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This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Laos PDR by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers. For more information and other country examples, read regional report. 

This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Cambodia by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers. For more information and other country examples, read regional report. 

This policy document summarizes highlights from the studies in forests and forestry across the Greater Mekong Subregion. For more information, read regional report.

This analytical document presents a comparative overview of the Greater Mekong Subregion countries, drawing on the five country reports as well as other relevant regional information. 

For summary report, read Policy Brief. 

For five country reports, read: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. 

The activity report includes: the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) response to Conference of the Parties (COP) guidance, including relevant COP 20 decisions and conclusions of the 41st and 42nd sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI); GEF initiatives; and GEF achievements, including in the areas of support to intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer, and enabling activities and capacity building.
 

This guidance document supports the efforts of developing countries in the identification, development and implementation of country specific mitigation actions in the context of national sustainable development. 

This technical document provides an overview of the stages of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) processes, of the process and criteria of selecting indicators, and of classification of indicators. This document also reviews nine challenges to M&E, including replicability, the balance between efficiency and effectiveness, and choosing an appropriate timeframe and period for evaluation.

This analytical report finds that up to 10 billion tonnes of urban solid wastes are produced globally each year, and 3 billion people lack access to controlled waste disposal facilities. The document projects that, unless urgent action is taken, waste volumes will double in lower-income African and Asian cities by 2030 due to population growth and rising urbanization and consumption.

This activity report focuses on mitigation action, technology development and transfer requested by decision 18/CP.20. The workshop was held in Bonn, Germany, on 8 and 9 June 2015, during the forty-second sessions of the subsidiary bodies. 

This activity report presents achievement of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from last year and tells the story of the 12 winners of the 2014 Momentum for Change Award in an engaging and creative way. Access to the report here: http://unfccc.int/mfc2014/

This guidance document offers practical questions, actions, tools and resources for integrating gender into climate change and disaster risk reduction interventions. It is designed to be an easily accessible entry point for practitioners. 

This policy report focuses primarily on domestic carbon-pricing mechanisms that put an explicit price on greenhouse gas emissions, whether through taxes on the carbon content of fuels or emissions or similar emissions trading systems. 

This analytical document gives the audience a forward-looking assessment of the advantages of international cooperation in reaching stringent global mitigation targets. A review of existing modeling work provides a qualitative and quantitative assessment of cost saving potentials and the magnitude of financial flows inherent to international cooperation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a level consistent with the 2°C climate stabilization goal.

This analytical document aims to identify inefficiencies and corrupt practices in the process to apply and obtain forest licenses. The evaluation is based on quantitative and qualitative data collected from 116 service users and 44 service providers.

This analytical document presents the overall target of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) to support Vanuatu in achieving the goal defined in the National Energy Road Map (NERM), namely to provide all households access to electricity in Vanuatu. 

This guidance document assesses how soft commodity risk policies by banks and investors could potentially benefit countries to achieve reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) based on an analysis of risk policies from a range of financial institutions. To read the analytical report by UNEP, click here. 

This analytical document highlights policies that banks and investors can adopt to help reduce deforestation and forest degradation risks resulting from unsustainable practices across agricultural supply chains. There is a policy brief by UN-REDD as well. 

This analytical document presents objectives of the NAMA to support Cambodia´s energy efficiency policy, to improve efficiency in the industrial sector and to build capacity in the field of energy efficiency. The document states that the introduction of efficient sewing, washing, drying machines and compressors will improve energy efficiency in motor driven systems and will decrease greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of electricity.

This analytical document suggests that while the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been successful with mitigating the impacts of large-scale industrial projects, small-scale community-based projects, such as those in the waste management sector have been overlooked due to their low mitigation potential.
The document’s contents are based on discussions held at a side event ‘Quantifying and monetizing NAMA co-benefits,’ which took place on the margins of the Bonn Climate Change Conference on 7 June 2014.

This guidance document provides a framework for defining adaptation gaps and a preliminary assessment of the gap between adaptation needs and reality. It proposes an approach for identifying and assessing the current state and action in key adaptation areas, and comparing these with the potential now, and in the future, for additional adaptation to reduce risks.