Browsing Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies by Topic "Climate Action"
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2024 IDAFLW Social Media
(2024-09)This document feature key messages, key figures as well as shareable tips related to the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2024. -
30 Foresight Briefs: Early Warning, Emerging Issues and Futures - Special Edition 2017-2022
(2023-01)Foresight is a powerful tool for leveraging Humanity´s ability to think about and build the Future. It provides a way to think about possible, alternative and desired futures. By doing so, it enables individuals, organisations ... -
Adaptation Decision-Support Tools and Platforms - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #1
(2020)Key messages: • Decision support for adaptation should be useful (relevant, comprehensive and reliable) and usable (accessible, authoritative, attractive and engaging). • Failure to deliver successful decision support can ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2020 - Key Messages
(2021)2020 was not only the year of the pandemic, it was also the year of record temperatures and growing climate change impacts: floods, droughts, storms, wildfires and locust plagues. Even more worrying is that, based on current ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2023 - Key Messages
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Africa Environment Outlook 2: Our Environment, Our Wealth - Executive Summary
(2006)The dawn of the 21st century stands out as the beginning of a renaissance for Africa – politically, economically and environmentally. The formation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, NEPAD, marked a turning ... -
Appendices - No more hot air … please! With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitments
(2024-10)Appendix A: Supplementary material for Chapter 2 - Global emissions trends. Appendix B: Supplementary material for Chapter 3 - Nationally determined contributions and long-term pledges: The global landscape and G20 member ... -
Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities - Executive Summary
(2021)The Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities is undertaken within the framework of the UNEP Cool Coalition. The objective of the report is to present a comprehensive overview of sustainable urban cooling ... -
Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate - Key Messages
(2021)1. Countries need to deliver on their existing commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land and make similar commitments for marine and coastal areas. 2. Unfortunately, we are still going in the wrong direction. ... -
Blending Water Management and Climate Change Adaptation Approaches
(2022-11)Blending Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is one key vehicle to facilitate taking real action to reduce climate impacts on water and avoid the worst of potential consequences ... -
Blue Carbon – Nationally Determined Contributions Inventory. Appendix to: Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems Opportunities for Nationally Determined Contributions
(2016)This appendix provides an inventory of the existing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ratified National Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ... -
Climate Change 1995 : Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
(1995)This Summary for Policymakers provides an overview of the Working Group's full report. It reviews the developments in our scientific understanding since the first IPCC assessments of impacts and response options in 1990, ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis; Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and ... -
Climate Change Strategy for the Nairobi Convention
(2016)The Climate Change Strategy for the Western Indian Ocean region is an operational framework to foster regional cooperation in addressing the impacts of climate change by assessing the degree of preparedness and the ... -
Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems: Opportunities for Nationally Determined Contributions - Policy Brief
(2016)This policy brief examines the existing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ratified National Determined Contributions (NDCs) with regard to the inclusion of specific efforts addressing blue carbon ... -
Coastal Ecosystem Based Adaptation - Briefing Note 9
(2022-07)Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a strategy for adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change by harnessing nature and the services it can provide. It uses biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt ... -
Cooling and Extreme Heat
(2024-10)In response to the rapid rise in the scale, intensity, frequency and impacts of extreme heat, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently called for an urgent and concerted effort to enhance international cooperation ... -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild Better - Executive Summary
(2020)The Covid-19 pandemic is increasing poverty and threatening food security. Governments around the world have already invested more than $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could ...
