Manuals and toolkits
- ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation’, Briefs on Gender and Climate Funds
- ( J. Brown / United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
- Women often play critical roles in forest management, and their unique knowledge and skills can help REDD mechanisms and projects become more effective, equitable and sustainable. At the time this bri...
- ‘Adaptation Fund’, Briefs on Gender and Climate Funds
- ( United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
- This brief recognises that the equal involvement of women and men in all levels of adaptation planning efforts is needed to ensure that policy, programmes and projects address socially and culturally ...
- ‘Climate Investment Funds’, Briefs on Gender and Climate Funds
- ( United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
- According to this brief, the current pledge to invest 80 per cent of Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) in male-dominated formal-economy work sectors, energy and transportation may perpetuate existing ge...
- 'The Clean Development Mechanism’, Briefs on Gender and Climate Funds
- ( S. Alboher / United Nations Development Programme , 2012)
- The CDM, established by the Kyoto Protocol, has been highly effective in identifying and funding cost-effective opportunities to reduce emissions. However, it has been widely criticised for prioritisi...
- Human Development Report 2007/2008 Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
- ( United Nations Development Programme , 2007)
- According to the Human Development Report 2007/2008, the consequences of climate change for some of the world’s poorest people could be devastating. The report seeks to identify the nature of po...
- Preparing low-emission climate-resilient development strategies
- ( United Nations Development Programme , 2011)
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This report is an Executive Summary of a series of manuals and guidebooks in support of low-emission climate-resilient development strategy (LECRDS). The manuals and guidebooks draw upon the experi...
- Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development
- ( United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
- This report explores how better policies towards human mobility can enhance human development. It lays out the case for governments to reduce restrictions on movement within and across their borders, ...
- Charting a New Low-Carbon Route to Development
- ( Y. Glemarec (ed);L. Cando (ed);C. Nuttall (ed) / United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
- The world has limited time to address climate change and will require a dramatic shift in public and private investments from fossil fuels to more sustainable climate-friendly alternatives by regional...
- Catalysing climate finance: a guidebook on policy and financing options to support green, low-emission and climate-resilient development
- ( Y. Glemarec (ed);C. Connelly (ed) / United Nations Development Programme , 2011)
- The scale of the climate change challenge that faces the international community is vast. In the absence of a significant reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions from current levels between now a...
- Blending Climate Finance Through National Climate Funds: A Guidebook for the Design and Establishment of National Funds to Achieve Climate Change Priorities
- ( C. Flynn (ed);L. Jensen (ed) / United Nations Development Programme , 2011)
- Climate change is one of the most pressing threats to development today. Addressing climate change requires that countries take an integrated approach to climate and development planning so that polic...
