Various sources of disciplinary literature from the field of environmental policy [ 32, 33], land-use modelling, [ 15, 24, 34, 35] and national submissions to the UNFCCC [ 7, 30, 36] were used to select criteria, indicators and methods for a baseline method evaluation.
Prior to the 2015 international climate negotiations in Paris, countries submitted INDCs to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [1].
This metric is used in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [15] for whom Canada prepares the National Inventory Report.
We review in Figure 1 the completion status of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, as part of national communications (NC), by developing (non-Annex I) parties to UNFCCC [13].
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC 2006) refers to adaptation only in the context of the actual climate change situations.
It is probable that the increased frequency of recorded disasters results from a combination of climatic change and socioeconomic and demographic changes (UNFCCC 2006).
The general equation from FAO [34], recommended by UNFCCC [35], was used to estimate the above-ground biomass of the shade tree species.
A special report to the UNFCCC [14] concluded that a space and a time element are required for the definition of degradation.
At the 21st session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, COP21), a voluntary action plan, the '4 per 1000 Initiative: Soils for Food Security and Climate' was proposed under the Agenda for Action.
Although the exact nature of the changes in weather conditions, and extreme events are not known and still controversial, there is general consensus that extreme events will increase and may get worse (UNFCCC 2006).
One of its key themes in addressing L&D is "enhancing knowledge and understanding of comprehensive risk management approaches" (UNFCCC 2013, p. 6), which requires dealing with current and future climate risk changes (James et al. 2014).
