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The booklet sets out an analytical framework for understanding the water-energy-food security nexus in the Arab region and considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a view to mitigating climate change and ensuring access to food, water and sustainable energy for all. 

The guidance document addresses the challenges of rural energy enterprises in developing countries, and sets out solutions such as cooking energy service parameters. The document also explains the AIREC cooking energy service decision support tool and the performance assessments of various cooking energy technologies. It also identifies the importance of biomass as a potential alternative to fossil fuels, and of many other petrochemicals depending on local resources and community needs.

This activity report presents the project “Enhancing and Improving Access to Energy Services through Development of Public-Private Renewable Energy Partnerships.” The report examines seven Jordanian case studies on renewable energy public-private partnerships (RE/PPPs) in different regions/areas based on economic and social conditions.

The guidance document provides an overview of energy security from various perspectives and in line with sustainable development, with objective to consolidate a common energy security concept for the Arab region. The document addresses factors such as geographical distribution of natural energy resources, energy systems, strategies, policies, infrastructure, geopolitical impacts, and national need, and lists recommendations for improving regional cooperation for energy security.

The study analyzes the current state of the energy sector and the roles of relevant institutions. It further addresses reciprocal effects between global energy market and Arab energy cooperation for energy security. 

This guidance document presents an analytical framework and a series of case studies for understanding the water-energy-food security nexus in the Arab region. The analytical framework considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security through the lens of sustainable development and the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to mitigating climate change and ensuring access to food, water and sustainable energy for all in the context of a human-rights approach.

This analytical report presents past trends in domestic energy policy in the Arab region and the capacity of today’s policies and institutions to reverse current unsustainable production and consumption patterns, and meet development and energy security needs. The report also contains recommendations for more effective policies and greater regional cooperation on the development of sustainable energy systems.

This activity report examines progress on securing human dignity and well-being in the Arab countries and what is needed to achieve sustainable development in this region in turmoil. It also looks at the complex factors shaping the region: the occupation of Palestinian and other Arab lands; ongoing conflicts; governance, human rights and institutional deficits; and shortcomings in terms of financing, science and technology, trade and statistical capacity.

The report stresses that urgent action is needed at the national and regional levels, and that integrated, long-term and evidence-based planning and investments that address the root causes of instability in the region are indispensable for achieving the SDGs.

This guidance document aims to summarise the current state of knowledge on the impacts of climate change on food security and nutrition. Among the most significant impacts of climate change is the potential increase of food insecurity and malnutrition.  Climate change will act as a hunger risk multiplier exacerbating current vulnerabilities, with one study projecting up to 20% more people at risk of hunger.

This activity report showcases how WFP implements concrete disaster risk reduction activities, as natural disasters are a leading cause of hunger. Disasters affect the economic and physical access to food, the availability and stability of supplies, and nutrition.

This guidance document rpovides a statement on the rainfall season over the equatorial sector of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region, duirng the October to December 2016 season. Key factors expected to influence the regional climate during the OND 2016 season include the evolution of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies over the tropical Oceans. 

This bulletin reports on the atmospheric burdens and rates of change of the most important long-lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs) – carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, CFC-12 and CFC-11 – and provides a summary of the contributions of the other gases.

This analytical document intends to focus on the importance for the Asia-Pacific region to adopt a development model that relies more on domestic and regional demand that, among other things, nurtures inclusiveness, equality and social stability. This comes as the centre of economic gravity is continuing to move eastwards.

This activity report provides an overview of the state of disaster resilience in Asia-Pacific region, and places disaster risk reduction at the heart of sustainable development. It identifies emerging new risks in the region and the sectors that are most at risk. The report identifies several neglected areas of disaster risk reduction that need to be addressed urgently.

This activity report explores ways to adapt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to the unique circumstances, capacities and levels of development of the Asia-Pacific least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, collectively referred to as countries with special needs (CSN).

This guidance document focuses on drawing lessons from a few transition experiences in order to analyse how successfully (or not) these processes were managed in the past and how future transitions might be handled in a just manner. Challenges such as policy coherence, consultations and participation by all relevant stakeholders are addressed and lessons learned on these issues are highlighted.

This guidance document focuses on a number of areas that are at the heart of rural economies and could be engines for a sustainable economic transformation and green jobs creation. Greening the rural economy is central to increasing decent employment opportunities, enhancing resource and labour productivity, and fostering poverty eradication and social inclusion.

This activity report provides an overview of international experiences that combine social and environmental objectives within one programme and extract some lessons learned from existing Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes that may be useful when designing, implementing and monitoring social protection programmes such as the Bolsa Verde programme.

This guidance document provides an overview on: the evolving contribution of business to the sustainable development debate; planetary boundaries, environmental challenges and their implications for business; the greening of enterprises and workplaces, and; the role that business and employers’ organizations can play in lobbying and service development in the environmental field.

This analytical document explains the underlying mechanisms of the impact of climate change through altered thermal conditions in the workplace, shows examples of the current and likely future impacts and provides indications of policy response options to these challenges. 

This guidance document serves as a policy framework and a practical tool to help countries at all levels of development manage the transition to low-carbon economies and can also help them achieve their INDCs and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The Guidelines are designed to create decent work on a large scale and ensure that social protection exists where needed.