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This manual aims at introducing concepts, exercises and good practices on disaster preparedness and response to teachers. It is organized around four steps to becoming a disaster risk reduction educator. This teachers’ guide is part of a three-book compendium that also includes a students’ guide, for students aged 11–18, and a parents’ guide. 

This technical document is designed to support national efforts to integrate disaster risk reduction into the school curriculum. It includes a four-stage approach to the curriculum development process. The document builds upon case studies from 30 countries.

This manual presents how a jurisdictional approach to REDD+ can work effectively across land types and engage a broad range of stakeholders. However, working at such a large scale often causes significant challenges in terms of mobilizing technical and human capacity. The study examined eight case studies, which a number of advantages to a jurisdictional approach, these approaches include the alignment of government policies and strategies, the achievement of credible emission reductions, and the realization of efficiencies in programme management.
 
 
 

This manual identifies the current state of sustainable building initiatives in the nine selected countries and the progress of each one in two main technical areas: (1) energy efficiency initiatives for buildings and (2) sustainable building practices. The main public policies, standards, practices and initiatives related to these two topics are gathered and presented in a comparison table that portrays each country´s progress in both subjects.

This technical report includes sections on temperature and rainfall in Southern Africa, South-West Indian Ocean Island Countries, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa and Northern Africa. The report further addresses 2013 extreme weather and climate events on the continent, including: floods and heavy precipitation; tropical cyclones and wind storms; and droughts, heat waves and fires. The data indicates that the year 2013 was one of the warmest in Africa since at least 1950, with temperatures above average in most regions.

This analytical report analyzes how a set of widely promoted agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotations, legume intercropping as well as the use of modern inputs, affect crop yields and their resilience in Zambia using panel data from the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys (RILS). The report provides important insights into the interplay between food security outcomes and climatic variables, and provides policy implications for targeted interventions to improve the productivity and the resilience of smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the face of climate change.

This technical report is a summary of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2014. This document provides new information to affirm that the 1987 international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has successfully resulted in global international policies to reduced levels of ozone-depleting substances.

This manual outlines the challenges of investing in low-carbon and climate-resilient technologies and activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores how guarantees can respond to those challenges and highlights the crucial role national development banks can play in structuring and funding credit-guarantee schemes for their domestic markets. 

This technical report has concluded that ozone layer recovery will occur more rapidly if eliminating the production of the ozone-depleting substance (ODS) hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), and managing other remaining ODSs, are fast-tracked. This report found that phasing out the small remaining uses of ODSs, which are currently exempted from phase-outs, would hasten ozone recovery by about 11 years. 

Este estudio utiliza datos de satélite y del re-análisis, combinados con datos de observaciones en superficie, para generar datos en rejilla de temperatura y precipitación para toda Bolivia, con especial énfasis en las cuencas de las zonas metropolitanas de La Paz y El Alto. Estos datos son validados comparándolos con datos de superficie, que típicamente son datos “puntuales”. Los datos obtenidos cubren el periodo 1979-2010 y fueron ajustados a nivel mensual porque a ese nivel temporal los datos muestran la mayor coherencia espacial y temporal. El análisis de los datos en rejilla, como los datos observacionales, sugiere que el periodo de lluvias en la región se ha acortado y que la intensidad de las precipitaciones se ha incrementado en los últimos 30 años. Los datos también indican que en la región del Altiplano sur la precipitación se ha reducido de manera notable. Es importante recalcar que posiblemente los datos en rejilla no reproduzcan los eventos más extremos observados.

Este documento es el informe del taller Mesoamericano, que tenia como objetivo identificar los vacíos técnicos e institucionales y los pasos necesarios para mejorar las capacidades de los Países Miembros, en relación con los procesos nacionales de reporte de emisiones de GEI. El enfoque está en los componentes de Agricultura y Uso de Tierra, Cambio de Uso de la Tierra y Silvicultura (UTCUTS) de los Informes Bienales de Actualización. Con más de ochenta participantes de quince países diferentes, el taller servio como una plataforma para el intercambio de experiencias entre los países de la región, y ayudo a identificar herramientas útiles para el análisis de datos.

L’objectif de la présente étude, la deuxième consacrée au charbon de bois (après l’étude du secteur réalisée en Ouganda en 2013) est d’amener la Côte d’Ivoire à définir progressivement son futur développement sobre en carbone. La mise en œuvre d’une chaîne de valeur durable permettra d’accroître l’efficacité et l’efficience de la chaîne actuelle et de supprimer l’une des principales causes de la déforestation tout en augmentant la sécurité et la durabilité énergétiques. 

Este estudio aborda cómo el cambio climático afectaría la actividad económica nacional, evaluando las potenciales modificaciones en la disponibilidad de los recursos naturales y las actividades productivas más sensibles a cambios en el clima (agricultura, ganadería altoandina, minería, energía hidroeléctrica, turismo y pesca), tanto en términos físicos como sociales. También se analizan dos sectores transversales, la infraestructura y la salud, que son condicionantes para el desempeño productivo.

This activity report draws on eight case studies to raise awareness of existing institutional arrangements that support adaptation at different governance levels. The report identifies the main challenges those institutions face and highlight key lessons learned from their work and define a set of concrete measures to enhance the effectiveness of institutional arrangements.

This manual aims to facilitate greater access to electricity by rural communities through the provision of climate finance under a National Appropriate Mitigation Action (“NAMA”). The paper describes a model approach to financing the development, implementation and operation of a sector-wide programme for renewable energy rural electrification.

This policy document explores the relationship between climate change and poverty by examining the impact of climate change on 1) poor people’s livelihoods and wellbeing, 2) the risk for non-poor people to fall into poverty and 3) the ability of poor people to escape poverty. The paper concludes that climate change is likely to represent a major obstacle to a sustained eradication of poverty. Climate policies are compatible with poverty reduction by the appropriate set of social policies, and climate change does not modify how poverty policies should be designed, but rather, it creates greater needs and more urgency due to more frequent and more severe shocks and extreme weather events. 

This manual highlights the complementarities and potential trade-offs between REDD+ and adaptation actions. The manual suggests that ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change (EBA) may help to achieve REDD+ objectives. Furthermore, the implementation of REDD+ activities can maintain and enhance ecosystem services that can support societal adaptation, and REDD+ actions may also influence aspects of adaptive capacity. 

This analytical report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and parts of Europe and Central Asia. Building on earlier Turn Down the Heat reports, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day (0.8°C), 2°C and 4°C warming above pre-industrial temperatures on agricultural production, water resources, ecosystem services, and coastal vulnerability for affected populations. Across the three regions studied in this report, record-breaking temperatures are occurring more frequently, rainfall has increased in intensity in some places, while drought-prone regions are getting dryer.

This mannual aims 1) to raise awareness of important roles of genetic resources for food and agriculture against climate change and 2) to contribute to the mainstreaming of genetic resources into climate change adaptation and mitigation planning at national and international levels. Based on several thematic studies, the mannual presents an overview of the complex interactions between climate change and plant, animal, forest, aquatic, invertebrate and micro-organism genetic resources. The manual concludes that if agriculture aims to adapt to climate change and achieve food security and nutrition goals in the coming decades, food production systems and ecosystems need to become more flexible, multifunctional and capable of providing multiple services.

Los efectos del cambio climático sobre Bolivia son de interés tanto científico como político. Para estudiar estos efectos se usó los datos producidos por el modelo climático regional PRECIS para la región de Bolivia. La validación del modelo se realizó comprando los datos observados en superficie a nivel mensual en el periodo 1961-1990, con aquellos obtenidos del modelo. Adicionalmente, se analizaron los valores climatológicos para los periodos 1961-1990 y 2071-2100. El análisis muestra un incremento promedio de 4,4ºC para el territorio boliviano con el máximo incremento en la zona norte del país y en la zona del Altiplano Sur. Los cambios proyectados en temperatura indicarían que el incremento estaría por encima de la variabilidad climática. Por su parte, los resultados sugieren una mayor precipitación en la zona de tierras bajas durante el verano con el consiguiente riesgo de inundaciones. Las características asociadas a los modelos de clima, así como las incertidumbres asociadas a sus proyecciones, hacen que las conclusiones obtenidas en este estudio deban ser tratadas con precaución. Un análisis de varias corridas con condiciones de contorno y condiciones iniciales diferentes, así como estudios de sensibilidad, son recomendables para reducir la incertidumbre en las proyecciones.