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Climate change
Foreign Assistance Act Sections 118/119 Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Analysis Best Practices Guide 2.0
The updated FAA 118/119 Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Analysis Best Practices Guide 2.0 provides practical how-to advice for USAID staff and contractors conducting the analysis.
Trade, markets and food
Tackling Global Environmental Challenges through the Integrated Approach Pilots – 3rd Progress Report
In the last quarter of 2015, the GEF Agencies, GEF Secretariat and STAP continued with consultation and outreach toward further development of the IAP programs.
Climate change
2020 – WFP and Climate Change Infographic
Among the most significant impacts of climate change is the potential increase of food insecurity and malnutrition. But, how exactly? This infographic shows how more frequent and intense droughts and floods affect the most vulnerable households at risk of hunger, and what WFP is doing to help people adapt and build resilience to climate change.
Climate change
Financing Adaptation to Climate Change at the GEF
The GEF supports adaptation to climate change in developing countries through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), which supports urgent, medium and long-term adaptation needs in least developed countries (LDCs), and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), accessible by all developing countries.
Climate change
Combating Global Warming with Technology
Global warming is an extremely serious and urgent issue. As much as the media can make it look otherwise when, for example, comparing it to cybersecurity issues, it’s not. There are no disputes within the scientific community, there is no need for fear mongering – if we don’t make radical changes before 2030, we’ll cause …
Climate change
Weather reports about climate change
If humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the average temperature of the Earth’s lower atmosphere could rise more than 4°C (7.2°F) by the end of the 21st century. But what does a rise in the global average temperature really mean? How would we experience it on a daily basis?
Environment, hydrometeorology and ecosystems
Cities in Europe and Central Asia : A Shifting Story of Urban Growth and Decline
This report is organized in four sections. Section one provides an overview of the context in which many ECA cities consolidated. This section includes a review of the key factors that shaped the urban systems of ECA, including a discussion of the implication of urbanizing under planned economies and a discussion of recent demographic trends …
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Environment, hydrometeorology and ecosystems
ANNUAL CROPLAND MAPPING USING REFERENCE LANDSAT TIME SERIES—A CASE STUDY IN CENTRAL ASIA
Mapping the spatial and temporal dynamics of cropland is an important prerequisite for regular crop condition monitoring, management of land and water resources, or tracing and understanding the environmental impacts of agriculture. Analyzing archives of satellite earth observations is a proven means to accurately identify and map croplands. However, existing maps of the annual cropland …
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