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This infographic focuses on how transforming energy, industry, transport, food, agriculture and forestry systems ensure to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees, maybe even 1.5. It highlights the need to anticipate, adapt and become resilient to the current and future impacts of climate change.

This infographic highlights the role of businesses in addressing climate change, as climate change and environmental degradation pose important new risks and opportunities for companies’ competitiveness, growth and development, and are turning the climate challenge into a market opportunity. It also explains how businesses can take climate action by by committing to decarbonize their operations and supply chains. 

This guidance document serves as an entry-point to understanding the 2030 Agenda. The primer explains what the agenda is about, provides a brief description of the historical process that led to its adoption, and explains the core principles underlying the agenda, its 5 dimensions, the sustainable development goals as well as their interlinkages. 

The Coastal Hazard Wheel is a universal coastal adaptation support system to address all coastal challenges simultaneously. It can be used for three main purposes: 1) Multi-hazard-assessments at local, regional and national level, 2) Identification of hazard management options for a specific coastline, and 3) As a standardized coastal language to communicate coastal information.

Este informe de actividad pretende ejemplificar casos de integración y complementariedad entre políticas públicas en materia de protección social y sostenibilidad ambiental. En el marco de la implementación de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, es importante resaltar que los modelos y herramientas que pueden generar impactos positivos simultáneos en materia de reducción de pobreza, protección social y sostenibilidad ambiental, necesitan de una mayor visibilidad para que sean escaladas como opciones de política.

This analytical document focuses on developing countries, as targeted interventions in the agriculture sectors have the potential to deliver adaptation and mitigation benefits, as well as economic, environmental and social cobenefits – often simultaneously. As the international community shifts its attention to the implementation of the Paris Agreement, all climate action will be guided by countries’ NDCs and relevant national policy frameworks. Countries will take the lead in taking transformative climate action in the agriculture sectors, but the international community must support developing countries in doing so.

This module focuese on climate change adaptation and mitigation, aiming to assist forest managers in assessing and responding to climate-change challenges and opportunities. It provides both basic and more detailed information on key issues to be considered in assessing climatechange vulnerability and risks and adaptation and mitigation options. The module provides links to important tools and to cases in which these tools have been applied in forestry to adapt to, and mitigate the impacts of, climate change. 

This activity report showcases a set of case studies that present the work of a wide range of financed and supported projects that make a case for further investment in marine protected areas to restore the health of oceanic and coastal ecosystems, strengthen resilience in the face of climate change, sustain fisheries and other economic activities, and improve the lives of the world’s poorest communities.

This activity report showcases a four-year programme supporting work in 11 African least developed countries within the Programme on Climate Information for Resilient Development in Africa (CIRDA). As such, it builds on the expertise of the CIRDA technical team, the products of several workshops, and initial consultations between CIRDA experts and public and private representatives of CIRDA-supported countries. The vision described here is closely related to the work plan and activities of the CIRDA programme.

This activity report presents 15 stories of community and indigenous initiatives working in coastal and marine ecosystems to deliver benefits across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These stories show that indigenous peoples and local communities are some of the most effective stewards of the planet’s marine ecosystems. They also show that the actions taken by these local initiatives can have widespread impact, in many cases across their entire country and beyond. 

This technical document aims at raising the voices of the media for climate action, at the national and local levels, in order to address problems related to climate change and build more accountability on how available funds for mitigating and adapting on its impacts are directed. The publication provides 1) an introduction to media matters, 2) climate change issues, facts, and figures, 3) media toolkit, 4) directory of resources, and 5) glossary of terms.

This technical document allows existing adaptation analysis and decision frameworks and tools to be catalogued in manner that is clear and easy to use and does not prescribe or recommend methods or tools. The document attempts to reflect the current state of knowledge by collecting and summarizing three broad categories of frameworks, methods, and tools. 

This guidance document outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures. 

This guidance document is the second in a series that synthesizes the most pertinent findings of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for specific economic and business sectors. It was born of the belief that businesses could make more use of AR5, which is long and highly technical, if it were distilled into accurate, accessible, timely, relevant and readable summaries.

This publication provides a status report on progress and achievements related to the MRV of REDD+ activities, as well as an update on activities related to countries’ submissions of their Forest Reference (Emission) Levels (FRELs/FRLs). The report also summarizes experiences with the technical assessment process, as of early 2017, and offers an overview of initial REDD+ results reporting and technical analyses of those reports. 

This report showcases FAO’s strategy includes an analysis of the current environmental performance of the Organization in the areas of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, energy efficiency, sustainable procurement, waste management and water usage. As part of the 2030 Agenda and in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO is committing to 1) Continue monitoring the environmental impact of its functional operations, 2) Improve its ecological performance and reduce its GHG emissions by 5.4%, 3) Embrace the circular economy principle when procuring goods and services and managing waste, and 4) Develop Environmental Management Systems for Offices.

Este informe presenta el proyecto de  Evaluación de los impactos del cambio climático y mapeo de la vulnerabilidad a la inseguridad alimentaria bajo el cambio climático para reforzar la seguridad alimentaria familiar con enfoques de adaptación de los medios de subsistencia. Proporciona recomendaiones, una evaluación del impacto del cambio climático en 16 cuencas y 16 cultivos en el Perú y un análisis de los factores de vulnerabilidad de la seguridad alimentaria de los hogares rurales para el año 2050. 

This technical document provides an indicator-based framework for understanding the economic, social and nutritional contributions of inland capture fisheries and aquaculture and their links to available inland water resources. The framework proposes fourteen initial indicators to represent environmental, economic, social and nutritional dimensions that are based on their ability to be applicable to inland capture fisheries and aquaculture, and that are easy to interpret, robust and applicable at the national as well as regional or local scales.

This fact sheet intends to explain how to promote economic diversification and build resilience. Livelihood and economic diversification (LED) are considered as complementary and valuable tools that can effectively support the mid to long-term transformation of economies at risk. The combination of LED tools reflects an innovative approach for the Adaptation Committee, to address the overall objective of strengthening resilience and decreasing vulnerability over time. 

This analytical document explores how a future international carbon market could link a ‘patchwork’ of different, domestic climate actions. The end-goal is to develop the services and institutions needed to enhance transparency, comparability, and fungibility of heterogeneous climate actions, for a connected international carbon market that is liquid and delivers climate-smart financing efficiently.