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This guidance document prsents the inclusion of Science, technology and innovation (STI) in both the Sustainable Development Goals and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. For STI to be effectively implemented for inclusive and sustainable development, it is critical to first chart the practical steps needed for balanced and integrated development. This 2016 publication makes an important contribution to these deliberations.

Thguidance document calls for the Asia-Pacific region to work together to raise and channel more substantial financial resources to invest in the social sector, infrastructure development and efforts to tackle climate change in order to ensure a transformative change to bring about inclusive growth and sustainable development.

This activity report examines the 2030 Agenda from a youth perspective, following the so-called ‘five Ps’ — people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership. It considers the social, economic and environmental dimensions of development and stresses the need to create conditions for youth to be engaged, active and integral parts of the solutions we need.

This guidance document explains how the Istanbul Programme of Action aims at overcoming the structural challenges of the LDCs through building their human and productive capacities and enabling their graduation from the LDC category. Its objective is to support the sustainable development of LDCs.

This guidance document looks at how children, particularly the most disadvantaged, are affected by air pollution. It points out that around 300 million children live in areas where the air is toxic – exceeding international limits by at least six times – and that children are uniquely vulnerable to air pollution, breathing faster than adults on average and taking in more air relative to their body weight. The document also notes that air pollution is a major contributing factor in the deaths of around 600,000 children under age 5 every year and threatens the health, lives and futures of millions more.

This analytical document aims to be a tool to present compelling scientific evidence on the most severe consequences of the continued exposure to high level of air pollution of Mongolian children. The report shows UNICEF Mongolia’s focus on generating evidence to raise public awareness on the impact of air pollution on child health and its contribution to the development of mitigation measures. 

This guidance document aims to explain UNECE’s work on climate change in the pan-European region, by transforming global goals into practical norms, standards and conventions. UNECE climate change mitigation work targets cross-cutting areas that can achieve large greenhouse gas reductions. Adaptation work helps countries to address the impacts of climate change – from transport and cities to water management and forests.

This activity report contains the results of nexus assessments that have been carried out in the framework of the UNECE Water Convention’s programme of work for 2013–2015 in specific basin contexts: the Alazani/Ganykh in the Caucasus, the Sava in South- Eastern Europe and the Syr Darya in Central Asia. The nexus assessments describe the characteristics of the resources of water, food and land, energy and ecosystem services, and their governance. Graphics illustrate the interlinkages identified. Climate change and socioeconomic drivers, and their effects on intersectoral dynamics, are also considered. Finally, a broad range of beneficial response actions are outlined. 

The pilot projects aim to increase adaptive capacity of countries sharing transboundary river basins and to promote dialogue in developing adaptation strategies  and measures. The platform consisting of regular workshops create a wider forum for exchanging experience with basins from around the world.

This web platform for exchange of experience between the pilot projects contains some of the first transboundary adaptation strategies developed wordwide, such as those on the Neman and Dniester Basins, developed by UNECE and partners, and those developed by river basin commissions such as the Danube and Rhine.

The web platform for exchange of experience between the pilot projects contains some of the first transboundary adaptation strategies developed wordwide, such as those on the Neman and Dniester Basins, developed by UNECE and partners, and those developed by river basin commissions such as the Danube and Rhine.

This activity report explains the actions of the global network of basins and pilot projects working on climate change adaptation in the transboundary context. The project aims at strengthening the capacity to adapt to climate change and to create positive examples demonstrating the benefits of transboundary cooperation in adaptation planning and implementation. They include joint impact and vulnerability assessment and the development of a basin-wide adaptation strategy. Experience between the basins is exchanged through a web platform and regular meetings.

Ce document d’orientation explique comment la variabilité et le changement climatiques ont des incidences diverses sur la production agricole. Des cultures qui traditionnellement avaient de bons rendements dans certaines régions, peuvent diminuer alors que d’autres peuvent se développer. De même, des zones où par le passé les rendements étaient faibles, peuvent devenir plus productives avec les variations de la température et de la pluviométrie.

This policy brief is developed based on 5 key messages: 1) A fresh start for international climate policy, 2) Not words only but action, 3) Continued CDM reform, 4) Create post-2020 public CER demand and investment certainty, and 5) The SDM should primarily work as a market mechanism, but also serve as a tool for results-based mitigation finance.

This guidance document is based on how crucial coordination and facilitation will be in Africa in order to move forward with the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), as the cornerstone of the Paris Agreement. Parties are now turning their intentions into concrete contributions, facing potential complexities and intricacies in the implementation of nationally determined contributions. 

This guidance document highlights the urge to engage with non-State actors, especially young people, in the context of the Paris Agreement laying out long-term ambitions for climate change. It explains the ClimDev-Africa Youth Platform, set up by the Climate for Development Programme (ClimDev-Africa),  as a regional platform for the interaction of African youth networks on climate change.

This analytical document emanates from the discussion of how countries might incentivize NCBs. It differentiates between co-benefits and non-carbon benefits on the basis that the latter are a precondition for the sustainability of REDD+ while the former are opportunistic benefits (so-called “lowhanging fruit”) that have not been specifically planned for.  

Ce document d’orientation présente le programme des jeunes juristes africains (YAL), qui reconnaît l’importance de la lutte contre les impacts du changement climatique de façon globale ainsi que les rôles et les responsabilités sans pareil des juristes dans le processus,  rassemble des jeunes juristes africains et motivés en vue d’ intégrer les réponses au changement climatique dans le programme de développement de l’Afrique. 

Ce document technique présente une revue des difficultés rencontrées au cours du processus Contributions Prévues Déterminées au Niveau National (CPDN) , les points de friction dans le texte de Lima et l’épineuse question relative au financement indispensable à la mise en œuvre de ces plans.

This summary of proceedings of the Multi-Year Expert Meeting on Transport and Trade Facilitation, 2009, draws on the documentation from the Expert Meeting, and provides hyperlinks to speakers’ presentation. It was prepared to present the key issues discussed by the experts and to make their insights available to a broader audience, as part of UNCTAD’s contribution to the debate about appropriate action to address the challenge of climate change. The document has also been submitted as an information note to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, ahead of the Copenhagen Conference.

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Final Report