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- Publication 16 August 2021 The Adaptation Finance Gap Update - with insights from the INDCs In 2014 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published its first global Adaptation Gap Report (AGR 2014) (UNEP, 2014), which put forward a preliminary framework for assessing adaptation gaps along with an initial assessment in three selected areas: finance, technology and knowledge. Further to the positive reception of this report, several countries requested UNEP to produce follow up reports focusing on specific adaptation gaps. In response to these requests, UNEP has commissioned a…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Les ecarts de financement en matiere d'adaptation aux changements climatiques - avec la perspective des CPDN En 2014, le Programme des Nations Unies pour l’Environnement (PNUE) a publié son premier rapport sur les écarts entre besoins et perspectives en matière d’adaptation (AGR 2014) (PNUE, 2014), lequel a permis de poser un cadre préliminaire pour évaluer ces écarts et d’établir une évaluation préliminaire dans trois domaines précis : le financement, les technologies et les connaissances. Le rapport a reçu un accueil très positif, plusieurs pays invitant par la suite le PNUE à le mettre à jour en se…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Uncertainty in greenhouse-gas emission scenario projections: Experiences from Mexico and South Africa This report outlines approaches to quantify the uncertainty associated with national greenhouse-gas emission scenario projections. It does so by describing practical applications of those approaches in two countries – Mexico and South Africa. The goal of the report is to promote uncertainty quantification, because quantifying uncertainty has the potential to foster more robust climate-change mitigation plans. To this end the report also summarises the rationale for quantifying uncertainty in…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Condemned to live with one's feet in water? A case study of community based strategies and urban maladaptation in flood prone Pikine/Dakar, Senegal Purpose – The number of poor and informal urban settlers in the world is rapidly growing, and they are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate. Therefore, understanding the nature and sustainability of locally adopted coping and adaptation strategies are key, yet still under-researched areas. Design/methodology/approach – Based on ethnographic research conducted in two poor, flood-prone municipalities in Pikine/Dakar, this paper identifies such coping and adaptation…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Governance and Community Responses to Floods in Poor Peri-urban Areas In recent years, urban flooding has become an increasingly severe and frequent problem for the poor in many West African urban centres. In diverse metropoles of the region, including Lagos, Cotonou, Accra, Abidjan and Dakar, low-income populations who typically live undesirable flood-prone areas see their already considerable vulnerability increased for every flooding event. In the long term, climate change is expected to make matters worse for these already tried populations, due to an…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Assessment of technical potential and selected sustainability impacts of second generation bioenergy in Ghana
- Publication 16 August 2021 Social LCA Scenarios: Engaging producers and consumers in new domestic oyster value chains in Denmark Efforts to develop a Social LCA methodology target the need to account for social impacts in the life cycle of existing products. Most often, the objective is to provide scientific support for decisions on alternative suppliers and terms of governance in the value chain of a particular product. This paper suggests an application which shifts the focus to the design phase of life cycles of products and services yet to be constructed, not by a major lead company, but rather by start-ups and…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Kortlægning af offentlig fiskeriforskning samt innovations-, viden og erhvervssamarbejder i fiskerierhvervet Fiskeriforskning understøtter forvaltning af levende ressourcer i havet, langs kysterne, i søer og i åer samt udviklingen af en bæredygtig fiskeri- og akvakulturindustri, forskning, der også har stor betydning for Dan-marks fiskeforarbejdningsindustri og for virksomheder, der producerer foder, foderingredienser og tekno-logi til akvakulturproduktion.Kortlægningen viser, at den offentlige fiskeriforskning er en dansk styrkeposition af international kvalitet, bygger på internationalt samarbejde…