This Technology Transfer Advances Guinea's
- Nationally Determined Contribution to reduce 13% of the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2030 as compared to 1994.
An Environmental Information System (EIS) aims to respond to decision-makers’ needs for information on the evolution of the environment, and its impact on people’s lives and the natural resources on which they depend.
Since about 1.5 billion people in the world use traditional stoves for cooking (and heating), efforts to improve the efficiency of cookstoves have been increasingly popular in the developing world. Improved stoves come in different forms and sizes.
Agricultural ecosystems hold large carbon reserves (IPCC, 2001a), mostly in soil organic matter.Historically, these systems have lost more than 50 Pg Carbon, but some of this carbon lost can be recovered through improved management, thereby withdrawing atmospheric CO2 (Paustian et al., 1998; Lal, 1999, 2004a).
Energy poverty is a problem that has a disproportionate effect on women and girls, especially in rural areas. Many women in developing countries have to spend long hours gathering fuel and hauling water, using their own energy to carry heavy loads over long distances. As fuel wood becomes scarce due to over-harvesting, land clearing, or environmental degradation, many women are forced to travel further in search of fuel.
The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. The paper seeks to interpret the best information available to determine how close we are to a point of no return for a major forest “dieback” in the Amazon, and to identify some steps that might be taken to counter this process.
According to this book, fires are considered a potential threat to sustainable development because of their direct impacts on ecosystems, their contribution to carbon emissions and impacts on biodiversity. The estimate of area affected by fires in Indonesia in 1997/1998 is revised from 9.7 million hectares to 11.7 million hectares. The fires that resulted in forest degradation and deforestation had economic costs in the range of $1.62-2.7 billion. The valuation of costs associated with carbon emissions indicates that these may amount to as much as $2.8 billion.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) developed this system to provide daily satellite images of the Earth"s landmasses in near real time. True-color satellite images are available within a few hours of being collected, making the system a valuable resource for fire protection and management. The system can be a valuable resource for organizations such as ICIMOD, which use the images to track active fires and publish them in a web interface for regional member countries to address near real-time fire monitoring.
Developing the necessary policies to transform SSA’s infrastructure, natural and human resources in the near term, will play a large role in shaping SSA nations' growth going forward. It is crucial that SSA governments, development partners, civil society and the private sector all seize this opportunity to shift the region’s development.
along low-carbon pathways.