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This analytical document provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including national and subnational initiatives. Furthermore, it gives an overview of current corporate carbon pricing initiatives. Another key focus of the report is on the importance of aligning carbon pricing with the broader policy landscape. The document also provides new modelling analysis to demonstrate the crucial benefits that an international carbon market established under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement could provide in reducing the costs to countries of achieving their emission reduction targets. 

This guidance document outlines key types of support developing countries will require to effectively implement and report on their agricultural sector commitments, and ultimately scale up ambition in the coming years. This document is an accompaniment to the FAO study, the Agricultural Sectors in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs): Analysis. 

This analytical document provides an overview on how the agriculture sectors have been included in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and/or their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the UNFCCC. It outlines mitigation contributions with a particular focus on agriculture and land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF), vulnerabilities under climate change and priority areas and/or activities for adaptation in the agriculture sectors.

Furthermore, this report summarizes information provided in the INDCs/ NDCs on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), mitigation-adaptation co-benefits and how countries have developed their INDCs and are planning to implement their NDCs. The aim of this analysis is to provide a basis for identifying priorities for international support for climate action in the agriculture sectors.

This technical document highlights the potential need for targeted support to countries to implement key thematic areas. This analysis will enable governments, and the organizations that support them, to focus their efforts on supporting those thematic areas that will have the most impact in accelerating progress in implementing NBSAP actions. Furthermore, because NBSAPs are adopted as policy instruments, they provide a ready pathway for fast implementation of national sustainable development goals.

This guidance document is designed to help national decision makers better understand the components of Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) and how they can be bolstered by the principles and methods of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The document also aims to provide guidance on engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders, establishing cross-sector partnerships, and mobilizing technical and financial support for ACE.  

This comic book aims to leverage the universal visual language and transformative power of comics to educate people in every corner of the globe about the SDG 13, on climate action, and empower them to create positive and lasting change in their own communities and worldwide.

This analytical document highlights how 2016 is very likely to be the world’s hottest year on record. Global temperatures for January to September 2016 have been 0.88 °C (1.58 °F) above the average for the 1961-90 reference period and approximately 1.2°C above those of the pre-industrial period. Preliminary data for October indicate that temperatures are continuing to be at a sufficiently high level to remain well above the 0.77 °C (1.39 °F) annual value set in 2015.

This resolutions shows that the Council has addressed the issue of the impact of climate change in the framework of its work on human rights and the environment.  

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This activity report presents a full-day discussion on specific themes related to human rights and climate change, which was held on 6 March 2015 during the 28th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) pursuant to resolution 26/27. Two panel discussions took place. 

The resolution called for one panel discussion on identifying challenges and ways forward towards the realization of all human rights for all, including the right to development, in particular those in vulnerable situations, as well as the measures and best practices to promote and protect human rights that can be adopted by States in addressing the adverse effects of climate change on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights, and another panel discussion on how climate change has had an adverse impact on States’ efforts to progressively realize the right to food, and policies, lessons learned and good practices.

This technical document explains that, according to the sources reviewed, human rights obligations relating to the environment include: 1) procedural obligations of States to assess environmental impacts on human rights and to make environmental information public, to facilitate participation in environmental decision-making, and to provide access to remedies for environmental harm; 2) substantive obligations of States to adopt legal and institutional frameworks that protect against environmental harm that interferes with the enjoyment of human rights, including harm caused by private actors; and 3) non-discrimination and other obligations of States relating to the protection of members of groups in vulnerable situations, including women, children and indigenous peoples.

This policy document describes the increasing attention paid to the relationship between climate change and human rights in recent years, reviews the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and outlines the application of human rights obligations to climate-related actions. The document also explains that States have procedural and substantive obligations relating to climate change, as well as duties to protect the rights of the most vulnerable.

This brief states that to meet human rights obligations, states should act now, with stronger laws, more effective regulation of the private sector, judicial protections, carbon taxes and other meaningful adjustments to incentive structures, and, in general, deliberate action by all states, acting individually and collectively, to address climate change. 

This brief shows the comments of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on the entry into force on 4 November of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. 

This submission highlights some key entry points for human rights integration in implementation of the Paris Agreement including in the processes and mechanisms outlined for measurement, reporting and verification. 

This submission shows that OHCHR’s emphasis on the capacity-building in the area of human rights and climate change. 

This submission shows OHCHR’s emphasis on the importance of promoting and protecting women’s human rights and gender equality in all climate action, including at the UNFCCC.  

This submission draws on findings and conclusions of the Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to the thirty-second session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), Analytical study on the relationship between climate change and the human right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, 6 May 2016, A/HRC/32/23.

This analytical document presents that OHCHR organized a panel discussion on the impacts of climate change on the right to health during the 31st Session of the Human Rights Council. The panel discussion was moderated by H.E. Mr. Trung Thanh Nguyen, Permanent Representative of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. The concept note for the discussion and statements of the participants are available below as well as a summary report of the discussion.

This toolkit aims to introduce the topic of climate change and adaptation in eight activity-based and interactive units to primary school teachers and students in Grenada. The Grenadian-German Programme “Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies” (ICCAS) introduced the toolkit to 49 primary schools in the small island state and is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

The toolkit consists of a teacher manual, a worksheet collection, student passports, stickers and posters. Grenadian illustrator Stacey Byer developed child-friendly images for each unit. To date, 400 posters and 900 student passports including sticker sets were delivered to primary schools.

This brief gives an overview of Resilience Pathways Model (RPM), which is a tool designed to help countries integrate resilience planning across multiple sectors of their hard and soft infrastructure. The model also provides a framework to advise and provide strategic guidance on delivering against the key global policy frameworks in an integrated and cohesive way.