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In the Sacred Valley one development organization is doing things differently to help high-altitude communities help themselves.

Starting in 2010, the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development...

The Warsaw Framework for REDD+ consolidates the requirements that must be met in order to receive results-based payments, however these requirements are somewhat broad in the interests of flexibility and preserving national sovereignty. This is particularly true in the case of the REDD+ safeguards, which must be “addressed and respected”. The question is how best to do this? In order to ensure...

The 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study, covering 98 countries plus the European Union which are together responsible for 93 per cent of global emissions, will be presented to delegates tomorrow (2 June) in Bonn, Germany, where the latest round of United Nations climate change...

The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Durban, South Africa, in November–December 2011 reached a decision known as the Durban Platform. It launched “a new process to develop a protocol, another legal...

This paper aims to better understand the link between Latin American countries’ proposed climate actions before 2020 and their post-2020 targets under a Paris agreement. We look at why Latin American climate policies and pledges merit attention, and review how Latin American nations...

As climate negotiations gather momentum, it is not too late to take action on agriculture, the sector that can ensure our future food security and play a key role in adapting to climate change and mitigate future greenhouse gas emissions.

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Adaptation responses are needed to address the existing levels of climate variability and to prepare for future climate impacts. There is wide agreement that adaptation is an important issue and would benefit from being enhanced through more effective action and better planning. The prominence of adaptation in the UNFCCC negotiations has increased, in part as the scientific evidence has become...
This study provides an overview of projected greenhouse gas emissions in seven major emitting countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and the United States) up to 2030, resulting from current, planned and selected enhanced mitigation policies. The emission projection associated with the enhanced mitigation policies shows that by replicating ‘best-in-class’ policies or...

One way animals and plants can cope with climate change is to relocate. Research shows some species are already shifting to higher ground or towards the poles in search of...

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