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This analytical document provides a series of case studies on smart governance, smart people and smart economy, which will catapult successful smart city practices into the global spotlight.

This policy document illustrates how well-designed climate risk insurance – when applied in conjunction with other disaster risk management measures and strategies – can protect people against climate shocks by acting as a safety net and buffer shortly after an extreme weather event.

This toolkit provides practical guidance for making use of the “Indicators of Resilience in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)” in the field. The indicators are a tool for engaging local communities in adaptive management of the landscapes and seascapes in which they live. By using the tested methods presented in this toolkit, communities can increase their capacity to respond to social, economic, and environmental pressures and shocks, to improve their environmental and economic conditions.

This analytical document summarizes the potential role of nuclear power in climate change mitigation and sustainable development, as all low-carbon energy technologies, including nuclear power, are needed to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the rise of global temperatures to below 2°C. 

This guidance document addresses what a sustainable bank looks, by opting for a hands-on, practitioner-oriented format to prioritise action over theory. Banking supervisors and regulators have demonstrated growing awareness of the materiality of sustainability issues, as shown by the establishment of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. 

This technical document presents a compendium of the first set of ITU international standards for  Internet of Things (IoT), providing a resource to standards experts interested in contributing to the work on IoT and Smart Cities and Communities (SC&C). This compendium is also expected to assist the wide variety of stakeholders interested in implementi ng these IoT standards or calling for adherence to standards in policy and regulatory frameworks relevant to IoT. 

This report showcases Dubai’s journey towards becoming a smart city, a venture worthy of emulation by other aspiring smart cities around the world. To assist aspiring smart sustainable cities in their journeys, this case study also derives best practices based on Dubai’s current activities. 

This guidance document provides advice on the evolving concept of Strategic Green Industrial Policy (SGIP) for policy practitioners. It details tools that can be applied to what industrial policymakers may consider to be relatively under-explored territory. And indeed, some of the changes required for a transition to a green economy imply significant restructuring (if not disruption of technological paths). This guide also aims to ease this transition by providing detailed guidance, highlighting a number of changes that are relatively easy to implement.

This report looks into the opportunities and challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also referred to as Industry 4.0, to accelerate the transition towards sustainable energy. Industry 4.0 could contribute to finding new ways of dealing with major global challenges, such as climate change, lack of clean energy access, economic stagnation and reducing the digital divide 

This guidance document focuses on the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA), as it triggers resilient low-carbon development in the dairy sector through the introduction of climate-smart agricultural practices and to bring the dairy production sector of Uganda onto a low carbon and more resilient path. The NAMA focuses on a set of interventions and measures related to policy development, technical assistance, and access to finance that will be integrated within sustainable commercial oriented investment activities that contribute to enhanced agriculture productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, improved food security, and increased incomes.

This activity report addresses the challenges of achieving environmental sustainability and turning the vision of decent work for all into a reality. It shows that not only are both challenges urgent, but they are also intimately linked and will have to be addressed together. While it is certain that environmental degradation and climate change will increasingly require enterprises and labour markets to react and adjust, the goal of environmentally sustainable economies will not be attained without the active contribution of the world of work. 

This activity report provides an update on the activities which unfolded in 2014 and 2015 with the continued support of the Green Jobs Programme’s networks and partners. The Programme aims to promote green job creation and the greening of existing jobs, enterprises and economies, as they are an essential means of achieving sustainable development and providing decent work for all. 

This technical document addresses the negative impacts of climate change on employment and livelihoods and explores how climate-related policy, investment and consumption responses to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change can affect labour markets in their entirety with overall job gains. It stresses the need of accompanying social and economic policies to achieve a just transition for all that leaves no one behind and promotes decent work.

These analytical documents bring together information to provide an overview of countries’ environmental governance and performance, both in terms of achievements and shortcomings. It can be used as a tool to support policymakers and representatives of civil society in their efforts to imrpove environmental management and further promote sustainable development at the country level.

This guidance document explains how smallholder livestock keepers, fisherfolks and pastoralists are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Moreover, 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock supply chains. The main sources of emissions are: feed production and processing and methane from ruminants’ digestion. 

This policy brief identifies policy-makers’ need assistance in identifying risk management options in the agricultural sector that allow them to effectively respond to the climate risks they face, while maintaining and enhancing agricultural policy objectives. Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) approach was developed to provide this assistance and this brief highlights some of the key findings related to risk management from CSA case studies. 

This report aims to facilitate the use of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5) by those concerned with the fisheries and aquaculture sector and their dependent communities. AR5 is condensed from the fisheries and aquaculture perspective, and guiding links to the relevant IPCC documents facilitating further investigation are provided. 

This guidance document introduces agriculture and how it contributes to climate change and is affected by it: meeting growing demand for food through sustainable productivity increases has become a key challenge for agriculture and rural areas. Agriculture and rural development are key to mitigate and adapt to climate change, thereby assuring the persistence of viable and attractive rural livelihoods. In this context, migration can play an important role in increasing the climate resilience of rural economies.

This guidance document explains how  climate change is already hurting the rural poor, damaging infrastructure, depressing crop yields, jeopardizing fish stocks, eroding natural resources and endangering species, causing significant damage to agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and human health. 

This report explores different ways that climate change endangers the lives and futures of children — and shows what can and must take collective action to address these threats. It highlights the safeguarding of children’s access to safe water and sanitation as one of the most effective ways to protect children in the face of climate change.