The study, resulting from evidence and field collected data, aimed at identifying climate-related security risks, better understand how communities are experiencing climate change and at mapping integrated
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.
<p>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.<br /> <br /> </p>
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.
This updated handbook provides hands-on guidance for identifying the most effective technology options for poverty reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation. By drawing on decades of experience and inputs from leading experts and practitioners, it brings novel insights for carrying out needs assessments and creating actionable plans as part of national climate change strategies.
<p>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. </p>
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.
<p>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.<br />
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.
