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MeetingMeeting documentForests and climate change: Progress since Paris, financing climate action and other emerging issues. Secretariat note of the Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC)
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
2017Also available in:
No results found.The Paris Agreement (December 2015) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) makes reference to the importance of conserving and enhancing carbon sinks and reservoirs and highlights the special role of forests in this regard. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureFAO's work on climate change: Forests and Climate Change 2016
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The publication aims to provide a broad range of data and statistics on forests, and the impact and benefits that forestry has on our environment. It also offers some general information and data about the impact forests and forestry can have in mitigating the effects of climate change, as well as information concerning how they are, in turn, affected by climate change. -
Book (series)Technical studyFAO Framework Methodology for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments of Forests and Forest Dependent People
A framework methodology
2019Also available in:
No results found.Negative impacts of climate change on forests threaten the delivery of crucial wood and non-wood goods and environmental services on which an estimated 1.6 billion people fully or partly depend. Assessment of the vulnerability of forests and forest-dependent people to climate change is a necessary first step for identifying the risks and the most vulnerable areas and people, and for developing measures for adaptation and targeting them for specific contexts. This publication provides practical technical guidance for forest vulnerability assessment in the context of climate change. It describes the elements that should be considered for different time horizons and outlines a structured approach for conducting these assessments. The framework will guide practitioners in conducting a step-by-step analysis and will facilitate the choice and use of appropriate tools and methods. Background information is provided separately in text boxes, to assist readers with differing amounts of experience in forestry, climate change and assessment practices. The publication will provide useful support to any vulnerability assessment with a forest- and tree-related component.
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Book (stand-alone)High-profileState of knowledge of soil biodiversity - Status, challenges and potentialities
Report 2020
2020Also available in:
No results found.There is increasing attention to the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce food or purify soil and water. This report is the result of an inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European Commission. It presents concisely the state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, the threats to it, and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields. It also represents a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the importance of soil biodiversity and highlighting its role in finding solutions to today's global threats. -
Book (stand-alone)High-profileRinderpest and its eradication 2022
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No results found.This book tells the story of rinderpest and its eradication. The focus is on the international coordination that came together after the Second World War in the confident belief that, with vaccines available, the eradication of rinderpest was a practical possibility. In both Africa and South Asia, beginning in the 1960s, there was an initial dramatic success through the coordinated vaccination of cattle across the continents. Unfortunately, follow-up measures could not prevent the return of epidemic rinderpest, albeit to a lesser extent. Chastened by failure, the international community refocused with renewed energy to achieve eradication. The vaccination programmes broadened to reflect a multidisciplinary approach to disease eradication. FAO and the OIE, together with international aid agencies, coordinated policy with the nation states and guided implementation of the era¬dication programmes until success was achieved. -
Book (series)Technical bookEuropean eel in the Mediterranean Sea
Outcomes of the GFCM research programme
2023Also available in:
No results found.European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a temperate, catadromous species with a wide distribution range that includes coastal, transitional and inland waters of Europe and the wider Mediterranean region. The unique and still not fully understood life cycle of this migratory species is assumed to begin with spawning in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic, after which oceanic larvae (leptocephali) are transported by currents across the Atlantic Ocean to the coasts of the species’ distribution range, where they metamorphose into glass eels that recruit to continental waters. Here, they live and grow until sexual maturity, which triggers their return to the Sargasso Sea. European eel stocks have been affected by numerous natural or human induced pressures including fishing and habitat-related impacts. In recent decades, this species has undergone a dramatic decline in abundance throughout its distribution range due to these causes. This publication compiles and presents the results of the analyses carried out under the umbrella of the GFCM Research programme on European eel, which was conducted from 2020 to 2022 as a concerted action joining the forces of ongoing work by research institutes, universities, and the relevant administrations of nine partner countries (Algeria, Albania, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Türkiye). The overall objective of the work carried out under the research programme was to provide the scientific basis for advice on management measures towards the recovery of the European eel population, using the evidence collected as a foundation for action tailored to the Mediterranean Sea.