Marine capture fisheries already facing multiple challenges due to overfishing, habitat loss and weak management are poorly positioned to cope with new problems stemming from climate change, an FAO study suggests. Small island developing states

The compendium presents an overview of over 400 projects, case studies and research activities related to climate change and indigenous peoples, and contains a survey of current effects and adaptive responses.

The need to enable and promote access to innovative energy technologies that address both poverty reduction and climate change needs is both urgent and timely.

Climate change and the policies instituted to combat it are affecting the realization of the right to food in myriad, often unnoticed ways.

In light of global concerns over the impacts of climate change and climate variability, this document provides an overview of opportunities for adaptation and mitigation in dryland pastoral and agropastoral systems. It makes a case for a concerted global effort to promote mitigation practices that also have benefits for adaptation and livelihoods of pastoralists and agropastoralists in drylands.

The overall objective of the conference was to discuss the role of mountains as early indicators of climate change and the impact of global warming on mountain ecosystems. Specially, the actual state and the open gaps of scientific research were presented on several early indicators and in different mountain regions around the world.

Climate change is a serious risk to poverty reduction and threatens to undo decades of development efforts. As the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development states,