What is Climate Change? Mitigation and Adaptation in Romania
25 February 2015
25 February 2015
Romania is committed to moving towards a greener and more competitive low carbon economy that makes efficient use of resources and is resilient to climate risk. Therefore, the Government of Romania, through the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, has requested the World Bank to provide advisory services to help...
Forestry and the forest industry in a green economy
30 January 2015
30 January 2015
An effort is under way worldwide to better manage our planet's forest resources and better enhance their role in mitigating climate change. Forest loss and degradation in developing countries account for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Monitoring and reducing these emissions has been the key goal for the...
This publication presents a summary of a review of the design and performance of selected payments for environmental services and other incentive-based initiatives in four major tropical forest regions – the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin, the Miombo woodlands of eastern and southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. This report focuses...
Wildlife in a changing climate
18 June 2014
18 June 2014
This FAO publication analyses and presents how climate change affects or will likely affect wild animals and their habitats. Although climate change has already been observed and monitored over several decades, there are few long-term studies on how the phenomenon is affecting wildlife. There is growing evidence, however, that climate...
This book, prepared by the African Forest Forum, systematically presents climate change in the context of African forests, trees and wildlife resources. It includes information on the broader aspects of climate change and variability, an overview of the effects of climate change on African wildlife resources, and socioeconomic and policy...
Practical measures to tackle climate change: coastal forest buffer zones and shoreline change in Zanzibar, Tanzania
18 June 2014
18 June 2014
This report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization presents the results of analyses of changes to coastal forests (over a 50-year period) and practical actions to mitigate the unwanted effects of such change.
This publication by the Center for International Forestry Research presents the results of community-based forest management initiatives that were undertaken to explore opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers in developing countries to participate in schemes to mitigate climate change.
An assessment of the vulnerability of Australian forests to the impacts of climate change
17 June 2014
17 June 2014
This document provides an improved understanding of current knowledge of the likely biophysical and socioeconomic consequences of climate change for Australia’s native and planted forest regions. It assesses the vulnerability of Australian forests from the perspective of both resource use and environmental services, identifying particularly vulnerable forests and communities in...
This document by WWF presents the results of combined vulnerability analyses (biological, hydrological and socioeconomic). The results demonstrate the need for actions aimed at maintaining environmental services as well as the biological and cultural riches of the region. Priority adaptation measures include actions to develop and strengthen the capacities and...
Responding to climate change in national forests: a guidebook for developing adaptation options
17 June 2014
17 June 2014
This guidebook is a summary of current knowledge on climate-change adaptation taken from educational syntheses, specific tools, facilitated dialogues, workshops and case studies. It focuses specifically on topics and approaches that are relevant to and compatible with resource management in national forests and potentially on other United States federal lands....