Acuerdo de París sobre cambio climático e instrumentos conexos


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Recientemente se comprobó que el hielo del Ártico podría llegar a desaparecer mucho antes de la mitad de este siglo por el aumento de la temperatura de la tierra. Esta circunstancia, entre otros efectos, podría desencadenar en que el calentamiento global se acelere aún más puesto que este hielo es un gran depósito de metano -el gas de efecto invernadero más poderoso-, y sirve como espejo de la radiación del sol que entra al planeta. Este es apenas un ejemplo de lo que los científicos denominan retroalimentación positiva, a saber: que los efectos del cambio en el clima impulsan a su vez las causas de este fenómeno, en una suerte de efecto espiral que tiende a volverse cada vez más incontrolable. El Monitor de Vulnerabilidad Climática advirtió que de continuar las cosas como están el cambio climático junto con el sistema energético intensivo en carbono podrían llegar a causar 100 millones de muertes de seres humanos al 2030. Como humanidad hemos cambiado la composición química de la atmósfera y hemos alterado procesos naturales como el Ciclo del carbono y el efecto invernadero, que hacen posible la vida en el planeta. El cambio climático es una manifestación de lo anterior y es generado en su gran mayoría por actividades humanas como la producción y quema de combustibles fósiles -como el carbón, el petróleo y el gas- para satisfacer principalmente la demanda energética en el mundo y los cambios en el uso del suelo generados por actividades como la ganadería, la agricultura y la tala de árboles. Esta obra busca determinar hasta qué punto el Acuerdo de París sobre cambio climático adoptado en 2015 y demás instrumentos conexos, sirven al propósito de hacerle frente a un asunto que es, sin duda alguna, uno de los más importantes para nuestra era: ¿podrán quitarnos la venda de los ojos? Una venda que nos impide ver que tenemos que repensar nuestro rumbo como humanidad y como individuos, ya que nuestro comportamiento está alterando las condiciones que hacen que la tierra sea apta para la vida.







La diplomacia del clima de la Unión Europea


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La Diplomacia del Clima de la Unión Europea es la herramienta más poderosa de su acción exterior, con la que busca reafirmarse como una potencia normativa mundial que promueve la lucha contra el cambio climático a través de su apoyo al multilateralismo de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. Para ello, la Unión Europea participa en el diseño de políticas globales y de instrumentos normativos y de soft law, de manera que, tras décadas de ser receptora de propuestas internacionales, ha pasado a ser su promotora y quien como potencia normativa las defiende en las instancias internacionales. Sin embargo, el multilateralismo ya no es la única solución que defiende la Unión Europea porque no ha alcanzado los resultados deseados. Sin cuestionar los elementos normativos fundamentales del multilateralismo o limitar su alcance, la Unión Europea ha tenido que renovar sus acuerdos comerciales y de asociación, incorporando capítulos que promueven el respeto y el cumplimiento del Acuerdo de París sobre el cambio climático, como en el caso de los nuevos acuerdos con el Reino Unido tras el Brexit, o el Acuerdo del MERCOSUR o la relación estratégica con China




Glosario Del Banco Mundial


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This edition of the World Bank has been revised and expanded by the Terminology Unit in the Languages Services Division of the World Bank in collaboration with the English, Spanish, and French Translation Sections. The Glossary is intended to assist the Bank's translators and interpreters, other Bank staff using French and Spanish in their work, and free-lance translator's and interpreters employed by the Bank. For this reason, the Glossary contains not only financial and economic terminology and terms relating to the Bank's procedures and practices, but also terms that frequently occur in Bank documents, and others for which the Bank has a preferred equivalent. Although many of these terms, relating to such fields as agriculture, education, energy, housing, law, technology, and transportation, could be found in other sources, they have been assembled here for ease of reference. A list of acronyms occurring frequently in Bank texts (the terms to which they refer being found in the Glossary) and a list of international, regional, and national organizations will be found at the end of the Glossary.




Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation


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The central aim of this publication is to consider the key elements of a modern, comprehensive, and effective legal framework for successful management of protected areas. They provide practical guidance for all those involved in developing, improving, or reviewing national legislation on protected areas, be they legal drafters and practitioners, protected area managers, interested NGOs, or scholars. These guidelines include fifteen case studies, eight dealing with the protected area legislation of individual countries and six cases dealing with specific sites providing fundamental solutions that stand the test of time.




The Green Web


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This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.




Land Tenure and Rural Development


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This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.




FAO Strategy for Private Sector Engagement, 2021-2025


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This strategy specifically targets the different types of the private sector from large national and multinational corporations, to financial institutions, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), industry and trade organizations and consortia which represent private sector interests, farmers and farmers’ organizations, producers’ organizations and cooperatives and philanthropic foundations. At the same time, it also targets FAO Membership, as well as the general public who wish to learn more about FAO's strategy and ways of engaging with the private sector.




Sociétés Transnationales


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EBOOK: Sustaining Change in Universities


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·What can be done to ensure universities are well positioned to meet the challenges of the fast moving world of the 21st century? This is the central question addressed by Burton R. Clark in this significant new volume which greatly extends the case studies and concepts presented in his 1998 book, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities. The new volume draws on case studies of fourteen proactive institutions in the UK, Europe, Australia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States that extend analysis into the early years of the twenty-first century. The cumulative international coverage underpins a more fully developed conceptual framework offering insight into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities. This new conceptual framework shifts attention from transformation to sustainability rooted in a constructed steady state of change and a collegial approach to entrepreneurialism. It contains key elements necessary for universities to adapt successfully to the modern world. Lessons for reform can be drawn directly from both the individual case studies and the general framework. Overall the book offers a new form of university organization that is more self-reliant and manages to combine change with continuity, traditional academic values with new managerial values. Essential reading for university administrators, faculty members, students and researchers analysing higher education, and educational policymakers worldwide, this book advocates a highly proactive approach to university change and specifies a new basis for university self- reliance. Burton R. Clark is Allan M. Cartter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his career, he has taught at five leading US universities: Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Yale and UCLA. He has published widely on the nature of university organization and the realistic possibilties of reform, linking research for understanding with research for use.