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ProjectStrengthening Capacities for Improving Climate Action in Agriculture - TCP/ARM/3805 2024
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No results found.Owing to the vulnerability of its ecosystems and the occurrence of frequent natural disasters, Armenia is particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change. As temperatures rise, the country is likely to experience the expansion of drylands, loss of forest cover, range shifts of certain species, flooding, landslides, and drought. These phenomena will have deleterious effects on the country’s poor rural communities, who largely depend on subsistence farming. To mitigate the above-mentioned effects of a changing climate, Armenia has expressed a strong commitment to implementing adaptation measures in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors, among others, and to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). In 2018, Armenia joined the NDC Partnership and established an NDC Partnership Support Unit. The Unit then launched an initiative designed to build national capacity to develop, select, prioritize and carry out projects and activities that contribute to the implementation of the country’s NDC priorities, and to monitor these projects and activities. -
Book (series)Evaluation of FAO’s support to climate action (SDG 13) and the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change (2017) 2021
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No results found.This evaluation assesses the extent to which FAO adopted an effective, coherent and transformative approach to its work on climate action from 2015 to 2020, by contributing to the achievement of SDG 13 targets and the Paris Agreement. The methodology included portfolio analysis, quantitative content analysis of over 500 documents, participatory stakeholder workshops, desk reviews, interviews with 488 stakeholders, analysis of key FAO products, 3 global surveys, and 13 country case studies. The evaluation’s findings are (i) FAO’s Strategic Framework is aligned with SDG 13 and the Paris Agreement. However, FAO has not expressed a long-term vision on its leadership role in agriculture for climate action; nor does FAO governance yet reflect a clear and strategic focus on its mission on climate action; (ii) The 2017 Climate Change Strategy has effectively supported FAO’s work, but it is not fully integrated into corporate decision-making; (iii) FAO has made relevant contributions by supporting national capacity building for climate action; (iv) FAO’s contributions to SDG 13 and the uptake of products and tools are not systematically monitored and reported; (v) There is little alignment of portfolios between divisions and no systematic approach to trade-offs. Consequently, the root causes of climate change on agriculture are not being addressed in an integrated way; (vi) FAO has strong capacity, but the current business model results in uneven distribution of human and financial resources and in fragmented, short-term projects reach; (vii) FAO contributed to climate adaptation and mitigation by collaborating with Members and other partners, although it has engaged less in innovative partnerships with the private sector, financing institutions and civil society; (viii) FAO has progressed on the inclusion of gender-specific climate action initiatives. The recommendations of the evaluation include developing a corporate narrative on climate change and food systems; formulating a new Climate Change Strategy and action plan; improving the climate change labelling of its project portfolio; mainstreaming climate action into all offices, divisions and levels, and including coordination and guidance to embed procedures in the project cycle, quality assurance and learning mechanisms; adopting a climate action-focused programmatic approach; running an assessment to identify capacity gaps, needs and opportunities and, accordingly, strengthening the capacity of staffing, funding and inter-office communication; enhancing its partnerships and seeking out innovative partnerships; and mainstreaming the core “leave no one behind” by including women, youth, the extreme poor, indigenous peoples and other vulnerable groups. -
ProjectStrengthening Country Capacities to Implement Climate Action through Enhanced Tools and Knowledge Sharing - GCP/GLO/998/GER 2019
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No results found.The KoroniviaJoint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) decision (decision 4/CP.23) was reached at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2017 (COP23). This landmark decision officially acknowledges the significance of countries’ agriculture sectors in adapting to and mitigating climate change. It also recognizes that to achieve greater results, it is necessary to combine scientific and technical negotiations with exchanges on how to facilitate implementation. A number of tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural sectors are of mandatory use by most international finance institutions and multilateral development banks, when designing and proposing new investments and projects concerning agriculture sectors. However, most of these tools were developed using methodologies for measuring greenhouse gas emissions issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and will soon become obsolete, owing to the refinement of these methodologies in May 2019. In addition, negotiators and stakeholders involved in the KJWA process call for ad hoc digested information related to the different topics covered by the decision. This information should also be available in French and Spanish, to ensure wider access to the information by more technical staff within the different ministries working at the nexus of agriculture and climate change.
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