Over the past two years, the FAO and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th and 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets Forests and Climate Change After Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific Perspective and Forests and Climate Change After Cancun: An Asia-Pacific Perspective were distributed widely and very well received.

This note seeks to map where agriculture will be discussed both specifically and more indirectly at the forthcoming Bonn Climate Talks. It is indicative rather than exhaustive and is meant to help participants follow agenda items of relevance to agriculture.

Following the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, in 2011, international climate policy has taken a

The simplest way to estimate CO2 emission from fossil fuel combustion is assuming that the carbon in the fuel is released into the atmosphere in the short or the long run. Short‐term emissions are defined within the IPCC Guidelines as those occurring within twenty years of the fuel use and are almost entirely reported in the fuel combustion module. Long‐term CO2 emissions result from the final oxidation of long‐life materials manufactured from fuel carbon and are usually emissions from waste destruction. This methodology is called the top‐down approach.

Experts on Climate Change issues from BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) met and discussed climate equity over several meetings in 2010 and 2011. This group included a Prayas representative and has prepared ‘a synthesis document on the issue of equitable access to sustainable development’. This publication presents the richness of approaches among BASIC experts and the introductory joint chapter synthesises several common elements between these approaches, while respecting differences.

The report is an effort to inform project developers and policy-makers about the main lessons learned by the BioCarbon Fund while accompanying the development of more than 20 A/R CDM forest projects in 16 countries since it started operations in 2004. It sheds light on opportunities the CDM offers to the forestry sector and also on the challenges encountered by project developers when complying with the regulatory requirements.

India's submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat on climate change.