Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change governance, Climate change

Showing 311-320 of 717 results

Pages

  • Document

    Agroforestry extension needs at the community level in AgFor project sites in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    The Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi: Linking Knowledge with Action project hereafter referred to as ‘AgFor project’ is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency CIDA . It is being implemented by the World Agroforestry Centre and partners from 2011 to 2016 Roshetko et al. 2012 .
  • Document

    Agroforestry, food and nutritional security

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2013
    Agroforestry supports food and nutritional security through; (1) the direct provision of tree foods such as fruits and leafy vegetables and by supporting staple crop production; (2) by raising farmers’ incomes through the sale of tree products and surplus staples; (3) by providing fuels for cooking and; (4) by supporting various ecosystem services such as pollination that are essential fo
  • Document

    Payments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor.

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2013
    Payments  for  ecosystem  services (PES)  provide a market based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services.
  • Document

    Towards a policy menu to strengthen the ambition to mitigate greenhouse gases

    Ecofys, 2014
    It is widely acknowledged in international climate negotiations that greater ambition is required, in the near-term future, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and avoid exceeding safe levels. While existing commitments from states are presently essential, they do not close the gap necessary to avoid a two degree scenario.
  • Document

    Supporting NAP development with the PROVIA Guidance: A user companion

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2014
    This user companion explains how the PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change, can be used to better understand key concepts and available methods and tools throughout the national adaptation plan (NAP) process.
  • Document

    Mainstreaming climate change into development in the Pacific

    Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2014
    This paper argues that mainstreaming climate change must mean that climate risks are carefully considered and incorporated into all development planning and practice. It contributes to more sustainable development and more resilient communities; if climate change is not mainstreamed into decision making, there is a real risk that development goals will not be achieved.
  • Document

    Mainstreaming development imperatives into NAMAs: An approach

    Development and Mitigation Forum, 2014
    This paper offers a structured approach to making these decisions on which mitigation actions are reported as NAMAs (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) and which of the emerging categories of NAMAs they are assigned to.
  • Document

    South Africa’s green economy transition: implications for reorienting the economy towards a low-carbon growth trajectory

    2013
    The notion of green economies seems to have gained momentum in both developed and developing countries. For South Africa, the transition to a green economy presents a mix of challenges and opportunities.
  • Organisation

    Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP)

    GGBP is a global network of practitioners and policy makers that identifies and shares best practices of green growth planning and implementation from around the world.
  • Document

    Seeing the wood for the trees: forestry governance in the DRC

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This case study on forestry governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forms part of a three-year project entitled Strengthening the Governance of Africa’s Natural Resources, conducted by the Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme (GARP) of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).

Pages