Browsing Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "Bahamas"
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25 Years of Crisis Response
(2022-03)UNEP is working around the world to respond to natural disasters, industrial accidents, and human-induced crises. Since 1994, UNEP, through its Disasters and Conflicts Branch, has supported more than 50 crisis-affected ... -
An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in the Caribbean
(United Nations (UN) - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2013)The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana, ... -
Caribbean Environment Outlook
(, 1999)The Caribbean Environment Outlook (CEO) is part of a UNEP project to produce state of the environment assessments for the countries of the Caribbean, Western Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands. The objective of the CEO is ... -
Caribbean Environment Outlook
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2004)Over the last three decades, environmental degradation and the unsustainable use of natural resources have reduced the availability of ecosystem goods and services, with negative consequences for sustainable social and ... -
Climatic Change in the Intra-Americas Sea: Implications of Future Climate on the Ecosystems and Socio-economic Structure in the Marine and Coastal Regions of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas and the Northeast Coast of South America
(Edward Arnold, 1993)This book provides the first expert and comprehensive account of the implications that global warming and sea-level rise will have on the ecosystems and socio- economic structure in the marine and coastal regions of the ... -
Efficient and Climate Friendly Cooling - [Factsheet]
(2018)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)'s United for Efficiency and District Energy in Cities initiatives are accelerating the global transition to energy-efficient and climate-friendly cooling. Getting the right ... -
Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)In 2013, UNEP identified priority emerging environmental issues that are of concern to small island developing states (SIDS). This report provides an overview of 20 issues critical to the sustainable development of SIDS. ... -
Global Environment Outlook: Small Island Developing States : Outlook - GEO SIDS
(2014)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 Developing States through ... -
Integrated Watershed and Coastal Areas Management (IWCAM) Atlas
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)The Global Environment Facility (GEF), 2012)In the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), high population densities, combined with population growth, urbanization and increased development, particularly residential and tourist resort development, has led ... -
Island Biodiversity – Island Bright Spots in Conservation & Sustainability
(Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2014)Islands are taking action to effectively conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable livelihoods. Despite significant vulnerabilities facing islands, leaders of island countries and countries with islands have made ... -
Marine Environmental Centres: Caribbean
(1985)This publication is a contribution to the UNEP sponsored regional Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme adopted at the intergovernmental meeting convened by UNEP in Montego Bay. Jamaica, 6-8 April 1981***. ... -
Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter Management (RAPMali) for the Wider Caribbean Region 2014 - CEP Technical Report: 72
(2014)This document provides an update to the 2008 “Marine Litter in the Wider Caribbean: A Regional Overview & Action Plan” (RAPMaLi). The primary action categories addressed in this document include: a) Legislation, Policies ... -
Regional Management Plan for the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus Manatus) - CEP Technical Report No. 51
(2010)The primary objectives of this document are to (a) present an overview of the status of scientific knowledge, legislation, and conservation efforts in each country where West Indian manatees are found throughout the ... -
SIDS in numbers
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Small Island Developing States in numbers
(Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), 2013)SIDS In Numbers provides, at a glance, a snapshot of some select key SIDS indicators grouped under the three dimensions of sustainable development -
Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2012
(Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, 2014)This report is the most detailed and comprehensive study of its kind published to date – the result of the work of 90 experts over the course of three years. It contains the analysis of more than 35,000 surveys conducted ...
