Land use and climate change
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- One planet to share: sustaining human progress in a changing climate
- A. Rajivan / 2012
- The Asia-Pacific Regional Human Development Report (APHDR) focuses on the need for the region to find ways to continue to grow economically, while reducing poverty and tackling climate change and envi...
- The state of Arab cities 2012: challenges of urban transition
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2012
- This regional report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) highlights that, although urban slums are decreasing and urban innovations are being introduced, the Arab region sti...
- Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2012
- Tackling the issue of land and resource tenure is one of the prerequisites for mechanisms such as REDD+ to have positive impacts not only on reducing emissions from the forestry sector but also in red...
- Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils
- World Bank, 2012
- This report by the World Bank presents state of the art knowledge on the impact of different land management practices on soil carbon sequestration rates across the world. The technical study undertak...
- Assessment of Mexico's policies impacting its greenhouse gas emissions
- N Höhne / Climate Action Tracker, 2012
- The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) compares and assesses national and global action against a range of different climate targets across all relevant time frames. This report assesses whether Mexico’s cu...
- 2010-2011 Annual Performance Report of UNDP supported GEF financed projects
- United Nations Development Programme , 2012
- The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have published this annual report on joint projects financed during 2011 on ecosystems and biodiversity preservation, gree...
- Overview of water-related climate change risks, examining water supply and demand adaptive strategies
- A. Nicol;N. Kaur / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summari...
- Outlining threats to water security by climate change in arid and semi-arid regions, and recommendations for adaptive strategies
- 2009
- This perspective document, part of the 16-paper series on water and climate change adaptation, focuses on the impacts and adaptive strategies in arid and semi-arid regions. The series reflect the cent...
- Discussing the climate mitigation potential of agriculture (potentially a dominant area of greenhouse emissions)
- Andreas Gattinger;Julia Jawtusch;Adrian Muller / Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, 2011
- Prepared by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, this in-depth report seeks to shed light on the climate mitigation potential of agriculture. It argues that with an increasing demand for foo...
- Summary of a workshop which discussed water security issues in eastern and southern Africa
- Global Water Partnership, 2012
- A workshop held in Midrand, South Africa, in May 2011 brought together policy and decision-makers, researchers and practitioners to discuss water security issues in eastern and southern Africa. This p...
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