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This video provides an overview of WFP’s and Oxfam America’s R4 Initiative, a comprehensive risk management approach that helps vulnerable rural households increase their food and income security in the face of increasing climate risks.

This video explaons how climate disasters hit the poorest people the hardest. It’s estimated that by 2050, climate shocks could increase hunger and child malnutrition by 20 percent. As world leaders gather in Paris for climate talks, WFP and partners unveil FoodSECuRE, a forecast-based approach which would transform the humanitarian system. This new approach will release funds for disaster preparedness and response before the crisis occurs while providing the necessary funds for resilience building activities. 

This video focuses on how some vulnerable countries do not have adequate information to manage climate risks. CLimate servics aims to provide suitable climate information to governments, communities and individuals so that they can take better decisions to increase their food security and resilience.

This guidance document showcases how climate services intend to help vulnerable communities address these challenges by providing the information they need to make well-informed decisions. The emphasis is on providing services or advice, which are tailored to people’s specific needs by being: timely, easy to access, easy to understand, and packaged in a way that can trigger action. 

This video highlights air pollution as the world’s largest environmental health risk. It damages ecosystems and biodiversity and decreases agricultural crop yields. In 1979, UNECE member States agreed to reduce their emissions to atmosphere, signing the first international treaty to deal with air pollution on a broad regional basis. Improving air quality benefits our health, economy and environment – including our climate.

This video focuses on the importance of green economy in sustainable development. It’s about shifting to a new economic paradigm, which boosts prosperity and human well-being, increases access to renewable energy, improves food security and air quality while also combatting climate change. At the 8th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference in Batumi (2016), leaders endorsed a Strategic Framework and launched the Batumi Initiative on Green Economy (BIG-E), in support of countries’ efforts to green their economy and stop climate change.

This guidance document is designed to strengthen the capacity of national government staff and assist them in integrating gender equality into the development of National Communications (NCs). It is recognized that NC reporting processes can be a meaningful entry point for training, awareness-raising and capacity-building efforts. This toolkit can support Biennial Update Reports and planning documents such as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and inform the development and/or implementation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), national and sectoral Gender and Climate Change Plans, and the strategic plans of individual government agencies.

This analytical document is based on a study of gender-responsive adaptation approaches being implemented in six countries.  It targets adaptation practitioners and decision-makers at all levels (from community to global) who are designing new adaptation initiatives and/or developing new climate change-related policies.  It provides a framework in which to examine concrete examples of gender-responsive approaches and how they can lead to greater adaptation impact.  It also makes the argument not only for the need for integrated approaches to gender and climate change but more importantly, to identify what inputs, resources and partnerships are needed to pursue them effectively. 

This activity report is in part based on a set of key messages crafted from the work of a technical workshop featuring the involvement of experts from across the aid and financing worlds. Elaborating on some of these messages, this report is designed to influence state actors, development finance practitioners and private sector stakeholders. Data and examples are used throughout for emphasis, but this report is not a comprehensive analysis of the various risks, and the requirements, for building resilience. It does however make the case that better risk management and the building of resilience are imperative for sustainable development.

This analytical document is based on a survey conducted to assess capacity development support needs among developing countries as they prepare for implementation of the Paris Agreement and, in particular, their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The survey addressed countries’ progress on NDC implementation planning, as well as capacity development or technical assistance needs related to NDC implementation. 

This resource offers recipes from six least developed countries and small island developing states (Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Haiti, Mali, Niger and Sudan) to strengthen climate resilience and enhance food security. It intends to highlight how climate change is impacting specific ingredients and recipes, and how each country’s adaptation efforts are changing the ingredients and cooking methods traditionally used.

This activity report highlights how UNDP’s partnership with environmental vertical funds has helped to transform markets, empower and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities, and build the capacity of countries to safeguard their natural capital as the foundation of sustainable development. 

This toolkit provides source of information on climate change for schoolchildren helping them learn how to protect our planet. The main objective of the Climate Box is to provide school kids with important information on issues related to global climate change in an interesting, attractive and entertaining way.

This activity report recognizes the increasing urgency of mainstreaming climate change into sustainable development planning at all levels, linking development policies with the financing of solutions and helping countries move towards less carbon intensive economies. The Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) approach recommends a baseline of information at the LME management scale on changing states of productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, and socioeconomic and governance conditions. 

This guidance document is based on examples from Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) projects of the GEF Small Grants Programme implemented by UNDP and aims to guide practitioners in developing CBA projects from design to implementation. It includes recommendations on country entry points, roles and responsibilities of multi-level stakeholders, financial management, use of methodologies, applying the Theory of Change (ToC) and more.

This guidance document identifies nine key steps or stages that countries will need to consider as they prepare for implementation of their current and future Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The checklist is intended to be used by governments to guide national conversations around the topic of NDC implementation, moving from planning to action. 

This activity report emphasizes successes and notes the opportunities that climate action presents for countries as they transition their economies towards zero-carbon and climate-resilient sustainable development, as countries begin to take concrete action to deliver on their national climate goals. In this report, is a special focus on the linkages between climate change and sustainable development. 

This web platform provides a database on aviation alternative fuels developments is made available to the aviation community. This includes up-to-date news and announcements, as well as descriptions of ongoing initiatives, reference documentation and educational material.

This activity report provides key considerations of financing sustainable development, outlines the financing requirements, discusses resource mobilization issues,  presents ways in which capital markets can be broadened and deepened in the region, deals with financial inclusion and section, describes how to leverage public-private partnerships, illustrates innovations in climate finance, provides ways to mobilize external resources, highlights the importance of trade finance, and emphasizes the importance of SouthSouth and triangular development cooperation.

This analytical document, targeted to policymakers, intends to explain how to identify appropriate paths to diversification. The map of products of each of the 12 Asian LLDCs suggests sets of potential new products for consideration. Countries with no access to the sea must conduct their trade through neighbouring countries, which results in added costs.