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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 New estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning and peat fires using MODIS. Collection 6 burned areas
- 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
- 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:- Website Agriculture Risk Financing in Southern Africa
- Website Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems
- Website Opportunities for Climate Finance in the Livestock Sector: Removing Obstacles and Realizing Potential
- Website The GEF and Climate Change: Catalyzing Transformation
- PDF Carbon finance possibilities for agriculture, forestry and other land use projects in a smallholder context
- Website Clearinghouse for financing development data - Smarter financing for development data
- PDF Climate change mitigation finance for smallholder agriculture: A guide book to harvesting soil carbon sequestration benefits
- Website Connecting multilateral climate finance to mitigation projects
- PDF FAO and the Green Climate Fund in brief
- PDF Green Climate Fund handbook for North Macedonia
- PDF Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation Initiative - FAST
- PDF Manual for climate investments of the private sector
- 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 From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- PDF National forest monitoring system assessment tool
- 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
- Website REDD+ MRV training modules
- PDF REDD+ and FLEGT: Working together to strengthen forest governance and mitigate climate change
- PDF Voluntary guidelines on national forest monitoring
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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 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 Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
- 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 Global guidelines for the restoration of degraded forests and landscapes in drylands
- 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:- Website Enhancing climate change mitigation through agriculture
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Building capacity on greenhouse gas inventories
A wide variety of learning materials for technical audiences to enhance capacity in estimating greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector and in preparing a national GHG inventory.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Assessing uncertainties in the national greenhouse gas inventory: a focus on land use
- PDF Estimating GHG in agriculture: A manual to address data requirements for developing countries
- Website Estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation using Tier 2 method
- Website Greenhouse gas assessment and mitigation in agriculture: concepts, methods and simulation tools
- Website IGES biennial update report: Database
- Website Joint OCB/GSP Training workshop for reporting soil Carbon Stock Change in national greenhouse gas inventories
- Website Preparing a greenhouse gas inventory under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory (NGHGI) for agriculture
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory (NGHGI) for land use
- PDF Understanding countries’ status and challenges for the estimation of carbon stock changes from mineral soils in national greenhouse gas ...
- Website Workshop materials on greenhouse gas inventory systems
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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:- 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 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
- PDF Ex-Ante Carbon balance Tool
- 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)
- PDF Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM): Model description. version 3.0
- 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 Extending social protection to rural populations: Perspectives for a common FAO and ILO approach – Executive summary
- PDF Framework for Environmental and Social Management
- 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
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Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector
E-learning courses, webinars and various materials to better understand the importance of forest-related topics under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Video Africa, the case of Ghana, developing a multi-purpose NFMS
- Video Asia, the case of Papua New Guinea: its path towards forest transparency
- PDF Boosting transparency of forest data for climate action
- PDF Building Global Capacity to Increase Transparency in the Forest Sector
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector: One year in numbers
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector: Two years in numbers.
- PDF Case Study Chile: The National Forest Monitoring System as part of the National Strategy on Climate Change and Vegetation Resources in Chile
- PDF Case study Bangladesh: An integrated national forest monitoring system for sustainable forest management and conservation in Bangladesh
- PDF Case study Costa Rica: Costa Rica’s progress in developing a national land use, land cover and ecosystems monitoring system
- PDF Case study Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Democratic Republic of the Congo establishes a national forest monitoring system to promote ...
- PDF Case study Ghana: Establishing a multi-purpose national forest monitoring system to improve land use monitoring capacities in Ghana
- PDF Case study Papua New Guinea: National forest monitoring system provides better data, and enhances capacity in Papua New Guinea
- PDF Enhancing forest targets and measures in nationally determined contributions
- Video Establishing and implementing a sustainable National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS): effects on the forest sector of a country
- Video Establishing and implementing sustainable national forest monitoring systems
- Website Forest Data and Transparency 'Zoom in' on the Experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Video Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action
- Video Forest data and transparency: ‘Zoom’ in on Costa Rica’s experience”
- Video Forest data for climate action: the importance of legal and institutional frameworks
- Website Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement
- Video From Measurement, Reporting and Verification to the Reinforced Transparency Framework
- PDF From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- PDF Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
- Video How to prepare for the transition from the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) framework
- Website Institutionalization of forest data
- PDF Inventarios Forestales Nacionales de América Latina y el Caribe: Hacia la armonización de la información forestal.
- Video Latin America, the case of Chile and Costa Rica: transparency, data accuracy, and institutionalization.
- Video Learning from experience to increase forest data transparency for climate action
- PDF Legal assessment to set up and operationalize a national forest monitoring system
- Website Mind the gap: Addressing national forest inventory capacity needs to support climate action
- Video Open And Transparent Forest Data: Innovation And Technology For Climate Action
- Website Open and Transparent: Forest data setting the course for green future under the Paris Agreement
- PDF Strengthening national forest monitoring systems through a comprehensive capacity needs assessment
- PDF Towards open and transparent forest data for climate action
- PDF What is the forest area of Lao People's Democratic Republic?
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Policymaking for climate change and forests
A wide variety of materials related to forestry policymaking in the context of climate change.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:
