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Taking Stock of Durban: Review of Key Outcomes and the Road Ahead
UNDP, 2012The Durban Climate Conference in December 2011 represented a significant step forward for the United Nations climate change process. Although its outcomes continue to be debated, the Durban Conference could prove to be a game-changing conference for the climate negotiations. Governments adopted a comprehensive package of decisions—including an agreement to initiate a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol and the "Durban Platform" to negotiate a long-term, all inclusive future mitigation regime that includes a process to address the "ambition gap" for stabilizing average global temper ...
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Available online: http://www.undpcc.org/docs/Bali%20Road%20Map/English/UNDP_Taking%20Stock%20of%20 [...]
United Nations Development Programme Drylands Development Centre
Published by: UNDP ; 2012The Durban Climate Conference in December 2011 represented a significant step forward for the United Nations climate change process. Although its outcomes continue to be debated, the Durban Conference could prove to be a game-changing conference for the climate negotiations. Governments adopted a comprehensive package of decisions—including an agreement to initiate a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol and the "Durban Platform" to negotiate a long-term, all inclusive future mitigation regime that includes a process to address the "ambition gap" for stabilizing average global temperature increases at 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. They also adopted a range of decisions designed to implement the 2010 Cancun Agreements, including launching a new Green Climate Fund and developing stronger requirements for the reporting and review of countries' mitigation efforts.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Climate policies ; Climate change ; Climate change - Mitigation
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Drought risk management: practitioner's perspectives from Africa and Asia
UNDP, 2012This report is one of the main outputs from UNDP DDC's activities of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP), funded by the Government of Japan, in 2011. It reviews the current drought risk management (DRM) institutional and programmatic landscape in Africa and Asia and mapped out some of the main DRM capacity gaps and gap-filling opportunities, such as the value of indigenous knowledge, the economic impacts of drought and related political decision-making, risk assessment, early warning systems and awareness raising. It highlights important similarities in DRM i ...
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Available online: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/Environment%20and%20Energy/sustaina [...]
United Nations Development Programme Drylands Development Centre
Published by: UNDP ; 2012This report is one of the main outputs from UNDP DDC's activities of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP), funded by the Government of Japan, in 2011. It reviews the current drought risk management (DRM) institutional and programmatic landscape in Africa and Asia and mapped out some of the main DRM capacity gaps and gap-filling opportunities, such as the value of indigenous knowledge, the economic impacts of drought and related political decision-making, risk assessment, early warning systems and awareness raising. It highlights important similarities in DRM issues across Africa and Asia and identifies priority areas to which the inter-regional south-south cooperation could add value.
This study is based upon the consultations with key individuals in both continents, an online survey of some 400 people working in drought related fields and the First Africa-Asia Drought Adaptation Forum held in Bangkok, Thailand, in June 2011.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Early warning systems ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Economics ; Drought Preparedness and Mitigation ; Region I - Africa ; Region II - Asia
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