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This guidance document aims to provide an expanded understanding of the UNOPS Resilience Pathways Model (RPM) as it applies within the development and humanitarian contexts. While the issue of resilience is not new, the RPM represents a unique approach to addressing resilience within the context of all major global frameworks and in particular the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

This brief shows that the effects of climate change are increasingly apparent in many Sahel countries. Relief efforts during crises and in response to everyday deprivation have been largely led by outside actors. However, many Sahel governments have now adopted national strategies for social protection, providing new opportunity for them to establish basic guarantees and incorporate lessons from neighbouring countries on addressing climate-related risks.

This brief shows that in China, there are big efforts to combat deforestation, with logging and other restrictions placed on large swaths of land. Nearly a million workers in state-owned forest enterprises lost their jobs at the turn of the century, but got help with job training and placement services. Other rural residents received cash to perform conservation activities, and the country was able to reforest nearly 27 million hectares of former farmland and deforested areas.

This brief presents that in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines’ Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (DILEEP) provided emergency employment opportunities to affected populations, and affiliated participants to several social insurance schemes. Nearly 80,000 programme participants received immediate relief after the typhoon struck in 2013, and were enrolled in the national health and employment injury insurance schemes.

This brief presents that in Egypt, spending on fuel subsidies was a drain on public finances with benefits skewing toward the rich and exacerbating inequalities. The document also shows that subsidies were reduced to balance the budget and target wasteful consumption and emissions. 

This brief shows that Brazil’s invaluable rainforests have dwindled in recent decades, as agriculture and other development have moved in. The document suggests that development opportunities are crucial for many rural populations who continue to live in poverty, and the Government is attempting to address poverty and threats to the environment together through a new social protection programme.

This brochure gives an overview of ILO activities in facilitating the transition to a greener economy and creation of more green jobs. The document shows that ILO promotes skills for green jobs through the publication of policy documents, development tools and guides, research work, as well as capacity building activities. It works on the global and local levels. 

This guidance document summarizes all COP guidance dating from the first COP to COP 21 and the corresponding GEF responses. The goal of this publication is to provide full documentation of the evolution of GEF activities and policies as informed by guidance from the COP. 

This guidance document presents that making our societies and economies more sustainable and less inequitable is not just to avoid disaster, but to build lasting prosperity.  The document also suggests that it is urgent to bring about transformations in key economic systems, from energy, cities and food to the “take-make-waste” economy, and leverage evidence and new information technology, political leadership, coalitions for change and innovation.

This guidance document provides a tool for local policy-makers and major stakeholders with a methodology to plan for climate change. These plans must address both mitigation (e.g., reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) and adaptation (responding to the impacts of climate change). If they are to be effective, local plans for climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) require the involvement of a variety of stakeholders and a specific focus on the most vulnerable groups.

This analytical document is addressed primarily to decision-makers and stakeholders in the Global South engaged in developing national climate change policies. Such policies in the present context are high-level documents that set forth in a consolidated manner a country’s approach both to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change. This document seeks to help those teams how to deal with climate change in urban areas, and to empower local authorities as key actors in that effort.

This technical document discusses how observed and projected impacts of climate change have implications for the enjoyment of human rights and for the obligations of States under international human rights law. 

This analytical documents provides a tool for government and other stakeholders that can assist with achieving more sustainable urban development. It facilitates an enabling environment that allows stakeholders to take advantage of urban opportunity. How to address climate change in cities and human settlements represents one of the most pressing challenges facing urban policy-makers today. It recommends how to mainstream such considerations into National Urban Policy, thus helping to empower national governments, local governments, and other stakeholders to effectively address climate change.

This guidance document exposes the Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI), which supports cities in emerging and developing countries to address climate challenge. The Initiative supports cities responding to the negative impact of climate change that is already being felt worldwide, and to put in place appropriate mitigation measures. CCCI places emphasis on participatory processes, sound analysis, sustainable urban planning, good governance, responsive leadership, and practical initiatives at all levels.

This guidance document suggests that human rights-based approach should be integrated in any climate change adaptation or mitigation measures, such as the promotion of alternative energy sources, forest conservation or tree-planting projects, resettlement schemes and others. Focusing on the rights of those who are already vulnerable and marginalized due to poverty and discrimination, a human rights-based approach to climate change can be a useful tool to complement international efforts aimed at tackling the adverse effects of global warming.

This policy document highlights the essential obligations and responsibilities of States and other duty-bearers (including businesses) and their implications for climate change-related agreements, policies, and actions. The document suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action, including agreements to be negotiated at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 

This document was submitted by OHCHR to the 21st Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC, 27 November 2015.

This brief highlight the essential obligations and responsibilities of States and other duty-bearers (including businesses) and their implications for climate change-related agreements, policies, and actions. The brief suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action.

This resolution presents that the Council urged Parties to integrate human rights in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and called for a panel discussion on the adverse impact of climate change on the rights of the child to be held in the 34th session.

This resolution presents that the Council emphasized the urgent importance of continuing to address the adverse consequences of climate change for all and called for a panel discussion and analytical study on the impacts of climate change on the enjoyment of the right to health.

This resolution shows that the Council emphasized the need for all States to enhance international dialogue and cooperation to address the adverse impacts of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights including the right to development. The council called for dialogue, capacity-building, mobilization of financial resources, technology transfer, and other forms of cooperation to facilitate climate change adaptation and mitigation, in order to meet the special needs and circumstances of developing countries.