Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "early warning system"
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Africa Regional Workshop on Environmental Disasters: Workshop Report
(2003-07)The Africa Regional Workshop On Environmental Disasters, held from 28 to 30 July 2003 at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi, provided a forum for interactive dialogue between experts on the ... -
Angola: Ecosystem-based Adaptation 2016-2020
(2020)This UNEP project is seeking to help climate-vulnerable coastal communities by using ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) – a type of ‘nature-based solution’ that uses ecosystem services to reduce the negative impacts of climate ... -
Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape: Current Progress on Three Key Capacities for Climate Resilience
(2017-05)The briefing paper then discusses the challenges – both conceptual and data-related – that this type of assessment faces and suggests ways of overcoming them. While gaining a better understanding of progress under the ... -
Bamyan: Building community based resilience to climate change and natural disasters
(2015-06)This Fact Sheet summarizes the pilot field demonstrations Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency (NEP) and UNEP are conducting in Bamyan province. The work aims to build community-based resilience and ... -
Big Data Services: Data and Analytics, Early Warning and Science Foresight for Action - Transforming the Lives of People, Places and Planet
(2022-07)The Big Data Initiative builds Environmental Strategic Foresight and insights for policy through analysis of data, mapping trends, creating scenarios and identifying emerging issues on a permanent basis, at the frontier ... -
Building Climate Resilience in Lesotho with Early Warning Systems - UNEP Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation
(2022-07)In 2011, the Government of Lesotho secured funding from the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Country Fund to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities. A central approach of the ... -
Climate Change Challenges for Africa: Evidence from Selected EU-funded Research Projects
(UNEP, 2012-04)Africa, while currently responsible for a negligible amount of total global greenhouse gas emissions, is under significant threat from climate change. Changes in precipitation levels, likely increase in temperature extremes ... -
Climate Early Warning and Capacity Building
(2024-02)The Climate Early Warning and Capacity Building Unit focuses on strengthening country capacities for the collection, management, and use of climate and environmental data, information, and knowledge for data-driven climate ... -
Convention for Co-operation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region: Protocol concerning Co-operation in Combating Pollution in Cases of Emergency [Abidjan Convention]
(1981)In accordance with resolution 2997 (XXVII) of the United Nations General Assembly, UNEP was established "as a focal point for environmental action and co-ordination within the United Nations system". The Governing Council ... -
Current State of Early Warning System in Afghanistan - An Outlook of the Flood Early Warning System
(2020-11)This report provides a broad overview of the landscape of Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the climate-induced natural hazard with a specific focus on flood in Afghanistan, in order to identify past achievements and current ... -
Daikundi: Building adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change
(2015-06)This Fact Sheet summarizes the pilot field demonstrations Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency (NEP) and UNEP are conducting in Daikundi. The work aims to build environmental adaptation and resilience of ... -
Desert Locusts’ Upsurges: A Harbinger of Emerging Climate Change Induced Crises? - Foresight Brief No. 022 January 2021
(2021)The economic importance of locusts is evident from their impacts on livelihoods, food security and nutrition, economic development and on the environment. This foresight brief discusses some of these issues and highlights ... -
Early Warning and Data Analytics Strategy for Humanity: 2030 and Beyond
(2024-06)Early Warning is a powerful tool for leveraging Humanity´s ability to think about and build the future. It provides a way to think about possible, alternative, and desired futures and scenarios. By doing so, it enables ... -
Early Warning and Data Analytics: Strategy, Policy and Action for People, Places and Planet
(2024-02)Early Warning is a powerful tool for leveraging Humanity´s ability to think about and build the future. It provides a way to think about possible, alternative, and desired futures and scenarios. By doing so, it enables ... -
Early Warning and Data Analytics: Strategy, Policy and Action for People, Places and Planet - Executive Brief February 2025
(2025-02)Early warning systems (EWS) are an adaptive measure for climate change, using integrated monitoring, forecasting and communication systems to help communities prepare for and manage hazardous climate-related events. ... -
Early warning as a human right: building resilience to climate-related hazards
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)Early warning systems (EWS) can improve resilience of households to climate related hazards, by providing information for early action. However, to be effective, early warning systems must themselves incorporate aspects ... -
Early Warning as a Human Right: Building resilience to climate-related hazards - Executive Summary
(2015)Early warning systems (EWS) can improve resilience of households to climate related hazards, by providing information for early action. However, to be effective, early warning systems must themselves incorporate aspects ... -
Early Warning for All.
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Early Warning for Environment (EWE) Workshop - Co-creating a Strategy for One UN Common Approach to EWE
(2023-11)This Early Warning for Environment Workshop was organized by UNEP and held in the International Environment House, Geneva, Switzerland (Hybrid), from 20 to 21 November 2023. It was attended by 11 other UN Agencies and 6 ... -
Early Warning for Environment - Saving Lives, Protecting Property, Loss and Damage. For People Places and Planet
(2024-02)Early warning system is an adaptive measure for climate change, using integrated communication systems to help communities prepare for hazardous climate-related events. A successful EWS saves lives and jobs, land and ...
