Cancun compromise
Has India yielded without securing any benefit? Was it poor strategy or smart tactics? India
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Water infrastructure criteria under the climate bonds standard
Healthy ecosystems like forests, wetlands, and farms are nature's water infrastructure. They are essential for buffering against floods and the provision of clean, ample water around the world – feeding
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Water and low carbon development: Summary sheet
This document contains summary sheet on water and low carbon development. Water is vital for economic and social progress in developing nations, and the core natural resource for sustaining an ecological balance in human ecosystems. The low carbon economy could overcome some barriers to achieving water security goals, but it could also challenge water security.
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Climate-smart agriculture case studies 2021: projects from around the world
This publication describes climate-smart agriculture (CSA) case studies from around the world, showing how the approach is implemented to address challenges related to climate change and agriculture. The
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Pacific perspectives 2022: accelerating climate action
The Pacific region is at a crossroads. The advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals aspirations across all sectors are facing the test of international solidarity. The Pacific Small Island Developing
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A compendium of key climate smart agriculture practices in intensive cereal based systems of South Asia
Climate Smart (Sustainable Management of Agricultural Resources and Techniques) Agriculture is an approach of crop production, which deals with the management of available agricultural resources with latest
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Climate smart agriculture: smallholder adoption and implications for climate change adaptation and mitigation
There are a wide range of agriculture-based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce emissions
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Making peace with nature: a scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies
<p>This UNEP report communicates the current status of the world’s urgent issues -- climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution-- and opportunities to solve them</p>
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Loss and damage and agrifood systems: addressing gaps and challenges
<p>Agrifood systems are facing an escalating threat from climate change-induced loss and damage, and actions – including increasing financing— must be taken to address their vulnerabilities, according to this new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).</p>
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Global survey of agricultural mitigation projects
<p>This global survey of agricultural mitigation projects provides a summary of the state-of-the-art of different projects currently developed in this sector. It contains data on 50 agricultural projects focusing on climate change, of which 22 were developed specifically with a greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation objective.</p>
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Climate change posing serious threats to agriculture
Climate change is posing serious threats to country’s agricultural productivity and water resources and it cannot be avoided totally, but its effects can be mitigated through developing high temperature
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Climate change a greater threat to world
Climate change is a global phenomenon, accelerated by human activity said Parris N.Glendening, Former Governor of Maryland and president, Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute, USA here on Monday.
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Changing climate, changing disasters: pathways towards integration
This step-by-step guide on the implementation of the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach is structured around the policy and programme management cycle of the approach. CSDRM aims to
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Biochar systems for smallholders in Developing Countries
Biochar is the carbon-rich organic matter that remains after heating biomass under minimization of oxygen during a process called pyrolysis. Biochar is relevant to deforestation, agricultural resilience,
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Cities and climate change: an urgent agenda
This report outlines how residents of cities are responsible for as much as 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time facing significant impacts from climate change. It says that up to 80 percent of the expected $80 billion to $100 billion per year in climate change adaptation costs will likely be borne by urban areas.
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Economics of climate-smart agriculture: considerations for economic and financial analyses of climate-smart agriculture projects
Climate change poses a major threat to food systems and livelihoods all over the world. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses these challenges. CSA stands for including climate change into the planning
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Scaling up the use of low-emissions development (LED) research outputs in Kenya
The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) Data Atlas and Training Guidebook can help operationalize Kenya’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy (KCSAS) and its framework at the county level by building capacity
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Integrated community food production: a compendium of climate-resilient agriculture options
This compendium of best practices brings together practical ecologically sound and nutrition-sensitive approaches to improving the productivity of backyard, community and family farms. With the increasing
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The case for energy-smart food system
An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to ensure that food, energy and climate are jointly addressed, trade-offs considered, and appropriate safeguards are put in place. These issues will not be addressed
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Energy-smart food for people and climate
The food sector accounts for around 30 percent of global energy consumption and produces over 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new FAO report released at the climate talks