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Sustainable livestock to tackle climate change
A wide variety of useful resources to accelerate the sustainable development of livestock supply chains and to support coherent climate actions.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation using Tier 2 method
- PDF Cameroon moves towards low-carbon livestock systems
- PDF Climate change and the global dairy cattle sector
- PDF Climate smart livestock production in Ecuador
- PDF Five practical actions towards low-carbon livestock
- Website GLEAM v 3.0 Dashboard
- Website Global agenda for sustainable livestock
- PDF Improving efficiency of small ruminants productions for reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity
- Video Introducing the Global Agenda of Action in support of sustainable livestock sector development
- PDF Livestock and climate change
- Website Livestock environmental assessment and performance partnership (LEAP)
- PDF Livestock solutions for climate change
- Website Low carbon livestock development in Kyrgyzstan
- PDF Pathways towards lower emissions
- PDF Piloting the Climate-Smart Approach in the Livestock Production Systems
- PDF Prioritizing the reduction of methane in livestock climate actions in East Africa
- PDF Tackling climate change through livestock
- Website The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases: Livestock research group
- PDF The role of animal health in national climate commitments
- PDF Understanding the role of ruminant systems on greenhouse gas emissions and soil health in selected Central Asian countries
- PDF Understanding the role of ruminant systems on greenhouse gas emissions and soil health in selected Central Asian countries
- Website Webinars on livestock
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Resources to support and guide the international negotiations
This collection collects relevant materials created to be utilized in different phases of the negotiation procedure and reports specific cases.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold: -
Applying the climate-smart approach
Studies describing the application of the climate-smart approach to natural resources and agriculture management systems.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Climate-smart forestry
- Website Climate-smart livestock production
- Website Climate-smart soil and land management
- PDF "Energy-Smart" food for people and climate
- PDF Climate-smart forestry
- PDF Compendium on climate-smart irrigation: Concepts, evidence and options for a climate-smart approach to improving the performance of irrigated ...
- PDF Measuring climate co-benefits of livestock development in Cameroon
- PDF Solar-powered irrigation systems: A clean-energy, low-emission option for irrigation development and modernization
- PDF Supplemental irrigation: A promising climate-smart practice for dryland agriculture
- PDF Supporting agricultural extension towards climate-smart agriculture: An overview of existing tools
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Climate change and biodiversity
A collection of materials on climate change and biodiversity.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold: -
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:- Website Measurement, reporting and verification for environmental integrity: Application
- PDF From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- PDF Integrating forest and landscape restoration into national forest monitoring systems
- PDF National forest monitoring system assessment tool
- 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
- Website Technological innovation driving transparent forest monitoring and reporting for climate action
- PDF Voluntary guidelines on national forest monitoring
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E-learning courses for national GHG inventories
This collection contains a series of FAO e-learning courses on national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories for agriculture and Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) to build and strengthen the technical capacity for estimating GHG emissions according to the 2006 IPCC guidelines, as mandatory requirement under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). The courses are freely available...The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold: -
Tools for climate and disaster risk assessment
A wide variety of learning materials for technical audiences including toolkits, concepts, policies, practices, webinars and techniques for ensuring that risks are assessed and managed to support mainstreaming of climate and disaster resilience into key development policies, programmes, and projects in the agriculture sector and ultimately food security.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Introduction to FAO's damage and loss assessment methodology
- Website Screening for climate change and disaster risks in development projects
- Website Agricultural Adaptation (AgriAdapt) Tool
- PDF Building resilience into watersheds
- Other Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI) tool
- Website Climate Risk Toolbox
- PDF Climate Risk Toolbox – Guiding material for climate risk screening
- Website Climate and disaster risk screening tools
- PDF Climate resilient practices. Typology and guiding material for climate risk screening
- PDF Climate risk assessment at community level in the agriculture sector
- PDF Disaster risk management systems analysis: A guidebook
- PDF FAO’s Damage and Loss Assessment methodology to monitor the Sendai Framework’s Indicator C2 and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF FAO’s methodology for damage and loss assessment in agriculture
- Website Integrating Climate Change and Natural Disasters in the Economic Analysis of Projects : A Disaster and Climate Risk Stress Test Methodology
- PDF Mainstreaming climate risk management into FAO programming
- PDF National and policy climate and disaster risk screening tool
- PDF Overview of FAO’s damage and loss assessment methodology e-learning course
- PDF The livelihood assessment toolkit. Analysing and responding to the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people
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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
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory (NGHGI) for agriculture
- Website Estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation using Tier 2 method
- Website Preparing a greenhouse gas inventory under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory (NGHGI) for land use
- PDF Estimating GHG in agriculture: A manual to address data requirements for developing countries
- 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
- 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 Using EX-ACT to estimate the mitigation potential of agricultural interventions
- 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
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories. The file input template
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories. The tool
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Learning materials on ecosystem-based adaptation in the agriculture sector
Ecosystem-based adaptation is a nature-based solution for building the resilience of the food and agriculture sector to climate change. The materials presented in this section include studies, guidelines and policies for evaluating and valuing the benefits, costs and impacts of ecosystem-based adaptation measures.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Working with nature to adapt to a changing climate
- Website Building Climate Resilience through Ecosystem-based Adaptation Planning
- PDF Ecosystem restoration for people, nature and climate
- PDF Ecosystem-based adaptation in the agriculture sector: A nature-based solution for building the resilience of the food and agriculture sector to ...
- PDF Forest-based adaptation: transformational adaptation through forests and trees
- Website Guidelines for Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation into National Adaptation Plans: Supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines
- PDF Revisión científica del impacto del cambio climático en las plagas de las plantas
- PDF Scientific review of the impact of climate change on plant pests: A global challenge to prevent and mitigate plant-pest risks in agriculture, ...