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This analytical document aims at understanding the economic costs and benefits of climate change at the micro and sectoral levels in Sri Lanka. Detailed data capture show the potential vulnerabilities smallholder farmers face. It also includes an adaptation strategy and recommendations for policymakers. 

This analytical document aims at understanding the economic costs and benefits of climate change at the micro and sectoral levels in Mongolia. Detailed data capture show the potential vulnerabilities these households face but are also used to propose a more optimal adaptation strategy.  

The report is structured as follows. The first three chapters provide a brief description of Mongolia, presenting the geography of the country and the agro-ecological zones with a focus on potential vulnerabilities and gains as a result of climate change. Chapter ‘The role of agriculture and the situation analysis of the sector’ provides summary statistics and information on the data that were collected specifically for the study on the vulnerability of livestock to climate change in Mongolia. In chapter ‘Empirical Results’, the econometric model used to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture is presented, including initial results that are likely to influence adaptation among livestock herders. Finally, the last chapter presents policy recommendations to policymakers and conclusions.

Ce document analytique cherche à appréhender le rôle de l’UNESCO dans la prévention des risques climatiques et des catastrophes naturelles à l’ échelle mondiale, ou plutôt dans la “promotion d’une culture mondiale de mitigation des risques et de préparation aux catastrophes.” Après avoir défini les cinq actions prioritaires de Hyogo, le rapport analyse de manière quantitative et qualitative le poids des catastrophes, puis souligne le rôle crucial de l’éducation des populations, de l’information et de la formation aux techniques de prévention et de réaction.

This analytical report identifies the elements that prevent and that enable the inclusion of women in REDD+ in the Philippines. It shows that taking into account gender issues is required to better address women’s inclusion in climate change – and thus to address dissimination of climate change knowledge on a broader plane. The Philippines was chosen as one of three countries for specific studies based on its progress in addressing gender issues and early experiences with REDD+. 

This analytial report provides an overview of the forest and land use situation in Sri Lanka where forests have declined rapidly over the past several decades and where indigenous people -known as the Veddha-have been largely alienated from forest lands that they traditionally managed.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the tenure considerations related to potential PAMs in order to identify the risks (conflicts, political divisions, involuntary resettlement cases to be dealt with, loss of tenure rights with negative livelihood implications) and benefits (carbon sequestration, better informed and equipped officers better able to perform their duties, more sustainable and productive land use, better recognition of tenure rights in development planning, etc) associated with each one.

This analytical document seeks to provide a common basis for ongoing policy discussions in the land and forest sectors. Its goal is thus to find a middle ground between overly simplistic descriptions of tenure security, such as those based only on formal status, and the widely held but difficult-to-use acknowledgment that “it’s complicated.” This review describes seven sets of processes that influence this context, and therefore shape land and forest tenure in contemporary Laos. These include:

1. Macro-scale forest management,
2. Village-scale zoning and land-use planning,
3. Large-scale investment and infrastructure,
4. Individual land titling,
5. Smallholder cash cropping and contract farming,
6. Community-oriented forestry including but not limited to REDD+, and
7. Community-scale land titling and other forms of tenure recognition.

This assessment report provides a comprehensive review of Malawi’s tenure regime in the context of developing the country’s national REDD+ program. The document includes information on the historical context, legal and policy framework, sources of land tenure insecurity, gender issues, and other cross-cutting governance challenges. While the existing legal and policy frameworks support strong tenure rights as a facet of community-based management, their implementation has been hindered by a number of factors, including the lack of a clear legal basis for defining forest tenure rights under various forms of management. In order to support effective and sustainable planning, the analysis intends to clarify the role of various institutional players (including traditional leaders) in the Forestry and/or the Land Acts. A set of recommendations for next steps is included in the conclusion. 

This guidance document purpose is to serve as a reference to improve the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests with the overarching goal of achieving food security for all and to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security. Indeed,  tenure systems increasingly face stress as the world’s growing population requires food security, and as environmental degradation and climate change reduce the availability of land, fisheries and forests. 

This policy document on forest tenure and the rights of indigenous peoples, to be implemented by the UN-REDD Programme in the period 2018–2020, aims at raising global knowledge to sustain country action in support of land and forest tenure governance and the promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of REDD+ implementation. The Technical Description section offers further details on the work, intended deliverables, focuses and priorities. 

This activity report presents the results of the UN-REDD Programme between January and December 2017, in the context of key cumulative achievements since the Programme’s launch in 2008. It shows that technical assistance and National Programmes were increasingly targeted towards REDD+. Plus it explains how and why funds were leveraged into other projects and partnerships, including the Green Climate Fund.

This guidance report analyses the direct drivers of deforestation and takes into account the environmental, economic and social aspirations in Côte d’Ivoire. The paper is declined into eight policy options that would enable to treat all drivers of deforestation and degradation of forests in Côte d’Ivoire, as part of the National Strategy -one of the four structuring elements that was agreed upon at the international level as a prerequisite for the implementation of REDD+-. Omong others, it investigates for example the impacts of a “Zero Deforestation Agriculture in public-private partnership” and a “Sustainable Domestic Energy Strategy with value-creation of the agricultural biomass”. 

This analytical report presents a summary of methodological tools for the assessment of climate impacts on surface hydrology in the Peruvian Andes. The importance of analyzing the potential climate impacts on hydrology in Peru arises in part from concerns about the retreat of tropical glaciers, the drying of unique Andean wetland ecosystems, as well as increased weather variability and weather extremes, all of which will affect water regulation.

The study is intended to inform plans for energy development in Peru and enable the consideration of the consequences of climate change for such development. It provides some insights into how hydrology may behave under future climate scenarios in Peru. 

This analytical report summarizes observed and projected trends in extreme weather events, present-day climate variability,  future climate change and their impacts on China’s different regions. In addition to reviewing the physical climate science, the paper also looks at trends in economic damages in China from weatherrelated hazards. The paper serves as background for a series of discussion papers on climate risk management and adaptation in China.

This analytical report focuses exclusively on data and information on the evolving initiatives that put a price on carbon, in terms of their most current status and emerging trends. It includes an expanded discussion on what the trends are telling us about the underlying motivations of and the direction the world is moving in when it comes to carbon pricing.

This guidane document provides guidance note for decision making on the adaptation needs related to floods in the Sava River Basin (SRB), that is to say Rateče, Ljubljana, Bizeljsko, etc. It includes a range of climate model runs that were used to produce climate projections for the SRB. It shows that climate change will increase the peak discharges mainly in the head part of the Sava River Basin watershed. 

This analytical report breaks new ground in understanding how weather conditions affect living standards by combining and analyzing granular temperature and precipitation information and household survey data. It identifies climate “hotspots”— areas where changes in average weather are predicted to have a negative impact on living standards—in South Asia.  Two future climate scenarios are particulary analyzed — one that is “climate-sensitive,” in which some collective action is taken to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and one that is “carbon-intensive,” in which no action is taken.

This technical report on the green economy in Burkina Faso aims to enable the country to seize the opportunities offered by its transition to a green economy. Burkina Faso has a major challenge in strengthening the foundations of its socio-economic development and the study, carried out under the UNEP Green Economy Initiative, is expected to provide a framework for green investments in Burkina Faso and boost the country’s transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy. It focuses on six priority sectors: agriculture, livestock, forestry, water, energy and mining.

This technical report summarises work conducted by UN-REDD+ during 2016 to guide the development of policy instruments for the Government of Nigeria in order to combat deforestation within the country. Since 2000 indeed, Nigeria faces a severe rate of deforestation, which results from a range of cumulative effects fundamentally driven by the immediate availability of woody biomass in the form of timber, fuelwood and construction timber; and the opportunity to acquire land for significantly higher agricultural returns.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the economic value of Nigeria’s forest resources and demonstrate some policy instruments that would alleviate pressure on these natural forest systems. 

This technical document aims at describing Afghan’s efforts to implement the implentation of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management (NCSA) and National Adaptation Programme of Action for Climate Change (NAPA) Projects. The idea of the analysis is to identity, confirm or review priority issues for action and explore national capacity needs. Those projects were supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF). 

Este documento guía identifica las acciones que necesitan una implementación inmediata para reducir la vulnerabilidad al cambio. Las evaluaciones de la vulnerabilidad en el ámbito local llevaron al equipo del Plan de Acción Nacional de Adaptación (PANA) en una misión por todo el país, visitando a las comunidades, pueblos y ciudades para determinar las vulnerabilidades. Las comunidades más vulnerables incluían a mujeres, jóvenes y ancianos. Se destacó, especialmente, la desigualdad de género en informes previos, así como las observaciones hechas en el ámbito de la comunidad.

El PANA fue preparado y dirigido por el Ministerio de Pesca y Medio Ambiente, con la ayuda del PNUD.