Uruguay case study: EbA in a coastal zone. Objective: increase resilience and decrease ecosystems and communities vulnerability to climate change

Module 1 on why climate-smart agriculture, forestry and fisheries Module 2 on managing landscapes for climate-smart agricultural ecosystems Module 3 on water management Module 4 on soils and their management for CSA Module 5 on energy Module 6 on conservation and sustainable use for genetic resources for food and agriculture Module 7 on crop production Module 8 livestock Module 9 on climate-smart forestry Module 10 on climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture Module 11 on sustainable and inclusive food value chains Module 12 on local Module 13 on national policies and programs Module

Samoa"s Safai village was destroyed by the cyclones of 1990 and 1991.ÍMore than 80% of the homes located on the coast were decimated by strong winds and surging waves. The Safai village members, their land, and local ecosystems remain vulnerable to climate change impacts. This projectÍaimed to reduce the vulnerability of Safai village and the surrounding ecosystems to the impacts of climate change.Í

Samoa"s Safai village was destroyed by the cyclones of 1990 and 1991.ÍMore than 80% of the homes located on the coast were decimated by strong winds and surging waves. The Safai village members, their land, and local ecosystems remain vulnerable to climate change impacts. This projectÍaimed to reduce the vulnerability of Safai village and the surrounding ecosystems to the impacts of climate change.Í

This second annual State of the Forest Carbon Markets tracks, reports, and analyses trends in global transactions of emissions reductions generated from forest carbon projects. The information in this report is primarily based on data collected from respondents to Ecosystem Marketplace’s 2010 forest carbon project developer’s survey, combined with data from the 2009 State of the Forest Carbon Market Report and the 2011 State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report.

The document proposes a “Global Green New Deal” emulating Roosevelt’s New Deal (1930) to overcome the current global recession and secure a long-term economic recovery. The main argument is that economic stability and poverty alleviation cannot be achieved without considering and investing in the preservation of environmental resources. The report notes that the current global economic recession has caused a decline in the global per capita income contracts with millions of people consigned to poverty.

Although the voluntary carbon market is booming, the quantitative data regarding these markets has been sorely lacking. In order to address this, the Ecosystem Marketplace, in its second annual report, looks at how the voluntary carbon market has grown in recent years; where carbon offset projects are being funded; who is buying the offsets and why; what types of projects are most popular; and what type of growth is expected in the market.

Despite the adoption of many international agreements over the last decades, degradation of forests and deforestation has continued. Since this is largely due to the market's failure to account for forests' multifunctionality, this issue argues that a new, holistic approach is necessary to ensure sustainable forest management (SFM) is adequately supported and financed. Against this background, 35 articles explore the role of:

This report brings together a review of known facts about the impacts of climate variability in the four major climate sensitive regions in India, namely, the Himalayan region, the North-Eastern region, the Western Ghats and the Coastal region. Further, it presents an assessment of the impacts of climate change in the 2030s on four key sectors of the economy that are climate dependent, namely, Agriculture, Water, Natural Ecosystems and Biodiversity and Human Health.

The Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) is a global network of forest research plots and scientists dedicated to the study of tropical and temperate forest function and diversity. The multi-institutional network comprises close to 50 forest research plots across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, with a strong focus on tropical regions. CTFS monitors the growth and survival of approximately 4.5 million trees and 8,500 species.