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Add the result to your favourites Refine your searchChallenges and opportunities for National Meteorological Services of Least Developed Countries
Obasi G.O.P; World Meteorological Organization (WMO); Regional Workshop on Management, Strengthening Capacity Building of the National Meteorological Services of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Asia - WMO, 1998 (SG's lectures, speeches, statements, 213)EnglishThe National Adaptation Plan Process: a brief overview
UNFCCC, 2013Adapting to climate change is becoming a routine and necessary component of planning at all levels. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the national adaptation plan (NAP) process as a way to facilitate adaptation planning in least developed countries (LDCs) and other developing countries.EnglishBest practices and lessons learned in addressing adaptation in the least developped countries
UNFCCC, 2013This publication was prepared by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group with support from the UNFCCC secretariat Adaptation Programme. In carrying out this task, valuable assistance and advice was received from members of the teams working on national adaptation programmes of action in least developed countries, and representatives of the Global Environment Facility and its agencies.EnglishOcean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World
Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and seafood for all or part of their diets. The changes may reduce the amount of wild caught seafood that can be supplied by the oceans and also redistribute species, changing the locations at which seafood can be caught and creating instability for ocean-based food security, or seafood security. This report ranks nations based on the seafood security hardships they may experience by the middle of this century due to changing ocean conditions from ...EnglishCDP Background Paper, 15. Climate change vulnerability and the identification of least developed countries
This paper reviews the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying least developed countries (LDCs). Taking a sustainable development perspective, it argues that climate change should be seen as an aggravating factor of existing handicaps and many indicators used to identify LDCs already capture relevant structural vulnerabilities to climate change. However, the paper proposes some refinements in the LDC criteria to better capture vulnerabilities from natural disasters and in coastal areas. These refinements affected the vulnerability ranking in the recent triennial review, but had no ...EnglishClimate change and food security in South Asia
World Meteorological Organization (WMO); Sivakumar Mannava V.K.; Faiz S.M.A.; et al. - Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2011Selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia from 25 to 29 August 2008 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, organized by WMO, FAO and the Ohio State University.EnglishRapports sur la formation professionnelle du personnel météorologique
Rapport No. 1: Le problème de la formation professionnelle du personnel météorologique de tous grades dans les pays insuffisamment développés.
Rapport No.2: Plan d'aménagement d'un réseau d'enseignement professionnel de la météorologie en Afrique.French, EnglishReports on meteorological training
Report No. 1: The problem of the professional training of Meteorological personnel of all grades in the Less-Developped Countries.
Report No. 2: Plan for the development of Professional meteorological training in Africa.English, FrenchPays les moins avancés - Meilleures pratiques et enseignements
CCNUCC, 2012Lors de la seizième session de la Conférence des Parties à Cancْn, Mexique, en décembre 2010, les gouvernements ont reconnu en outre qu’il faut accorder la même priorité à l’adaptation qu’à l’atténuation, et adopté à cet effet le Cadre de Cancْn pour l’adaptation en vue de renforcer les actions dans ce domaine. Ce cadre comprend un mécanisme permettant d’aider les PMA parties, grâce à l’expérience acquise avec les PANA, à élaborer et mettre en oeuvre des plans d’adaptation nationaux, et invite d’autres pays en développement parties à appliquer les modalités proposées pour appuyer ces plans. C’ ...French, EnglishLeast Developed Countries Expert Group - Best Practicies and Lessons Learned
UNFCCC, 2012At the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2010, governments further recognized that adaptation must be addressed with the same priority as mitigation, and adopted the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) to enhance action on adaptation. The CAF includes a process to enable LDC Parties, building upon their experience with the NAPAs, to formulate and implement national adaptation plans and an invitation to other developing country Parties to employ the modalities formulated to support those plans. It is in this context that other Parties have shown inc ...English, FrenchПогода, климат, вода и устойчивое развитие
Russian, English; French; SpanishTiempo, Clima, Agua y Desarrollo Sostenible
Spanish, English; French; RussianInternational Water Management Institute (IWMI)
WMI targets water and land management challenges faced by poor communities in the developing world/or in developing countries and through this contributes towards the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing poverty, hunger and maintaining a sustainable environment. These are also the goals of the CGIAR.English
