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Vol. 66(2) - 2017 - Listos para el tiempo, preparados para el clima: apoyo a la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible
Contiene:
La OMM y la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible
por el Secretario General de la OMM Petteri Taalas, p.2
Fortalecimiento de la capacidad de alerta temprana de los SMHN en los países de bajos ingresos
por John Harding y Silvia Llosa, p.4
Cómo los pronósticos climáticos fortalecen la seguridad alimentaria
por Tamuka Magadzine, Gideon Galu y James P. Verdin, p.. 10
Innovación y apoyo comunitario en la gestión sostenible del agua
por Sophia Sandström y Andreas Steiner, p.16
66(2) - 2017 - Temps et climat: anticiper pour s’adapter – L’appui au Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030
Contient:
- L’OMM et le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030, p.2
- Renforcer la capacité d’alerte précoce dans les SMHN des pays à faible revenu, p.4
- L’appui des prévisions climatologiques à la sécurité alimentaire, p.10
- Gestion durable de l’eau: innover et associer la population, p.16
- Prévenir les catastrophes grâce à la parité et au pouvoir d’action des femmes, p.22
- L’élite scientifique d’aujourd’hui et de demain en météorologie, hydrologie et climatologie – Une perspective intergénérationnelle, p.26
- Des indicateurs p ...
Том 66(2) - 2017 г. - Готовность к погоде, учет климата — поддержка Повестки дня в области устойчивого развития на период до 2030 года
is an issue of Бюллетень. Всемирная Метеорологическая Организация (BMO); Всемирная Метеорологическая Организация (BMO) - BMO, 2018Содержание
- ВМО и Повестка дня в области устойчивого развития на период до 2030 года。 2
- Укрепление потенциала НМГС в области раннего предупреждения в странах с низким уровнем доходов。 4
- Как прогнозы климата укрепляют продовольственную безопасность。 10
- Инновационное и устойчивое управление водными ресурсами на общинном уровне。 16
- Снижение риска бедствий посредством обеспечения гендерного равенства и лидерства женщин。 22
- Нынешние и будущие лидеры в области науки о погоде, воде и климате — точки зрения представителей разных поколений。 26
...Sommet de l’ONU sur le climat
Bulletin, Vol. 63(2). OMM, 2015Le Sommet de l’ONU sur le climat a rassemblé 100 chefs d’État et de gouvernement ainsi que des responsables du monde de la finance, des chefs d’entreprise et des représentants de la société civile, afin de dynamiser la réflexion sur le changement climatique et les réponses à y apporter.Climate finance and water security: Synthesis report
This synthesis report summarises research on how climate finance has been spent so far, and whether or not it has been spent on improving people’s water security.
The report highlights that the global community has committed to mobilise US $100 billion every year, from 2020 onwards. The study aims to identify the type and scale of national and subnational programmes and projects that have been funded by climate finance and how they relate to local water security. Findings are summarised from three case studies in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Zambia.
There is a brief d ...Selection of climate policies under the uncertainties in the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC: In Nature Climate Change, Letters
This paper is based on the premise that strategies for dealing with climate change must incorporate and quantify all the relevant uncertainties, and be designed to manage the resulting risks.
It attempts to quantify the uncertainty of mitigation costs, climate change dynamics, and economic damage for alternative carbon budgets. The paper ranks climate policies according to different decision-making criteria concerning uncertainty, risk aversion and intertemporal preferences. The findings are taken to show that preferences over uncertainties are as important as the choice of the ...Good practice study on principles for indicator development, selection, and use in climate change adaptation monitoring and evaluation
This study identifies and addresses key challenges concerning monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for climate change adaptation (CCA).
It documents good practices and good practice principles on the development, selection, and use of indicators used in the M&E of adaptation interventions. The study also looks at the steps and contexts M&E personnel should consider when formulating, selecting, adjusting, and/or using indicators. The study also identifies common themes in the literature and gaps in data – including the role of learning in an adaptation M&E system and the identificatio ...National climate change adaptation: emerging practices in monitoring and evaluation
Unblocking the climate finance negotiations will unlock a new global agreement on climate change in Paris later this year. Developing countries need to see tangible commitment to providing the finance needed to combat the negative effects of climate change.
As global emissions continue to increase, so does the cost of managing the impact. Africa’s Group of Negotiators (AGN) is positioned to take the lead, consistently presenting common positions for 54 countries. A breakthrough necessitates focus on a key issue that will yield win–win outcomes. The global climate finance architecture, w ...Advancing Africa’s position on global climate finance
Unblocking the climate finance negotiations will unlock a new global agreement on climate change in Paris later this year. Developing countries need to see tangible commitment to providing the finance needed to combat the negative effects of climate change.
As global emissions continue to increase, so does the cost of managing the impact. Africa’s Group of Negotiators (AGN) is positioned to take the lead, consistently presenting common positions for 54 countries. A breakthrough necessitates focus on a key issue that will yield win–win outcomes. The global climate finance architecture, w ...Climate finance : lessons from Rwanda
Developed countries have made little progress in providing climate finance for the transition towards low-emission and climateadaptive development pathways in developing countries. It is expected that a new legal agreement on climate finance will be reached at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP 21) later this year. It is vital that developing countries are able to motivate for greater climate finance accessibility. To this end, developing countries must demonstrate their ability to manage funds, develop projects that respond to social needs and indicate clear impact and results. Rw ...The institutionalisation of climate policy in India: designing a development-focused, co-benefits based approach
This paper examines climate policy in India, its coordination, design and implementation.
It looks at three periods: pre-2007; 2007–2009 and 2010-mid-2014 and several key themes are identified: First, the formation of climate institutions have frequently been driven by international negotiations, even while filtered through domestic context. Second, once established, institutions tend not to be stable or long-lasting. Third, while various efforts at knowledge generation have been attempted, they do not add up to a mechanism for sustained and consistent strategic thinking on clim ...Transparency and the Paris Agreement : driving ambitious action in the new climate regime
This working paper aims to stimulate the debate around the transparency system in the new climate regime.
It proposes the roles and objectives which the authors see for the transparency system under the new agreement and provides an overview of the current transparency system under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), identifying weaknesses and strengths based on the output generated so far. The paper goes on to develop the main principles of the new transparency system and provides concrete proposals for how to ensure its effective ...Building toward breakthrough : Energizing the Paris 2015 climate negotiations and Post-Paris Action Agenda through broader engagement
This working paper argues that raising the trajectory of the 2015 Climate Change Agreement to be concluded in December in Paris demands fresh thinking and an action agenda that goes beyond previous efforts.
It highlights that a truly robust and ambitious Paris outcome must launch a new framework for the global response to climate change that emphasizes broader engagement and celebrates the real progress that mayors, governors, CEOs, and other civil society leaders are already achieving.
The paper presents a model made up of three core components which aims ...Accounting framework for the Post-2020 period
This report focuses on accounting rules and procedures which will dictate how progress is tracked for various possible types of mitigation contributions that might be included in the 2015 climate change agreement and how their achievement will be determined.
It explores the components of a robust and rigorous accounting framework, lessons learned from existing accounting frameworks, and how such a framework can be developed for the 2015 agreement. The objective is to support the establishment of a sufficiently robust and rigorous common accounting framework for t ...Forests and climate change after Lima
This report argues that the outcomes of COP 20, which was held in Lima, Peru in 2014, are expected to have a significant impact on developments in the field of forests and climate change over the coming year.
It argues that forest sector stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific require succinct and accurate information on the implications of the COP 20 discussions and their significance to forest policy decisions and practice. The report aims to help provide this.Community resilience framework : lessons from the field
Swiss NGO DRR Platform, 2015The report presents the main findings from case studies about resilience assessments that were carried out in five countries through workshops: El Salvador, Bolivia, Haiti, Palestine, and Cambodia. It capitalizes on local knowledge and experience and provides important insights not only on how those most at risk build resilience, but also on how they struggle to overcome the barriers that are imposed on them by their natural, socio-political and economic environments. It highlights the range of expertise and commitment for promoting resilience through disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate ...Climate adaptation research in a larger Europe : an analysis at national scale
The emerging economies and climate change : a case study of the BASIC grouping
Bidwai P. - Transnational Institute, 2014Among the most dramatic and far-reaching geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era is the shift in the locus of global power away from the West with the simultaneous emergence as major powers of former colonies and other countries in the South, which were long on the periphery of international capitalism. As they clock rapid GDP growth, these “emerging economies” are trying to assert their new identities and interests in a variety of ways. These include a demand for reforming the structures of global governance and the United Nations system (especially the Security Council) and the fo ...Climate-resilient development : a framework for understanding and addressing climate change
This framework offers a simple yet robust five-stage approach to help decision-makers and development practitioners at all levels systematically assess climate-related risks and prioritize actions that promote climate-resilient development. Developed by USAID’s Global Climate Change Office, this “development-first” approach helps decision-makers and practitioners integrate climate considerations directly into development activities across multiple sectors, keeping the focus on achieving development goals despite a changing climate. Working with USAID missions, governments, and other stakeholde ...Turn down the heat: confronting the new climate normal
World Bank the - World Bank, 2014This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and parts of Europe and Central Asia. For each region, the report addresses the regional patterns of climate change, such as heat extremes, extreme precipitation, droughts, tropical cyclones/hurricanes, and sea-level rise.
Building on earlier Turn Down the Heat reports, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day (0.8°C), 2°C and 4°C warming above pre-industrial temperatures on agricultural production, water resource ...The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report: what’s in it for Latin America?
This report, compiled by a wide range of experts from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), presents key findings from the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for Latin America. It extracts Latin America-specific data, trends and analysis directly from AR5, summarising it in a short volume to make it accessible to all audiences, and highlights key opportunities to achieve adaptation, mitigation and development.
The report distils the richest material on climate impacts and trends in small islands, and Latin America’s ...The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment
Toman Mickael - World Bank, 2014Information on ecosystem characteristics as well as economic statistics is needed to more fully inform decision makers on the impacts of climate change on human well-being. Climate change risks involve potentially large and irreversible as well as highly uncertain impacts that need to be evaluated with information that complements cost-benefit analysis. Information on the irreversibility of impacts also is relevant for evaluating implications for intergenerational equity. In addition, climate change is subject to a large degree of Knightian uncertainty, making it useful to understand how indiv ...Climate change in Mali: expected impacts on pests and diseases afflicting livestock
This report presents a series of tables which analyse the potential impact of a changed climate on the most common diseases afflicting cattle, sheep, goats, camels, donkeys, pigs, and chickens in Mali. For each livestock disease identified, the disease status under current climate was assessed, including the geographical range of the endemic zone, the rate of disease outbreaks within endemic zones, the mode of pathogen transmission, and the relative economic importance to livestock owners. These served as the baseline for an assessment of the likely change in risk of infection under climate sc ...The right climate for development: why the SDGs must act on climate change
This report argues that tackling climate change, poverty eradication and sustainable development has to be integrating and cannot be approached as spate issues.
This report argues that if action is not taken to cut emissions and to support communities to adapt to the changes that they are already experiencing, its impacts will only increase. The new UN Post-2015 development Framework, to be agreed in September 2015, will include a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report argues that this offers a ‘crucial opportunity’ to ensure the threat to poverty reduction from climate ...Cities and climate change: National governments enabling local action
OECD, 2014This report explores how enabling policy frameworks at the national level can support critical urban action to combat climate change. It argues that cities have a unique ability to address global climate change challenges and that local action takes place in the context of broader national frameworks that can either empower or slow down city-level action; therefore, supportive national and regional policies and incentives are required to ensure city-level initiatives have sufficient resources and potential to effect meaningful change. The report states that national policies often establish wh ...Extreme weather driving countries to adapt to climate change
European Environment Agency (EEA) - EEA, 2014Building climate resilience : a training manual for community based climate change adaptation
This training manual aims to provide climate change adaptation trainers and learners with a practice-based adaptation knowledge, and a process to assess, analyze, and plan for focused climate change adaptation initiatives within their work profiles. The manual is sectioned into four training modules, setting a common understanding around climate change concepts, vocabulary and sectorial adaptation frameworks, then moving to more integrated knowledge regarding enabling environments for community adaptation and resilience building. Each module is comprised of several learning sessions and each s ...
How the United Nations System Supports Ambitious Action on Climate Change : The United Nations System Delivering as One on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
United Nations, 2014A new market-based climate change solution achieving 2∘C and equity: In WIREs Energy Environ 2014
Nishimura M. - Wiley, 2014This opinion article argues that current climate change strategies seem increasingly incapable of averting planetary catastrophe.
It argues that while the United Nations (UN) strategy places responsibility for CO2 reduction on governments, governments by nature seek lower burdens and pledges fail to produce the necessary results for achievement of any identified climate target. It states that climate financing holds little hope due to the likelihood of “dire fiscal circumstances” persisting for decades to come. The author argues that the most cost-effective plan is to put a global price ...Canada in a changing climate: sector perspectives on impacts and adaptation
Government of Canada, 2014This report focuses on new information and knowledge, assessing advances made in understanding climate change impacts and adaptation from a sectoral perspective, based primarily on literature published up to the end of 2012. It draws from the individual chapters of Canada's national-scale science assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation, which include an overview of Canada’s changing climate (Ch. 2), thematic chapters focused on sectors (Ch. 3 to 8) and the concluding chapter on adaptation research and practice (Ch. 9). The rest of the synthesis is structured around high-level concl ...Exploring the role of climate science in supporting long-term adaptation and decision-making in sub-Saharan Africa
The working paper is intended to identify key gaps in science and capacity to feed into the scoping phase of the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) programme. It brings together information from 1) A review of articles and ‘grey’ (unpublished) literature on knowledge gaps and areas needed to support the capacity of African decision-makers and 2) Two regional activities: a workshop in and a side-event to the Africa Climate Change Conference 2013 in Arusha, Tanzania.
It argues that ensuring that policy-makers are able to respond to the medium- and long-term implications of climate change is ...Planning for an uncertain future: promoting adaptation to climate change through flexible and forward-looking decision making
This report outlines key findings and makes recommendations on how to better support decision-making processes for understanding climate change adaptation and implementing emerging researched approach - Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM). The report describes three case studies conducted in Kotido, Uganda, in Gemechis, Ethiopia, and in Guijá, Mozambique outlining the use of FFDM as well as the effectiveness and limitations of a game-enabled reflection approach in capacity-building activities.The changing architecture of international climate change law
This chapter offers a bird’s eye view of the overall architecture of international climate change law. Following a discussion of the defining features of climate change law, it discusses the origins and development of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and subsequent arrangements adopted under its auspices, notably the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2010 Cancún Agreements. The chapter shows that while the UNFCCC process has grown more complex over time – in terms of its rules, institutions and the actors involved – so has international climate change law and g ...Climate Change Politics through a Global Pledge-and-Review Regime: Positions among Negotiators and Stakeholders: In Sustainability 2014, 6
Pledge-and-review is an essential pillar for climate change mitigation up until 2020 under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In this paper, we build on a survey handed out to participants at the Seventeenth Conference of Parties in 2011 to examine to what extent climate negotiators and stakeholders agree with existing critiques towards pledge-and-review. Among the critique examined, we find that the one most agreed with is that the pledges fall short of meeting the 2 degree target, while the one least agreed with is that pledges are voluntary. We also f ...
Apoyo del sistema de las Naciones Unidas a ambiciosas medidas en materia de cambio climático : El sistema de las Naciones Unidas, unido en la acción ante el cambio climático y en pro del desarrollo sostenible
Naciones Unidas, 2014Creación de capacidad en la evaluación de modelos y en el apoyo a la toma de decisiones del CORDEX
Los informes de evaluación del clima en los ámbitos estatal, nacional e internacional son importantes a la hora de ofrecer una base científica que permita comprender y evaluar los impactos de la variabilidad climática y del cambio climático en sectores económicos tales como la agricultura y la alimentación, los recursos hídricos, la energía y el transporte.Previsión de impactos climáticos mundiales y regionales, riesgos e implicaciones políticas
Boletín, Vol. 61(2). OMM, 2013¿Cuál sería la eficacia y el coste de una política para mitigar el cambio climático causado por el ser humano? ¿Qué ventajas y riesgos conlleva el esperar a una mejor comprensión por parte de la ciencia?Ozone and NOx air pollution predicted to fall in Europe
Science for Environment Policy, Issue 314. EEA, 2013A new study has estimated that nitrogen oxide (NOx) and harmful ozone levels will fall significantly in Europe, by 2030, if all current and planned air quality legislation is implemented. The co-beneficial effects of climate change policies could also reduce levels of these air pollutants by a further 40%.Инициатива Устойчивая энергетика для всех и смягчение изменения климата
В этой статье вкратце рассматривается вопрос о том, какую пользу может принести для смягчения изменения климата достижение целей Инициативы Организации Объединенных Наций Устойчивая энергетика для всех.USAEE Working Paper, 13-105. Mitigating climate change in Nigeria: fuel subsidy removal as a possible policy option
Abraham Terfa Williams - SSRN, 2013This paper argues that policies that discourage the demand for non-renewable energy can be used to cut down CO2 emission as it would help to discourage consumption patterns away non-renewable energy sources. The transmission mechanism can be deduced from the high price that the withdrawal of fuel subsidy would bring and the resultant downward adjustment in non-renewable energy use in consumption and production (such as emission from vehicles) which would bring about reduction in total emission. The study focused on Nigeria as a significant oil producing country in Sub Saharan Africa and employ ...Zero carbon Britain: rethinking the future
This report explores how Britain can achieve Carbon neutrality. Building upon the groundwork laid by the Zero Carbon Britain project over the last six years, the authors incorporate the latest developments in science and technology, plus more detailed research in two main areas: balancing highly variable energy supply and demand; and the nutritional implications of a low carbon diet. The report highlights the need for further research on adaptation, economic transition and policy that would achieve sufficient greenhouse gas emissions reductions quickly and equitably. From a broader viewpoint, ...Social and Governance Dimensions of Climate Change: Implications for Policy
Foa R. - World Bank, 2013How can countries prepare to manage the impact of climate-change induced natural disasters? How can countries ensure that they have the governmental institutions required to manage the challenge of adaptation to climate change? In this paper, a range of economic and institutional measures are tested for their potential effects on natural disaster resilience and the quality of environmental governance. The findings suggest an important role is played by social and political institutions in determining the success of adaptation and response to natural disasters, in particular in the degree to wh ...How can the Green Climate Fund initiate a paradigm shift?
The objective of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is to achieve a paradigm shift towards low-carbon and climate-resilient development pathways. The brief asserts that ambition is required in the design of funded activities and in the provision of financial resources to the Fund. The authors explain that a paradigm shift might imply moving to more programmatic approaches and that strong country ownership is essential as it will ensure that new ways of working endure in the long term. They argue that the GCF needs to provide clear incentives and guidance for ambitious proposals by governments and su ...Policy and Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change: Case study on flood mitigation infrastructure in India and Nepal
Das Partha J.; Bhuyan Himadri K.; International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) - ICIMOD, 2013This publication is the result of research conducted as a part of the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP). It explores the governance of flood mitigation infrastructure in parts of India and Nepal. It also covers the traditional coping and adaptation strategies of local communities to deal with floods, which are being increasingly challenged due to the changing nature of floods and other water hazards attributed largely to climate change. Floods are the most common water-induced hazard in the Hindu Kush. Government efforts to protect people from flood waters and mitigate the ...Climate justice: Equity and justice informing a new climate agreement
This paper explores the role of equity in the climate negotiations. It outlines the argument as to why climate change is an issue of injustice by examining the environmental challenges posed by climate change and links those challenges to socio-ecological and economic systems that undermine the rights of people, especially the poor, marginalized, and vulnerable. The paper then analyses the role of justice and equity in designing a new climate agreement and examines several perspectives to highlight those issues that must be addressed in the new agreement. The paper concludes by exploring the p ...
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