and the Forest Carbon Partnership Carbon Fund’s Methodological Framework, as well as Germany’s REM Programme. There were two main objectives in conducting this type of comparative analysis. The first is to support countries to address their needs to consider these similarities and diferences, as well as potential implications of these, in order to design efective and coordinated REDD+ Emission Reduction Programmes in their countries. A second objective of the document is to serve as a useful input to support the GCF work on REDD+ RBPs / RBF.

This guidance documents addresses the absence of a common knowledge base as a reference for REDD+ practitioners. Its objectives are twofold, to: 1. Summarize the REDD+ decisions under the UNFCCC; and 2. Foster a common understanding of the REDD+ decisions under the UNFCCC.

This technical document provides information on safeguards requirements for REDD+, particularly in terms of safeguards information system (SIS) design in line with UNFCCC guidance. It highlights SIS design will be influenced by a country’s safeguards approach, including how a country has defined the goals, scope and scale of safeguards application, also whether the environmental and social benefits and risks of REDD+ actions have been assessed .

This technical document defines the approach of the UN-REDD Programme on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It can also assist partner countries to realize the gender equality provisions contained in international agreements (such as the climate change convention), including on safeguards, as well as contribute to Sustainable Development Goal #5 on gender equality. 

This activity report provides the first global scientific assessment of climate change impacts on World Heritage coral reefs. Soaring ocean temperatures in the past three years have subjected 21 of 29 World Heritage reefs to severe and/or repeated heat stress, and caused some of the worst bleaching ever observed at iconic sites. The analysis predicts that all 29 coral-containing World Heritage sites would cease to exist as functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of this century under a business-as-usual emissions scenario.

This guidance document focuses on the need of access to healthy and productive land in order to achieve goal 15 “Life on Land”. Around 12 million hectares are lost each year to degradation processes. Achieving the overarching goals for sustainable development is unrealistic if we the ground for this generation and for generations to come is not secure.

This guidance document highlights the impact of current droughts as well as presenting projections for the future. It suggests that overcoming the prevailing paradigm of ‘reactive’ and ‘crisis-based’ approaches to drought and moving towards ‘proactive’ and ‘risk-based’ approaches will be indispensable to reducing the risks and mitigating the impacts of droughts, floods and other extreme weather events.