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Methodologies and guidelines for greenhouse gas assessments
FAO methodologies to quantify greenhouse gas emissions arising from different agricultural sources and to identify mitigation opportunities.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Greenhouse gas emissions and fossil energy use from poultry supply chains: Guidelines for assessment
- PDF Greenhouse gas emissions and fossil energy use from small ruminant supply chains. Guidelines for assessment.
- PDF Guidance for setting up and enhancing national technical teams for GHG inventories in developing countries
- PDF Guidance for the standardized greenhouse assessment of agriculture, forestry and other land use projects
- PDF Livestock Activity Data Guidance (L-ADG)
- PDF Methane emissions in livestock and rice systems
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part V: household food consumption.
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems Part VI: fluorinated gas emissions
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems – Part III: energy use in fertilizer manufacturing, food processing, packaging, ...
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part II: waste disposal.
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part I: domestic food transport.
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part IV: Pesticide manufacturing.
- PDF Smallholder dairy methodology
- Website 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- Website 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- Website An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2022 Report
- PDF Emissions Gap Report 2021
- Website Emissions Gap Report 2022
- Website Emissions Gap Report 2023
- Website Global Database of National GHG Inventory (GHGI) Capacity in Developing Countries
- Website Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Sustainable Land Management : Quick Guidance for Users
- PDF Greenhouse gas emissions ruminant supply chains: A global life cycle assessment
- PDF Methane emissions in livestock and rice systems
- PDF Policy Strategies and Challenges for Climate Change Mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Sector
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Damage and loss
This collection introduces the concept of "loss and damage" caused by climate change-related effects. It is focused on the agriculture sector and the environmental aspects.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF FAO’s methodology for damage and loss assessment in agriculture
- PDF Notes on an information system on damage and losses from disasters in agriculture, fisheries and forestry
- PDF Loss and damage and agrifood systems
- PDF Climate Finance for Addressing Loss and Damage
- PDF Damage and losses due to weather and climate-related disasters in agricultural sectors
- Website Data and Digital Maturity for Disaster Risk Reduction: Informing the Next Generation of Disaster Loss and Damage Databases
- Website Introduction to loss and damage
- Website Measuring Disaster Crop Production Losses Using Survey Microdata Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
- PDF The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
- Website Using FAO methodology to compute Damage and Loss
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Official UNFCCC documents on the Enhanced Transparency Framework
This collection provides links to official United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) documents, decisions and resources on the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF).The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold: -
Greenhouse gas emissions from burning of biomass
A list of resources to understand the methodologies related to monitoring and reporting ghg related emissions.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website ESA Climate Office - Fire
- Website European Forest Fire Information System - EFFIS
- Website FAOSTAT - Fires
- Website Fire Information for Resource Management System
- Website Fire management Voluntary guidelines: Principles and strategic actions
- Website Forest fire management
- Website GOFC/GOLD-Fire Implementation Team
- Website Global Wildfire Information System
- Website New estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning and peat fires using MODIS. Collection 6 burned areas
- PDF Taming Wildfires in the Context of Climate Change
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Guidelines on leveraging finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation
This collection contains guidelines on accessing and leveraging finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation - including Green Climate Funds.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Carbon finance possibilities for agriculture, forestry and other land use projects in a smallholder context
- PDF Climate change mitigation finance for smallholder agriculture: A guide book to harvesting soil carbon sequestration benefits
- PDF Green Climate Fund handbook for North Macedonia
- PDF Manual for climate investments of the private sector
- Website Agriculture Risk Financing in Southern Africa
- Website Clearinghouse for financing development data - Smarter financing for development data
- Website Connecting multilateral climate finance to mitigation projects
- Website Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems
- PDF FAO and the Green Climate Fund in brief
- PDF Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation Initiative - FAST
- Website Opportunities for Climate Finance in the Livestock Sector: Removing Obstacles and Realizing Potential
- Website The GEF and Climate Change: Catalyzing Transformation
- Video The Green Climate Fund opens up new opportunities for North Macedonia to enhance climate action
- PDF The accreditation process of the Green Climate Fund
- PDF The accreditation process of the Green Climate Fund (with a focus on the Republic of North Macedonia)
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Reporting on climate change activities in the forestry sector
Methodologies, guidelines and training modules on how to conduct climate change reporting activities specifically in the forestry sector.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Integrating forest and landscape restoration into national forest monitoring systems
- PDF National forest monitoring systems: Monitoring and measurement, reporting and verification in the context of REDD+ activities
- PDF Voluntary guidelines on national forest monitoring
- PDF From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- PDF National forest monitoring system assessment tool
- Website REDD+ MRV training modules
- PDF REDD+ and FLEGT: Working together to strengthen forest governance and mitigate climate change
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The role of forests in tackling climate change
A wide variety of materials on how forests can play a role in tackling climate change.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
- PDF Global guidelines for the restoration of degraded forests and landscapes in drylands
- PDF The economics of climate change mitigation options in the forest sector
- PDF Building climate-resilient dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral production systems
- PDF Capacity Building on National Forest Information Analysis and Reporting for Enhancing Credibility of National Climate Change and REDD+ Implementation
- PDF Forest and farm producers – climate-change sentinels
- PDF Forests and climate change
- PDF Forests and climate change
- PDF Forests and climate change
- PDF Forests, rangelands and climate change in southern Africa
- PDF The key role of forest and landscape restoration in climate action
- PDF The national forest monitoring system as part of the National Strategy on Climate Change and Vegetation Resources in Chile: Applying ...
- PDF Transformational change to reduce deforestation and climate change impacts
- Website UN-REDD Programme
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Mitigating climate change through agriculture
The agriculture sector contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions but can also contribute to global mitigation efforts. Studies to inform policy are presented in this collection.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Achieving transformational change in land use and climate change
- Website AgLED Resource Platform
- Website Agriculture Methodology
- PDF Climate change mitigation
- PDF Climate change mitigation options in agrifood systems
- PDF Comunidades rurales bajas en carbono: Aumentando la resiliencia y mitigando el cambio climático para el desarrollo rural: una experiencia en Honduras
- Website Enhancing climate change mitigation through agriculture
- PDF How can agrifood trade support climate change mitigation?
- PDF Low carbon rural communities: Enhancing resilience and mitigating climate change for rural development: one experience in Honduras
- Website Policy strategies and challenges for climate change mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use (AFOLU) sector
- Website Revising Public Agricultural Support to Mitigate Climate Change
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Tools for greenhouse gas assessments
A series of tools and databases to support countries in assessing GHG emissions and removals from the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector through useful tools.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for value chains
- PDF Ex-Ante Carbon balance Tool
- PDF Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM): Model description. version 3.0
- Website AFOLU Carbon Calculator
- Website Agriculture and Land Use national Greenhouse Gas Inventory software (ALU)
- Website Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Mitigation Option Tool
- Website Collect Earth
- Website Cool Farm Tool
- Website EPA. 2020. U.S. EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems
- Website EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT)
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) for value chains
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool | EX-ACT
- PDF Emissions due to agriculture: Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
- Website Emissions overview
- PDF Estimating GHG emissions and carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and other land use with EX-ACT
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Agriculture
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Land use
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions intensities
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions shares
- Website GLEAM v 3.0 Dashboard
- Website Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)
- Website Global database of greenhouse gas emissions related to feed crops
- Website Global database of national greenhouse gas inventory capacity in developing countries
- Website IPCC 2020. IPCC Inventory Software
- Website Quality assurance/Quality control (QA/QC) and verification
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Social protection strategies and climate change
Resources on how inclusive social protection strategies can safeguard the livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable and increase their resilience to climate change.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Framework for Environmental and Social Management
- PDF Extending social protection to rural populations: Perspectives for a common FAO and ILO approach – Executive summary
- Website Mainstreaming gender, youth, and social inclusion
- PDF Managing climate risks through social protection
- Website Managing climate risks through social protection
- PDF Social protection and climate change
- PDF Social protection and resilience: Supporting livelihoods in protracted crises and in fragile and humanitarian contexts
- PDF Social protection, emergency response, resilience and climate change. A new interactive tool
- PDF Strengthening Climate Resilience through People Centered Approaches: Farmer Field Schools and Dimitra Clubs in Senegal
