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Engaging the Public in Critical Disaster Planning and Decision Making:...

Engaging the Public in Critical Disaster Planning and Decision Making is the summary of a workshop held in March 2013 to discuss the key principles of public engagement during the development of...

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Our Planet: The Future is Priceless, Put a Price on Carbon

UNEP Publication – The Future is Priceless, Put a Price on Carbon: This issue focuses on the range of climate change issues to be discussed at the COP19 in Warsaw. The topics discussed range from the...

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Managing the Boom and Bust: Supporting Climate Resilient Livelihoods in the...

For decades the Sahel has been presented as suffering from irreversible degradation, leading to desert advancement and the impoverishment of the population. This issue paper develops an alternative...

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Integrating the Environment in Urban Planning & Management

Cities can use a range of principles and approaches to integrate the environment in urban planning and management.This report is intended to encourage and support urban decision-makers in this process....

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Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment in Asia and the Pacific

This publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major environmental, economic and social changes in Asia and the Pacific since 1992. The numbers tell the story of how, in twenty...

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UNFCCC Publishes Report of the Subsidiary Bodies’ 39th Sessions

The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the reports of the 39th session of the UNFCCC subsidiary bodies held in Warsaw, Poland, summarizing the discussions held and conclusions reached during the session....

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Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to...

IPCC: This Summary for Policymakers presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The SREX approaches...

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The Himalayas, A Special Report

With one-fifth of the world’s population relying on seasonal Himalayan melting, the disappearance of the Third Pole is sending warning signs. Floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms, water...

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UNEP Six Priority Areas Factsheets – Ecosystem management

Factsheets in this series: Climate change, Resource efficiency, Disasters and conflicts, Environmental governance, Harmful substances and hazardous waste, Ecosystem management       Source>>

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New study on Climate Clubs

Oscar Widerberg, IVM Vrije Universitet Amsterdam and Daniel Engström Stenson, Swedish think tank Fores, yesterday launched a new study on Climate Clubs and its relation to the UNFCCC. A short summary...

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Climate Change And Deforestation: The Evolution of An Intersecting Policy Domain

Announcing the publication of a Special Issue of Environmental Science and Policy (Volume 35, January 2014) titled: Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain.The...

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Toolkit For Urban Government To Climate Resilience Building

ICLEI-ACCCRN Guide and Toolkit to help municipal governments in Asia build resilience to climate change. ICLEI has finalized a new guide and toolkit aimed at helping municipal governments in Asia build...

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Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook

FAO: There has been a rapid uptake of the term Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) by the international community, national entities and local institutions, in the past years. However, implementing this...

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Mainstreaming Climate Change in Bhutan and Nepal: A Synthesis Report

This report is a synthesis of two studies that sought to understand the policy contexts for addressing climate change adaptation and key conservation issues in Nepal and Bhutan, which have many...

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Kedarnath Disaster: Facts And Plausible Causes

Current Science: Recent climate changes have had significant impact on high-mountain glacial environment. Rapid melting of snow/ice and heavy rainfall has resulted in the formation and expansion of...

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Earth Is Warming Up But Not As Rapidly As Predicted

The Hindu: New IPCC report raises questions over urgency or seriousness of climate change The climate has not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier, the latest report of the...

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UNEP Report: On Low Carbon Transport and City Planning

Three reports released by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) evaluate and summarize options for low carbon city planning, non-motorised transport (NMT) and infrastructure risks due to climate...

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The IPCC Report – Where Now?

CNN: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has now published the first part of its Fifth Assessment Report, AR5. It says humanity is largely responsible for the recent warming of the Earth, it...

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Drawing Down N2O to Protect Climate & the Ozone Layer: a UNEP Synthesis Report

This report addresses the benefits of drawing down nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. N2O is now the most significant ozone-depleting substance emission and the third most important greenhouse gas released...

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The Local Environmental, Economic and Social Tragedies of International...

This study reviewed the policies and outcomes of international support for forest management in Nepal and answered whether international support on forest management in developing countries resulted in...

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Thinking about Water Differently: Managing the Water-Food-Energy Nexus

The water-food-energy nexus is emerging as a critical issue in Asia and the Pacific. It is clear that solutions must be found to assure water security, thereby eliminating the immediate–and...

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Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable Supply

UNEP Publications: This report explores how the management of land-based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the...

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Climate Adaptation: Seizing the Challenge

The World Economic Forum released their report Climate Adaptation: Seizing the Challenge, at Davos last week.  The report was co-authored by the Global Adaptation Institute (now Notre Dame Global...

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Country-to-country Review Under Next Climate Treaty

In December 2011 countries agreed – through the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) – to negotiate a new treaty by 2015. Many proposals for this agreement include a...

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Energy, Development and Climate Change: Striking a Balance

The paper, “Energy, Development and Climate Change: Striking a Balance”, examines the energy scenario – availability, access, influence of markets and government policies – in rural India, especially...

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Integrating Climate Change in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

At the Rio+20 conference, member states of the United Nations (UN) expressed concern about the scale and gravity of the impacts of climate change. These impacts affect all countries and undermine their...

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Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy

This report advocates placing REDD+ into a larger landscape scale planning framework that can, and should, involve multiple sectors (especially those that are driving deforestation, sometimes...

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Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability

IPCC Working Group II Contribution to AR5 The Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report considers the vulnerability and exposure of human and natural systems, the observed impacts...

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Our Planet: Greening Business

The United Nations Environment Programme’s flagship magazine.

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Monitoring & Evaluation for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: A...

The second edition of this report comes at a critical moment. Climate change threatens to reverse progress towards sustainable development and threatens lives and livelihoods around the globe, either...

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Global Warming vs Climate Change

In January 2014, we conducted a nationally representative experimental study and found that the terms global warming and climate change often mean different things to Americans. The two terms activate...

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UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service: May 2014

The deep ocean, the largest biome on Earth at over 1 000 metres below the surface of the ocean, holds vast quantities of untapped energy resources, precious metals and minerals. Advancements in...

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Climate Change and India. Analysis of Political Economy and Impact

The ‘Climate Change and India: Analysis of Political Economy and Impact’ is primarily beneficial for those who want to approach this issue from a people’s perspective. Th e book attempts to bring...

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Our Planet: The First United Nations Environment Assembly

The first ever United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is the core theme of this issue of Our Planet. Sustainable Development Goals, the need to decouple economic growth from natural resource...

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South-South Trade in Renewable Energy: a Trade Flow Analysis of Selected...

This study analyses trends and opportunities for trade among developing countries (i.e. South-South trade) in selected environmental goods, in order to assess the contribution such trade can make to a...

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Valuing Plastic: the Business Case for Measuring, Managing and Disclosing...

The objective of this report is to help companies manage the opportunities and risks associated with plastic use. It articulates the business case for companies to improve their measurement, disclosure...

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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

The new Millennium Development Goals Report 2014 examines the latest progress made towards achieving the MDGs. It shows that millions of people’s lives have improved due to concerted global, regional,...

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UNEP Year Book 2014: Emerging Issues in Our Global Environment

Ten years after the first Year Book in this series appeared, a special e-book anniversary edition – UNEP Year Book 2014 – presents a fresh look at ten issues highlighted over the past decade. This UNEP...

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High Mountain Glaciers and Climate Change: Challenges to Human Livelihoods...

Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. This report calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modeling of glaciers, snow and their role in water...

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Keeping track of adaptation actions in africa: Targeted Fiscal Stimulus...

With the African population expected to increase to 2 billion by 2050, and nearly 65% of African livelihoods directly linked to agriculture-dominated landscapes, it is critical to provide targeted...

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Forests in a Changing Climate: A Sourcebook for Integrating REDD+ into...

‘Forests in a Changing Climate: Sourcebook for REDD+’ is designed to give an overview of the key topics related to forests and climate change, under the overarching and evolving REDD+ narrative. The...

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Global Environment Outlook: Small Island Developing States

GEO SIDS Outlook is a contribution to the 2014 Third International UN Conference on Small Island Developing States, which has an overarching theme of the sustainable development of Small Island...

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WORKING PAPER: The Sustainable Development Goals – Will They Deliver Climate...

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges the world faces today. It affects all aspects of the development agenda, from poverty eradication to health care, to economic growth and disaster...

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Climate Finance for Cities and Buildings: a Handbook for Local Governments

The objectives of this Handbook are to help raise awareness among local stakeholders regarding climate finance and its potential in the built environment, given the important role that this sector has...

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Global Biodiversity Outlook

Global Biodiversity Outlook: a mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020: This report brings together multiple lines of evidence...

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Our Planet: Climate for Life

The interaction between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas are the focus of this issue of Our Planet. Protected areas are important carbon storage facilities, so their maintenance and...

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Our Planet: Climate for Life

The interaction between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas are the focus of this issue of Our Planet. Protected areas are important carbon storage facilities, so their maintenance and...

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The Emissions Gap Report 2014

Over the past four years the “emissions gap” series published by the United Nations Environment Program has analysed the size of the gap and has provided insights on options to close it. This fifth...

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The Emissions Gap Report 2014: a UNEP Synthesis Report

Over the past four years the “emissions gap” series published by the United Nations Environment Programme has analysed the size of the gap and has provided insights on options to close it. This fifth...

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Measuring Success: Indicators For the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

This report collates information on ecosystem-based indicators and indices currently being measure by regional entities and seeks to identify common elements. From this analysis the report postulates...

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