Browsing Discussion Papers, Concepts and Proposals by Title
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Fishing for Climate Resilience: Empowering Vulnerable, Fisheries Dependent Communities Adopt Ecosystem-based-adaptation Measures to Secure Food and Livelihoods
(2019)The project will empower vulnerable, fisheries dependent communities across Indonesia, the Philippines and Micronesia to identify and adopt ecosystem-based-adaptation (EbA) measures to restore and sustain small-scale ... -
Food and Land Use System Transformation
(2019)Governments, including ministries of finance and planning, will work together on the transformation agenda for food, land and water systems by: Developing aspirational, long-term targets and pathways that set clear direction ... -
Food Loss and Waste Reduction for Climate Action - FAO contribution to the Nature Based Solutions Workstream for the Climate Action Summit
FAO, through its Technical Cooperation Programme, has laid a good foundation in countries across the globe to apply systemic approaches to address the reduction of FLW. This included supporting the public sector to develop ... -
Food System Transformation: A Sustainable and Healthy Nature-based Solution
The organizations behind this contribution commit to taking action within national and subnational jurisdictions as well as in business strategies and practices to address two key drivers of climate change and malnutrition ... -
Format for the Contracting Parties of the SPAW Protocol to report to the Organization
(2001)Every environmental convention requires some form of reporting by its Contracting Parties. Reports can be periodic or can be used to provide information on special issues or unique events. For the Secretariats of these ... -
Fossil Fuel Abatement for Diesel-Based Power Systems: An Action to Meeting SDG 13 through Sustainable Electricity
(2019)This proposal is a concerted effort as a Contribution Action in achieving “SDG-Goal 13: Climate Action - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in ... -
Fostering Sustainable Soil Governance in Africa: Note by the Secretariat - African Ministerial Conference on the Environment Eighteenth Session
(2022-07-15)Soil is the thin layer of organic and inorganic materials that covers the Earth’s rocky surface. The organic portion comprises plant and animal decayed remains, while the inorganic portion is made up of rock fragments. ... -
The Future of the Global Environment Outlook: Considerations for Positioning and Assessment Design - Background Paper
(2021)The background paper is informed by in-depth research on a number of underlying topics in designing of global integrated environmental assessments (IEAs) that are critical for the identification and analysis of options. ... -
GEF-6 - GEF Secretariat Review for Full-Sized/Medium-Sized Projects: The GEF/LDCF/SCCF Trust Fund
Systemic, institutional and individual capacity for the implementation of the Rio Conventions in the Republic of South Sudan -
GEF-6: Request for Project Endorsement/Approval - Systemic, Institutional and Individual Capacity for the Implementation of the Rio Coventions in the Republic of South Sudan
Project Description. Elaborate on: 1) the global environmental and/or adaptation problems, root causes and barriers that need to be addressed; 2) the baseline scenario or any associated baseline projects, 3) the proposed ... -
Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Member States Survey
In March 2019, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) at its fourth session adopted resolution 17 on Promoting gender equality and the human rights and empowerment of women and girls in environmental governance ... -
Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Stakeholders Survey
In March 2019, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) at its fourth session adopted resolution 17 on Promoting gender equality and the human rights and empowerment of women and girls in environmental governance ... -
Global Action on Desert Vegetation Restoration for Carbon Sinking to Tackle and Mitigate Climate Change
(2019)Base on the Kubuqi Model, we advocate a sustainable industry-driven desert management action plan by utilizing the curable desert land worldwide, aiming at the increase of desert vegetation coverage, improvement of regional ... -
Global Blue Carbon 10-Year Initiative
(2019)To achieve comprehensive protection and effective management of the global blue carbon ecosystems, reverse the degradation trend, maintain marine biodiversity, and improve carbon sequestration capacity; Large-scale restoration ... -
Global Campaign for Nature
(2019)This initiative is base on the concept that a large proportion, if not all of the required removals to achieve the 2/1.5 degree goals could be achieved by conserving and enhancing natural sinks, while better land management ... -
Global Coalition of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
(2019)Numerous initiatives and commitments have emerged in recent years in response to climate change, together with an increasing number of diverse sources of climate finance. The need for the private sector engagement has also ... -
Global Coordination for Carbon Storage in Collective Territories of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the Equatorial Region - Contribution of the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities of the Tropical Forests
The indigenous territories located in the Amazon Basin, in the Mesoamerican region, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in Indonesia contain 20.1% of the carbon stored on the surface in the tropical forests ... -
The Global Forest Project
The Global Forest Project ("GFP") is a Canadian led initiative, arising from the Young Champions for Nature Summit, Montreal, 2019 to create a global government partnership through the United Nations ("UN") to plant BILLIONS ... -
A Global Initiative for the Protection of Forest Carbon Sinks and Reservoirs
The Initiative will promote global recognition of the critical role of intact forests through (1) commitments from stewards to monitor, manage, and protect them, (2) support from other stakeholders in the form of capacity, ...