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This brochure describes the approach. Read more Publications AAP: Voices from the Ground The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) is a strategic climate change initiative designed to help create more informed climate change adaptation decision-making and more effective implementation of those decisions in each of the 20 participating countries. This document gathers media coverage of the AAP and describes some of the on the ground experiences of the programme. Read more Publications Achieving the MDGs: The role of energy services - Brazil, Mali, Philippines The study aims to help establish a better quantitative understanding of how the provision of energy services can lead to development outcomes that aid the achievement of the MDGs. It shows the relationship between energy service availability and the economic and social dimensions of the MDG framework by analyzing the developmental impacts of energy-related interventions in the three countries. Read more Publications Ad Melkert Speech to the Commission on Sustainable Development The Under Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator noted the billions who live without access to basic energy services and their resultant entrenchment in poverty. He spoke about the nexus between the achievement of the MDGs and the positive impact of that thrust towards alleviating the poverty entrenchment while mitigating climate change issues. Read more Publications Ambitious but achievable: Universal Access to Energy by 2030 This report by the Secretary General's Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC) calls for concerted action on two ambitious but achievable goals: universal access for 2-3 billion energy poor, and reducing global energy efficiency intensity by 40 percent by 2030. The report also calls for the development community to make energy a major institutional priority. Read more Publications Annual Performance Report of UNDP supported GEF financed projects (2009-2010) The Report highlights progress made in 2010 and results achieved by a sub-set of UNDP supported programmes and projects, all of which received some financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) alongside that of other co-financers, and have been under implementation for more than one year as of 30 June 2009. Read more Publications Applying an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management: focus on seamounts of the southern Indian ocean In 2009, UNDP-GEF and IUCN began collaborating on a pilot Internati Read more Publications Belarus Project Guidebook on Peatland Rehabilitation The report provides a general description of the hydrology of natural, damaged mires and depleted peatlands, as well as technical approaches and methods of restoration of hydrological regimes currently applied in international practice and falling within the framework of the UNDP-GEF project on re-naturalization of degraded peatlands in Belarus. Read more Publications Beyond Carbon: Ecosystem-based Benefits of REDD+ Forests have come under increasing pressure from human activity in Read more View More