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This technical document offers guidance and identifying options related to developing scaled-up crediting programs. It focuses on baseline development, in particular how to develop baselines consistent with rules that may arise for international crediting (or other forms of emissions trading or transfers) under the Paris Agreement. In principle, the baseline for a crediting program should represent the GHG emissions that would occur over a specified period of time in the program’s absence, taking into account a range of factors — including domestic policies — that might influence those emissions.

This report illustrates how green industrial policy can be a driver for a green economy transformation and highlights the social, environmental and economic co-benefits of green industrial policy. Economic development in the age of industrialization has been achieved at the cost of severe overexploitation of natural resources. Humanity is approaching various ecological tipping points beyond which abrupt and irreversible environmental change at large geographical scale is likely to happen.

Esta infografía proporciona una introducción a cómo los pueblos indígenas pueden aportar soluciones orientadas a la seguridad alimentaria y el cambio climático desde diferentes áreas, incluyendo: conocimientos tradicionales,  sistemas alimentarios y conservación de la biodiversidad.

This guidance document is expected to transform Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector into a sustainable production system by maximising the climate opportunities and reducing climate change related risks on the agriculture sector. It was designed to provide adequate and effective training on climate change issues to agricultural extension workers, so that they acquire the expertise to impart climate-smart agriculture practices to rural farmers and build resilience to climate change.

This technical document presents methodologies that cover a broad range of different mitigation action types in terms of scale, type of intervention and affected modes. In addition, focus was put on interventions with significant mitigation potential. It provides an overview of approaches on GHG quantification in the transportation sector, followed by a reader guide to the mitigation action sections.

This guidance document includes an assessment of the emissions associated with the Nationally Determined Contributions and current policies of each of the G20 members, including the European Union. This is in addition to presenting an update on global greenhouse gas emissions and national actions to meet the earlier Cancun pledges.

This guidance document shows that livestock products are key to food security. The report indicates that livestock products are also responsible for more greenhouse gases emissions than most other food sources, which are caused by feed production, enteric fermentation, animal waste and land-use change.

This activity report presents the most recent and relevant knowledge, tools and methodologies FAO offers countries to report on their greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture, livestock and forestry sectors.

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.