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This analytical document investigates whether cash transfers enable households facing weather and other negative shocks to avoid coping strategies that lead to poverty traps.

This manual is intended to serve as a guide for conducting measurements for estimation of carbon stocks in afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism. The manual brings together comprehensive guidance on forest inventory designs and field measurement procedures.

This analytical report analyses disaster risk management and shows that sustainable development cannot be achieved without reducing disaster risk. The report estimates that economic losses from disasters can amount to US$250-300 billion each year. The report also estimates that an annual investment of US$6 billion in disaster risk management would generate US$360 billion over the next 15 years through avoided losses.

Please access here for the full report and fact sheets. 

This manual demonstrates, through contributions from leading authors, how environmental risk factors such as pollution, chemical contamination and climate change will bring diseases and death. It further emphasizes the importance of reducing environmental threats in order to improve human health. 

This technical document is directed towards exploring the extent to which African countries can contribute to closing the adaptation gap, in order to better understand the gap in the resources and the fact that international climate finance must be urgently raised, leveraged and deployed in service of Africa’s pressing adaptation needs. The analysis in this report points to a number of governance-related issues that can be classified under two main headings: continental and domestic. 

This technical document highlights how spatial analysis and land-use modelling can help in understanding the potential impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems services of policy options for achieving REDD+ objectives. The analyses in Brazil are used to illustrate the report’s main points.

This activity report highlights a way of assessing the skills and training needs for a country to design and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).  The 2015 edition focuses on “How Countries Can Identify the Gap” and introduces the skills assessment framework for NAPs.  The 2017 edition delves deeper into the skills assessment framework by explaining the individual skills identified and further introduces “A New and Interactive Methodology”.

This technical document aims to show economic and scientific research that explores the interactions between climate change, climate policies and development. It also aims to promote debate and broaden understanding of current and emerging questions about the climate-development nexus through evidence-based analysis. 

This Resource Guide for Advanced Learning provides a selection of learning resources on REDD+, mostly drawn from within the UN System. The guide is organized into two parts. Part I provides basic orientation for readers, including a brief introduction to the subject area and an outline of the specific learning topics covered. Part II lists available written learning resources as well as a number of training courses currently being offered, organized by learning topic. An Annex containing a list of non-UN learning resources concludes the Guide. This guide is part of a series of developed through UN CC:Learn to facilitate access to existing state-of-the-art materials relevant for climate change learning on particular topics.

This technical document aims to provide decision makers and technical advisers with insights into a broad range of spatial analyses. This analysis can contribute to identifying areas where synergies can be achieved for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity conservation.

This technical document provides examples showing how multiple benefits can be incorporated into spatial planning for REDD+ at the national level in the specific case of Vietnam. Mapping the potential for multiple benefits, such as biodiversity conservation value, can help in REDD+ planning, informing the selection of locations for REDD+ activities.

Vietnamese version available here.

This technical document presents selected results of spatial analysis to explore how spatial data can be used to inform where REDD+ could also help to meet the Philippines’ biodiversity conservation targets under the conversation on biological diversity.

This technical document aims to promote the preparations for REDD+ in Peru, by highlighting some of the potential benefits that can be achieved through REDD+ actions, in addition to the primary aim of climate change mitigation. It presents the results of spatial analyses that can assist decision-makers in planning for REDD+ in a way that generates multiple benefits, and explores the possible contributions that REDD+ can make to the achievement of other policy goals such as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the objectives of Peru’s National Climate Change Strategy.

This technical document contains the political and institutional context of member countries of the Commission for Central African Forests. Relevant spatial data is introduced, as well as ways to analyse it for the joint implementation of these two international commitments. This contribution of spatial analysis is then explored in more detail for three main types of REDD+ actions relevant to the sub-region: REDD+ actions for the conservation of forests, REDD+ actions for sustainable forest management and REDD+ actions for reforestation and forest restoration.

This technical document examines steps in the REDD+ planning process that can support the delivery of multiple benefits in Uganda. The document also discusses the importance of identifying potential benefits and risks in designing REDD+ interventions and country approaches to safeguards. It also highlights the potential for synergies between REDD+, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the National Biodiversity Action Plan. Using example maps for Uganda, the report illustrates how spatial analysis can support REDD+ planning.

This activity report synthesizes activities undertaken in support of capacity-building framework in developing countries.  The report also provides an overview of the information submitted by parties on capacity-building, as reported through national communications (NCs), biennial update reports (BURs), biennial reports and various other annual submissions. 

This manual report focuses on the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiatives in Agriculture (AMIA) that are designed for a rice cultivation sector. This sector is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and commonly associated with food security. The report shows that introduction of Alternative Wetting and Drying in irrigated rice fields could achieve substantial emission reductions by 2020. 

This manual emphasizes the importance of integration, universality, climate change mitigation, governance and accountability, and financing. It also shows that linking the SDGs with climate change mitigation will help countries build energy-efficient, low-carbon infrastructure and achieve sustainable development. 

This policy document aims to help individuals interested in a green economy to acquire better understandings of relevant trade rules. The document also seeks to increase coordination and reduce tension between the international trade and environment agendas in order to open new pathways to achieve sustainable development. Climate change is one important topic adressed in the document.

This activity report is about the fourth and last session of the structured expert dialogue (SED) on the 2013-2015 review. This final report will serve as input to the work of the Joint Contact Group on the 2013-2015 review when it meets in June 2015, during the 42nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies.