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This activity report presents a summary of the UN CC:Learn partnership challenges and successes during 2014 – 2017.  The report outlines the efforts of the UN CC:Learn partnership on upscaling a well established partnership for climate change learning, advancing global climate literacy, and promoting a strategic approach to climate change learning at the national and regional level.

This brochure provides a glance to the work being carried out through the UN CC:Learn partnership, involving more than 30 multilateral organizations. The partners accross the UN system and partner countries promote capacities to ensure continuous and strategic approaches to the provision of knowledge and skills.

The objective of this Technology Executive Committee (TEC) Brief is to outline challenges and needs in the context of energy and material efficiency improvements in industry playing a key role in combatting climate change. Best practices and lessons learned are presented and success factors and the roles of different stakeholders in the process of enhancing industrial energy efficiency are highlighted.

Ce rapport fournit un aperçu des efforts accomplis jusqu’à présent. Il met l’accent sur le fait qu’une direction politique de haut niveau et de nouveaux partenariats seront essentiels pour maintenir l’élan. Il souligne aussi le besoin de données fiables, actualisées, accessibles et ventilées pour mesurer les progrès, informer les décideurs et s’assurer que tout le monde est pris en compte.

This activity report is comprised of 15 country case studies that provide examples of climate action, disaster risk reduction and recovery, and sustainable energy. Each case, efforts have been made to emphasize the integrated approach to these work streams and similarly, the linkages and benefits that each extends to the others.

This activity report provides a series of Regional Briefings is based on the consultations and discussions of the regional National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) workshops held throughout 2016 and 2017 in Sri Lanka, Cote D’Ivoire and Guyana. It aims to provide a brief overview of the NAP experiences of middle-income countries in the regions and sub-Saharan African countries, and highlight emerging issues, challenges and opportunities. The Regional Briefings focus in particular on the countries that participated in the workshops.

This toolkit has been written to help new delegates, in particular from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), navigate the  Conference of the Parties (COP) session. It focuses on the process, rather than the content of negotiations, and offers some practical ‘insider’ tips. Attending UN climate negotiations for the first time is daunting, especially if it’s a COP session. With so many meetings happening in parallel and jargon and acronyms that constantly roll off people’s tongues, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process is notoriously complex. 

This guidance document presents new tools, resources and activities that can help businesses achieve its sustainability goals and find the right UN Global Compact engagement tier. While the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement are universal accords, they will very much be addressed at the national level — where each country will apply their unique history, culture and capabilities.

This pocket book aims to be a supporting tool for a better understanding and application of the language in the UNFCCC negotiations. In the context of the climate change negotiations, the great amount of acronyms, buzzwords and legal terms can be complex, overwhelming and misleading too.

This guidance document gives an outline of the joint  UNDP and UN Environment National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP). The NAP-GSP, together with partners, is assisting developing countries to identify technical, institutional and financial needs to integrate climate change adaptation into medium and long-term national planning and financing. 

This book of impact stories combined with games aims to help people understand some of the terminology and the simple changes we can make now in the way we use energy resources that could make a healthier world for children. Climate change mitigation is central to food security, poor health and income poverty. By supporting access to clean and affordable energy systems and services and promoting low-emission and climate-resilient urban and transport infrastructure, eradication of poverty and a significant reduction in inequalities is supported.

This analytical document captures early observations in engaging the private sector, particularly multinational companies involved in global agricultural commodity supply chains, in the context of emission reductions programs to address land use change. 

This technical document offers guidance and identifying options related to developing scaled-up crediting programs. It focuses on baseline development, in particular how to develop baselines consistent with rules that may arise for international crediting (or other forms of emissions trading or transfers) under the Paris Agreement. In principle, the baseline for a crediting program should represent the GHG emissions that would occur over a specified period of time in the program’s absence, taking into account a range of factors — including domestic policies — that might influence those emissions.

This report illustrates how green industrial policy can be a driver for a green economy transformation and highlights the social, environmental and economic co-benefits of green industrial policy. Economic development in the age of industrialization has been achieved at the cost of severe overexploitation of natural resources. Humanity is approaching various ecological tipping points beyond which abrupt and irreversible environmental change at large geographical scale is likely to happen.

Esta infografía proporciona una introducción a cómo los pueblos indígenas pueden aportar soluciones orientadas a la seguridad alimentaria y el cambio climático desde diferentes áreas, incluyendo: conocimientos tradicionales,  sistemas alimentarios y conservación de la biodiversidad.

This guidance document is expected to transform Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector into a sustainable production system by maximising the climate opportunities and reducing climate change related risks on the agriculture sector. It was designed to provide adequate and effective training on climate change issues to agricultural extension workers, so that they acquire the expertise to impart climate-smart agriculture practices to rural farmers and build resilience to climate change.

This technical document presents methodologies that cover a broad range of different mitigation action types in terms of scale, type of intervention and affected modes. In addition, focus was put on interventions with significant mitigation potential. It provides an overview of approaches on GHG quantification in the transportation sector, followed by a reader guide to the mitigation action sections.

This guidance document includes an assessment of the emissions associated with the Nationally Determined Contributions and current policies of each of the G20 members, including the European Union. This is in addition to presenting an update on global greenhouse gas emissions and national actions to meet the earlier Cancun pledges.

This guidance document shows that livestock products are key to food security. The report indicates that livestock products are also responsible for more greenhouse gases emissions than most other food sources, which are caused by feed production, enteric fermentation, animal waste and land-use change.

This activity report presents the most recent and relevant knowledge, tools and methodologies FAO offers countries to report on their greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture, livestock and forestry sectors.