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This analytical document shows that the past year brought a rebound of green energy investments worldwide with a surge of a solid 17% to $270 Billion. Brushing aside the challenge of sharply lower crude oil prices this sudden increase reveresed the investment dip of the past two years and was mainly driven by investments in solar and wind energy.

This guidance document defines challenges such as poverty and climate change and presents the associated opportunities that can be seized to prevent unsustainable development of Africa’s mountain ecosystems. Through use and integration of local and indigenous knowledge, supporting green investments and addressing the multidimensional nature of poverty and food security, these challenges can be surmounted.

This activity report provides the story of the environment and the organization’s work in 2014, through stunning photography and inspirational stories of change from the ground. 

Ce document politique fait l’évaluation de l’industrie verte au Burkina Faso et montre qu’elle reste dans son ensemble embryonnaire : plutôt intensive en main d’œuvre et très peu intensive en technologie. L’étude dresse des recommandations pour une transition réussie vers la résilience aux changements climatiques et vers l’industrie verte. 

This guidance document is a summary of four detailed studies providing new insights on how to promote efficiency in selected priority areas. The report combines energy modelling with a survey of 25 national programmes, to provide an overview of the various benefits associated with improvements in energy efficiency. It is the first study providing comparable country- and sector-specific forecasts of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and macro-economic variables for most G20 countries.

This guidance document aims to present health systems and public health programming to increase their capacity for protecting health in an unstable and changing climate. The document states that by implementing the 10 key components laid out in the framework, health organizations, authorities and programmes would be better able to anticipate, prevent, prepare for and manage climate-related health risks. 

This guidance document reviews a range of strategies and policies for action covering sectors such as urban planning, transport, household energy and building design, food production and consumption, power generation, industry, and waste management. 

This activity report provides an overview of the characteristics and main activities of the projects that are being implemented as part of the second project portfolio of the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. This document consists of 22 projects that are currently implemented in 33 countries across Africa, Asia, Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean. 

This visual resource gives an overview of climate change and food security, highlighting FAO’s mandate to achieve food and nutrition security for all. 

This guidance document features 12 case studies that illustrate that adaptation and poverty reduction are inherently linked and must be addressed simultaneously. The document particularly stresses the importance of capacity building, empowered communities, private sector engagement and support to the development of institutions and policies.

This guidance document has been developed for practitioners in both National Meteorological Services (NMHSs) and National Health Services (NHSs) to outline the issues surrounding the general heat–health problem and present how an understanding of the biometeorology, epidemiology, public-health and risk-communication aspects of heat as a hazard can be used to inform the development of an Heat–Health Warning Systems as part of a wider Heat-Health Action Plan.

This technical document aims to enhance understandings of the El Niño phenomenon using FAO’s Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS). The document presents the result of FAO’s monitoring of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, among other weather-related hazards, with a special focus on the potential impacts on the agricultural sector. 

This activity report summarizes the findings of a jointworkshop held at FAO Headquarters on 13-14 November 2014. It provides information on access and use of FAO data and analysis tools for Agriculture, Forestry, and other Land Use (AFOLU), in support of national reporting processes under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report also highlights country needs for new data and guidance for monitoring, reporting and verification of emerging activities in agriculture, forestry and land use, aimed at combating climate change in coming decades.

This policy instrument collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes the significant consequences of climate change impacts on food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and global food trade. 

This guidance document provides a comprehensive menu of practical tools for integrating gender in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The document emphasizes the importance of integrating gender in CSA practices, which is to reduce gender inequalities and ensure that men and women can equally benefit from any intervention in the agricultural sector to reduce risks linked to climate change.

This activity report summarizes the outcomes of the “Regional Asia-Pacific Workshop on Climate-Smart Agriculture: A call for action,” which was held on 18 to 20 June 2015, in Bangkok, Thailand, with the aim of sharing knowledge and experience on implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) among stakeholders from the Asia-Pacific region.

This visual resource describes when managed sustainably, soils can play an important role in climate change mitigation by storing carbon and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Vietnam by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers. For more information and other country examples, read regional report.

This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Thailand by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers. For more information and other country examples, read regional report.

This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Myanmar by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers. For more information and other country examples, read regional report.