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The Southern Voices programme launched a report the recent Bonn Climate meetings about “Southern Voices on Climate Policy Choices.” The report analyses experiences with advocacy on climate change by civil societies in the South, and is based on contributions by the climate networks in the Southern Voice programme.
Community radio is well recognized as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities. This article discusses lessons learned to date from the Climate Airwaves, an initiative aimed at developing new approaches for supporting community radio...
Coal – Energy for Sustainable Development examines the global energy challenge, coal’s role in clean energy and coal and sustainable development. The WCA also identifies three key recommendations which are necessary to deliver energy access for all:
- Ambitious global energy access targets...
This publication is the result of an initiative by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, with funding from the Global Environment Facility, to promote an exchange between Brazil and Africa on lessons learned about the role of community forestry as a strategy to achieve the goals of REDD+.
The results presented here are based on a factfinding mission to Brazil by policy makers and...
Drawing on pilot activities in Cameroon, Tanzania, and Fiji under the GEF-funded “Coastal Resilience to Climate Change” project, WWF has developed a methodology that can be used worldwide for assessing the vulnerability of mangrove ecosystems to the impacts of climate change (particularly sea level rise) and for developing adaptation strategies. This manual brings together a wealth of on-the-...
Closing the Loop, a review of Internews’ humanitarian information radio program launched in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake, argues that information provision should be a core component of any humanitarian assistance or development program. To be effective, the communications program must rely on continual research to identify the information needs of those affected by...
This publication informs on management and finance options to achieve emissions reductions and enhance other vital ecosystem services from peatlands. A decision support tree guides through opportunities for both cultivated and uncultivated peatlands. Methodologies and data available for quantifying GHG emissions from peatlands and organic soils are summarized and practical solutions are...
The Compendium highlights the challenges that domestic governments face in implementing their international commitments to climate change policy and the means through which those challenges can be overcome. It gathers 12 best practices in legal and institutional reform that exemplify promising methods of addressing mitigation, adaptation and finance at the domestic level. Several of these...
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