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This resolution shows that the Council affirmed human rights obligations, standards, and principles have the potential to inform and strengthen international and national policy-making in the area of climate change, promoting policy coherence, legitimacy, and sustainable outcomes.

This resolution presents that the Council noted “climate change-related impacts have a range of implications, both direct and indirect, for the effective enjoyment of human rights …” and that such effects “will be felt most acutely by those segments of the population who are already in a vulnerable situation.” 

This resolution shows the Council expressed concern that climate change “poses an immediate and far-reaching threat to people and communities around the world” and requested the OHCHR to prepare a study on the relationship between climate change and human rights.

This visual resource presents guidelines, policy, terminology, technical requirements and examples of the project nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH), which are particularly useful for building professionals. 

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This visual resource presents guidelines, policy, terminology and technical requirements of the project nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH) which are useful for hoteliers.   

English, Croatian, French, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

This brochure introduces a project “nearly Zero Energy Hotels” (neZEH), which is co-funded by the European Commission in the frame of the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme, aiming to accelerate the rate of large scale renovations of hotels into nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) by providing technical advice to committed hoteliers and demonstrating flagship nZEB projects in the European hospitality sector.

This guidance document gives an overview of the initiative Nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH), which aims to support the European accommodation industry in accelerating the rate of refurbishment of existing buildings into Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB), providing technical advice to hoteliers for NZEB renovations, demonstrating the sustainability of such projects and challenging further large scale renovations through capacity building activities, showcasing best practices and promoting the front runners. 

This policy document outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action in the Sendai Framework to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster reduction for resilience and; (iv) Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.

The Sendai Framework aims to achieve the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries over the next 15 years.

The Framework was adopted at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, on March 18, 2015.

This technical document analyzes the impact of two hurricanes and a tropical storm that affected Belize in order to identify some key vulnerabilities in the power system to extreme weather, which is likely to be exacerbated due to climate change. By addressing these weaknesses, Belize can significantly enhance its energy resilience and adaptive capacity. 

This brief states that there is widespread confusion about the linkages between human-induced climate change and extreme weather, and this is an issue of communication as well as of science. This brief reviews these issues, advancements in event attribution science, and offers suggestions for improvement in communication.

This video provides basic background about rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases. 

This technical document is part of an annual series published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the status of the global climate. It provides key results and information on regional climate features for each year.

This activity report includes a concise Information Paper that provides recommendations to the IPCC for the Sixth Assessment Cycle, in particular to the leadership of Working Groups I and II. This report also contains summaries of the discussions in the plenary sessions and in the breakout groups. It further includes the abstracts of the keynote and perspective presentations as well as the poster abstracts presented during the Workshop.

This activity report presents the proceedings and recommendations from the Expert Meeting on the future of the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA) which was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 26 – 27 January 2016. The purpose of the meeting was to obtain input from relevant experts on the future role of TGICA in relation to the needs of the IPCC and in the context of an evolving landscape of climate change related data and scenario provision. The meeting was attended by 57 invited experts from a wide range of organizations and countries.

This activity report summarizes the discussions at the Expert Meeting, which yielded recommendations to the IPCC on how it could build on the advances it has already made in communication to ensure that its assessments are clear, accessible, actionable and relevant to all its stakeholders.

This guidance document presents how to promote gender equality across all levels of policy and programming in climate change and to provide them with the necessary tools to do so. The document also provides tangible examples taken from UNDP’s work with gender mainstreaming (GM) in Bhutan and Cambodia. 

This activity report shows existing good practices and recommendations provided in scoping study report finalized in August 2013. As part of this work, multi-sectorial and stakeholder dialogues were also undertaken within country-specific case studies in Cambodia (September 2013),  Sri Lanka (October 2013) and Philippines (March 2014).  

This guidance document highlights grassroots women’s innovations that build community resilience to disasters. 

This activity report presents experiences and examples taken from the UNDP-GEF Community-Based Adaptation Programme which are being piloted throughout the world. The report is useful for any community-based practitioners who wish to review successful cases of gender mainstreaming in community-based adaptation projects.  

This guidance document presents that employment, social protection, social dialogue and workers’ rights need to be an integral part of any policy in pursuit of sustainable development, including with regard to climate change.