This webinar will provide information on how best to use the results of your assessment through active dissemination as well as how to help set the stage for future assessments. By examining how recent assessments have approached these matters,

Forest Carbon Assessment in the Amazon’s Indigenous and Protected Areas

Mar 5th, 2015 55m 42s

This webinar will bring together three of the collaborators on this work, Wayne Walker, Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center; Maria A Oliveira-Miranda, Senior Scientist, Provita and RAISG; and, Stephan Schwartzman, Director, Tropical

Doing a forest governance assessment—Practical tips and tricks

Feb 19th, 2015 49m 23s

This webinar focuses on planning and collecting data for your assessment. The discussion will be organized along 2 main challenges: Planning for Data Collection, helps practitioners refine their plans to produce practical tools for collecting

An introduction to the What, Why and How of forest governance assessment

Jan 20th, 2015 55m 18s

This webinar will begin with the reasons for why policymakers should concern themselves with forest governance. It will describe the FAO-PROFOR 3-pillar framework on forest governance. It will discuss how the framework can be used as an assessm

Building a holistic NAMA MRV on a CDM Standardized Baseline

Jun 18th, 2014 53m 39s

The webinar will provide an overview of how default emission factors developed as part of a standardized baseline can build the foundation of an easy-to-apply MRV framework using only the information on the area over which the NAMA intervention

Incubating Innovation for Rural Off-Grid Electrification: Presenting the Telecom-Energy Initiative

May 15th, 2014 35m 6s

Energy access is a key enhancing factor of poverty alleviation in most of the developing world. Extending grid infrastructure in rural areas is particularly difficult due to financial, commercial, regulatory as well as geographical constraints.

How can a tax shift support low emission development while building public acceptance?

May 15th, 2014 56m 57s

There is a growing base of evidence that a carbon tax, if well designed, can be a cost-effective way to reduce GHG emissions and promote low emission development. While more and more countries are pursuing such tax shifts (with other taxes bein

Understanding the FCPF Carbon Fund’s Methodological Frmwrk

May 8th, 2014 1h 23m

n December 2013, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund's Methodological Framework was approved by Carbon Fund Participants. It will guide the development of large-scale REDD+ programs aimed to protect tropical forests and en

Engaging the Private Sector in Fast Start NAMAs

Apr 9th, 2014 57m 50s

The understanding of the NAMA concept is still evolving and there is as of to date relatively little on the ground experience with turning the concept into concrete actions. NAMAs are well suited as holistic programmes but their success will be

Measuring, Reporting & Verification

Feb 5th, 2014 1h 8m

The important role in the on-going climate negotiations, especially in the context of new instruments like NAMAs.The goal of MRV systems is to develop a framework for evaluation that is consistent, systematic and transparent. While emission r

Strategic Planning for Climate-Smart Agriculture: How Can We Assess Synergies and Trade-Offs?

Jan 10th, 2014 47m 10s

Synergies and trade-offs are inherent in the attempt to achieve the triple wins of food security, increased resilience and mitigation to climate change. This webinar helps to develop a better understanding of economic and social synergies and t

Financing Energy Efficiency: Lessons from International Experience

Jan 3rd, 2014 49m 52s

Energy efficiency has been widely recognized as one of the most cost-effective option to mitigate climate change. But the implementation of energy efficiency has been far short of the potential due to a number of barriers, including those relat

Financing Private-Sector Led Off-Grid Electrification

Dec 24th, 2013 58m 32s

To effectively support private sector led off-grid electrification, we need to understand the financial challenges faced by energy supply companies, technology and business solutions providers and project developers. Different financing solutio

Setting up Programmes of Activities (PoA)

Dec 24th, 2013 49m 31s

Programmes of Activities (PoAs) have been introduced to overcome some of the challenges associated with implementing Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. PoA’s are of particular relevance in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) due to their

PoA: Experiences from the Field

Dec 19th, 2013 1h 6m

Scaling up Climate Action in Cities

Dec 19th, 2013 59m 31s

The World Bank Institute Climate Change Practice (WBICC) has initiated a comprehensive capacity building program on Scaling up Climate Action in Cities. The initiative aims to support the development of sustainable, climate-friendly cities thro

Reflection on the Doha Gateway and the way forward

Jan 16th, 2013 21m 13s

Climate Change action practitioners from around the world eagerly await each year the outcomes from the Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings. From November 26 to December 7, 2012, COP-18 took place in Doha, Qatar. What are the key outcomes?

Innovation Policies to Support Low Emission Development

Sep 29th, 2012 18m 22s

Meeting climate change goals requires significant efforts to diffuse existing technologies and to develop and deploy new ones. Public and private investment need to be ramped up by a combination of “technology-push” and “market-pull” policies.

Signals from Durban: Next Steps for Climate Change

Jan 19th, 2012 19m 38s

At 4:30 am on the morning of Sunday December 11, 2011, some 36 hours later than the official closing time, the 17th meeting so the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (or COP-17) came to an end in Durban. The 194 participat

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