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- Publication 16 August 2021 Adaptation Metrics: Perspectives on measuring, aggregating and comparing adaptation results
- Publication 16 August 2021 The Emissions Gap Report 2015 Following the historic signing of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this sixth edition of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report comes as world leaders start gathering in Paris to establish a new agreement on climate change. The report offers an independent assessment of the mitigation contributions from the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) committed to by 1 October 2015, by the 146 countries that account for around 90 per cent of global emissions. It compares the 2030…
- Publication 16 August 2021 The Adaptation Finance Gap Report UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report series focuses on Finance, Technology and Knowledge gaps in climate change adaptation. It compliments the Emissions Gap Report series, and explores the implications of failing to close the emissions gap. The report builds on a 2014 assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which laid out the concept of ‘adaptation gaps’ and outlined three such gaps: technology, finance and knowledge. The 2016 Adaptation Gap Report assesses the difference between…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Achieving health benefits from carbon reductions: Manual for CaRBonH calculation tool The Carbon Reduction Benefits on Health (CaRBonH) calculation tool allows quantification of the physical and economic consequences for human health achieved through improvements in country-level air quality from domestic carbon reductions, specifically policy mitigation actions and measures as reported in the NDCs submitted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in support of the objectives as set out in Article 2 of the Convention.
- Publication 16 August 2021 Linkages between Technology Needs Assessments and National Determined Contributions
- Publication 16 August 2021 Mapping barriers and enabling environments in Technology Needs Assessments, Nationally Determined Contributions, and Technical Assistance of the Climate Technology Centre and Network 1. The Technology Executive Committee (TEC) agreed to include in its rolling work plan 2016-2018, work stream 1, a task to map technology needs assessments (TNAs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and technical assistance (TA) of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) regarding enabling environments and barriers.1 2. At the TEC-16 meeting, the task force on innovation and RD&D presented an update on its work on this activity, The TEC requested its task force on TNAs to…
- Publication 16 August 2021 The adaptation health gap: a global overview
- Publication 16 August 2021 Food and nutritional security