Browsing Knowledge Repository by Topic "Disasters and Conflicts"
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Addressing Climate-related Security Risks: Conflict Sensitivity for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods - Guidance Note
(2022-07)This guidance note supports the development of strategies, policies, and projects that seek to increase resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and sustainable livelihoods. (->) A brief INTRODUCTION ... -
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Disarmament, environment and sustainable development: A Time for Action
(1986)The origins of the present arms race are many and complex. To a large extent they can be found in the political and socio-economic differences between the countries from the two groups of States which later came to form ... -
Disaster/Conflict Affected States and Vulnerable Humanitarian Operations - COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheet 8
(2020)Disaster and conflict affected countries and vulnerable humanitarian operations with limited capacity, poor infrastructure and resources are likely to face enormous problems in the event of COVID-19 spread and the need for ... -
The El Nino Phenomenon - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 8
(1992)Places as far apart as Australia and North America, Peru and India are affected by recurrent climatic anomalies known as El Niño. Originating in the Pacific region, El Niño effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ... -
Environment and Security: Transforming Risks into Cooperation: The Case of the Eastern Caspian Region
(2008)In the past, the notion of security was pri- marily conceived in terms of neutralizing military threats to the territorial integrity and political independence of a state. However, in recent decades, it has been considerably ... -
Environment, Climate Change and Security - Foresight Brief No. 012 March 2019
(2019-03)Climate change is happening, and it is a threat to human security. The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions, and an increase in the ... -
EU-UNEP Climate Change and Security Project: Building Resilience to Climate-related Security Risks in North Darfur, Sudan
(2022-07)In 2018, the EU-UNEP partnership on Climate Change and Security established a pilot project in the Wadi El Ku catchment area of North Darfur State, Sudan. Seeking to address the underlying drivers of conflict in the region, ... -
For People and Planet: The United Nations Environment Programme strategy for tackling climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste from 2022—2025
(2021)In its decision 4/1, the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) requested the Executive Director of UNEP to submit for consideration and approval by the Environment Assembly ... -
Global Environment Outlook: For Life on Earth
(Oxford University Press, 1997)This volume-GE0-1- is the first product of the GEO Project. It provides a snapshot of a process in the making and aims to move the process along by documenting its progress. The principal focus of GE0-1 is a review of ... -
Goodlife Goals [Pack of Actions]
(2018)The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint for a better future. And together we can reach them. By following the Good Life Goals we can all help make tomorrow better than today. Let’s do this! -
Integrated Water Resources Management: Good Practices in Sudan - Adapt for Environment and Climate Resilience in Sudan (ADAPT!)
(2020)This document is designed to collate information around Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) good practices and Sudanese case studies. It will form a baseline that can be used to inform project design and advocate ... -
Key Messages - Making Peace With Nature: A Scientific Blueprint to Tackle the Climate, Biodiversity and Pollution Emergencies
(2021)• Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution add up to three self-inflicted planetary crises that are closely interconnected and put the well-being of current and future generations at unacceptable risk. • Ambitious ... -
Once Burned, Twice Shy? Lessons Learned from the 1997-98 El Niño
(2001)This assessment reviewed forecasts and impacts of the 1997-98 El Niño, as well as the climate-related early warning and natural disaster preparedness systems in the following locations in order to improve their ENSO (El ... -
Preparing for Drought: A Guidebook for Developing Countries
(1992)The purpose of this guidebook is to describe those unique characteristics of drought that set it apart from other natural hazards (Chapter 1). The guidebook also describes the nature of impacts associated with drought. ... -
Programme Performance Report 2016-2017 - United Nations Environment Programme
(2018)During 2016 and 2017, the UN Environment Programme implemented a Programme of Work that represents the second half of the organization’s Medium-Term Strategy for the period 2014-2017. In doing so, we partnered with ... -
Programme Performance Report 2018
(2019)In 2018, the Programme of Work 2018–2019 began, as part of the United Nations Environment Programme four-year Medium-Term Strategy for 2018–2021. The strategy provides a stepping stone towards a vision for 2030, which is ... -
Proposed Programme of Work and Budget for the Biennium 2020‒2021 - Report of the Executive Director
(2019)The present report sets out the proposed programme of work and budget for the biennium 2020–2021, reflecting the outcome of consultations with the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment ...
