This new UNDP report looks at how changing 21st Century expectations on roles and functions of protected areas are beginning to shape protected area management around the world & identifies emerging best practices under a new paradigm that views protected areas as part of a planetary life support system.
This paper outlines a climate finance framework to assist developing countries to move to low-emissions, climate-resilient growth paths. UNDP is proposing a country-driven, multi-stakeholder climate finance framework to assist developing countries to scale up efforts to address climate change in a way that strengthens and advances national development priorities.
This new assessment by UNDP based on a review of 50 country studies provides an action agenda for MDG acceleration by reviewing progress thus far. It also identifies the strategies, policies and interventions for further acceleration.
China's National Human Development Report for 2009/10 examines some of the key issues related to China's transition to a low carbon economy. The report considers the main obstacles in the short and medium term, the needs of development and transfer of technologies, and the costs, including the opportunity costs which lead to needs for financial resources.
This publication highlights some case studies that illustrate successful projects funded by the Community Water Initiative (CWI), which have helped foster water security in local communities while simultaneously helping them mitigate and adapt to climate change through: Community-based water supply and sanitation services using low-cost systems manageable by communities; Water resource conservati
he International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Food Programme
(WFP) and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) jointly
coordinated the preparation of a report on the first Millennium
Development Goal (MDG 1) (Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger). The report outlines sucessful strategies and measures to address
employment and decent work.
The report provides a summary of existing tools and good practices from a range of organisations to guide development practitioners in their climate change mainstreaming efforts. The components and entry points of the mainstreaming process are explored; Key climate change adaptation and mainstreaming concepts are defined; and a comparative overview of existing tools and guidelines is provided.
Climate change influences human development in many ways. Global warming has already changed livelihoods in many parts of the world and the poor are suff ering the most.
