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Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time. Receding forests, changing rainfall patterns and rising sea levels will exacerbate existing economic, political and humanitarian stresses and affect human development in all parts of the world. For example, it is estimated that up to 600 million more people in Africa could face malnutrition as agricultural systems break down due to climate change impacts. An additional 1.8 billion people could face water shortages, especially in Asia. If these forecasts are realized, decades of effort to eradicate poverty around the world would be undermined and the worlds progress towards the Millennium Development Goals would be compromised. Fortunately, increasing awareness about climate change provides the impetus to urgently push for a better, cleaner and more sustainable world. Countries have an opportunity to transform their economies and grow in a different way so that climate and development planning are integrated, and policies and actions lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce vulnerability to climate shocks, and deliver poverty reduction gains. policies and planning, so that projects that support development such as increased access to water, sanitation, food, and energy can better withstand the effects of climate change. 2. UNDP helps countries build more resilient societies. By putting climate change adaptation at the heart of poverty reduction efforts, with proper attention paid to the needs of more vulnerable groups like women and indigenous peoples, UNDP helps to ensure that climate actions are flexible and resilient enough to meet climate challenges now and in the future. At the same time, UNDP strives to reduce peoples exposure to climate-related disasters and, when they do hit, to limit the impact on peoples lives. 3. UNDP strengthens the capacity of countries to access, manage and account for climate finance. UNDP works with countries to access new and innovative sources of climate finance and help countries leverage limited sources of public finance to catalyze larger sources of climate capital. UNDP helps ensure countries can put policies into action that will lead them towards a green, low-emission and climateresilient future. UNDP also works to build capacity to assist developing countries to engage in international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
sec ctoral perspec ctives to a ho olistic approac ch that incorp porates clim mate change mitigation and adaptatio on into enviro onment and d sustainable e developmen nt goals and planning pro ocesses. Through the promotion of Green, Low- Emission, ClimateResilient Develo opment Strategies (LECRD DS), UNDP em mbraces s how climate e change responses an approach that recognizes e closely int tertwined with w developm ment choice es and are act tions involv ving multiple sectors, stakeholders s, and eco osystems. Gr reen LECRDS S will also e enable countries to mo obilize and employ e divers se financing and policy options o req quired for low w-emission an nd climate-res silient develop pment.
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UN NDP is assistin ng 45 countrie es, including Brazil, China a, India and d Mexico to implement national n strat tegies to pha ase out HC CFCs, industrial gases cont trolled by the e Montreal Protocol (MP). HCFCs are e used in critical sectors such as refrige eration d air conditio oning. UNDP brings policy y advice, technology and transfer, techni ical and fina ancial assistan nce from the MPs ultilateral Fun nd and helps countries to access other r funds Mu to maximize th he climate be enefits of HC CFCs phase-ou ut. The NDP MP programme fosters public-priv vate partnerships to UN ach hieve marke et transforma ation toward ds climate friendly f tec chnologies and a products, resulting in significant cobenefits including the reduction of appro oximately 3.7 million ton nnes of CO2-e eq/year.
Prom moting Gre een, Low-E Emission and a Clima ateResili ient Development Stra ategies
Increm mental reductions in gree enhouse gas s emissions and a climate vulnerabilit ties are impo ortant steps. However, lo ongterm climate chan nge management require es a shift fr rom