The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) is seeking a consultant, who will support the operations and development of the CTCN in Africa. The position is physically located in the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Field Office in Dakar, Senegal.
In particular, the consultant will:
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is co-lead in the hosting and management of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN). The mission of the CTCN, the operational arm of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism, is to stimulate technology cooperation and to enhance the development and transfer of technologies to
The study is based on the fact that the production rise of renewable raw materials and the resulting increase in international trade. To ensure a sustainable biomass production and trade, international strategies for standards and certification systems are investigated and should be further developed. The project is based on current research and is aimed at working out concrete proposals for standards and certification systems and their implementation at the national, European and global level in a dialog with relevant stakeholders as an input to international processes
The paper presents the importance and relevance of green economies. It describes a green economy as one which results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. The report notes that moving towards a green economy has the potential to achieve sustainable development and poverty eradication. It further argues that in a number of important sectors such as agriculture, buildings, forestry and transport, a green economy delivers more jobs throughout the short, medium, and long term.
Food Security CASE Maps is an interactive visualization tool, developed in partnership with StatPlanet, to provide detailed information about a diversity of indicators, including subnational crop area and yields, national average calorie availability, and international trade flows. For more information, visit the Food Security CASE Maps blog at http://casemaps.ifpri.info.
An open and flexible global trading environment plays a constructive role in both climate change mitigation and adaptation. A new international climate change regime and global trade rules should ideally be mutually reinforceable.
This paper argues that climate change policies are mostly compatible with international trade law and that ratifying the Kyoto Protocol will close existing gaps or uncertainties for the benefit of participating Parties.
The papar examine the competitive effects of differential mitigation efforts on agricultural food production and on international trade. In doing this we employ the assumption that the average U.S. compliance caused cost increase would also occur in other complying countries. they consider implementation 1) unilaterally by the U.S., 2) by all Kyoto Protocol Annex I countries and 3) globally.
According to this article, agricultural productivity in both developing and developed countries will have to improve to achieve substantial increases in food production by 2050 while land and water resources become less abundant and the effects of climate change introduce much uncertainty. Already less resilient production areas will suffer the most, as temperatures will rise further in tropical and semi-tropical latitudes and water-scarce regions will face even drier conditions.
This report addresses the potential scale and geography of climate change in order to identify which populations and areas will be most affected and to help policy makers facilitate adaptation. The research uses computer modelling based on a pessimistic, optimistic and baseline middle ground projection of income and population growth, each combined with four possible climate change scenarios of varying severity and a fifth perfect mitigation scenario, i.e. a continuation of today's climate.