Category: climate change
Kenya's Climate Change Action Plan
This presentation provides the background and aim of the low carbon scenario analysis, the highlights of the low carbon scenario analysis and the next steps and lessons learned.
Forest Conservation in Light of Climate Change
This presentation examines the potential effects of climate change upon Africa's forests. All eco-regions in Africa have been experiencing warming since the 1960s, a pattern which is expected to continue. The presentation looks at the IUCN approach to conservation amongst others, and its relavance to forestry in light of climate change. It recommends three conservation strategies - adaptation, accommodation and transformation - combined with better policies and great research in order to...
Gender, Climate Change and REDD+ in the Congo Basin forests of Central Africa
The Congo Basin region of Central Africa contains the second largest contiguous tropical rainforest in the world, which is an important source of livelihood for millions of people. It is also important for climate change adaptation, as well as mitigation policies on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). Men and women relate to and use the forest differently and so may experience the effects of climate change and REDD+ policies differently. Investigations through...
Forests and climate change in Latin America: Linking adaptation and mitigation
Climate change can be addressed by mitigation (reducing the sources or enhancing the sinks of greenhouse gases) and adaptation (reducing the impacts of climate change). Mitigation and adaptation present two fundamentally dissimilar approaches whose differences are now well documented. Forest ecosystems play an important role in both adaptation and mitigation and there is a need to explore the linkages between these two options in order to understand their trade-offs and synergies. In forests,...
Climate Change for Forest Policy-Makers
This publication is the outcome of a process initiated in 2009 with a series of national stakeholder workshops, aiming to support countries in the process of integrating climate change into their national forest programmes (NFPs). FAO and the NFP Facility thank the participants and the people who supported these workshops in Tanzania, Cambodia, Paraguay and South Africa.
The Economics of Climate Change
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change is a serious global threat, and it demands an urgent global response. This Review has assessed a wide range of evidence on the impacts of climatechange and on the economic costs, and has used a number of different techniques to assess costs and risks. From all of these perspectives, the evidence gathered by the Review leads to a simple conclusion: the benefits of strong and early action far ...
Climate mitigation and the future of tropical landscapes
Land-use change to meet 21st-century demands for food, fuel, andfiber will depend on many interactive factors, including globalpolicies limiting anthropogenic climate change and realized improvementsin agricultural productivity. Climate-change mitigation policieswill alter the decision-making environment for land management,and changes in agricultural productivitywill influence cultivated landexpansion.We explore towhat extent future increases in agriculturalproductivity might offset conversion...
