The 2011 Bhutan National Human Development Report (NHDR) focuses on the human development conditions that characterise Bhutan's vulnerability to climate risks-accelerating human development progress and closing gaps in achievements figure among the most important responses to climate change.

This new UNDP report highlights the development challenges faced by people who live in drylands and outlines how these challenges can be tackled successfully.

The financial resources involved in a shift to a low-emission climate-resilient economy are daunting but not impossible to achieve. The key challenge however of financing the transition towards a low-emission society is to redirect existing and planned capital flows from traditional high-carbon to low-emission and climate-resilient investments.

The UNDP has launched a publication titled "Catalyzing Climate Finance – A Guidebook on Policy and Financing Options to Support Green, Low-emission, Climate-resilient Development," which aims to enable countries to better assess the level and nature of assistance they will require to catalyze climate capital based on their national, regional and local circumstances.

This report discusses the legal and institutional frameworks that apply to twenty-eight (28) international water bodies that were identified as part of the United Nations Development Programme-Global Environment Facility (?UNDP-GEF?) 'Good Practices and Portfolio Learning in GEF Transboundary Freshwater and Marine Legal and Institutional Frameworks' project.

This guidebook builds on a large range of UNDP's ongoing initiatives to support adaptation to climate change. This series is intended to empower decision makers to take action, and to prepare their territories to adapt, and hopefully thrive, under changing climatic conditions.

This paper introduces a methodology that measures the effort made by countries in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The methodology compares the rate of progress on MDG indicators in the period before and after the adoption of the MDGs. Correct for two biases ignored in previous methodologies: non-linearity in the rate of change, and effort appreciation.

This report identifies ways in which local governments can address climate change, both at the policy level and on the ground. It outlines approaches for national governments, development agencies and specialist climate change institutions to improve the performance of local governments in addressing climate change.

This report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people

Maximising the effectiveness of climate finance must include steps to reduce the potential for corruption, as large influxes of resources coupled with an imperative to spend can create conditions ripe for corruption.