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Regions: a solution to climate change
(UNEP, 2010)
The next 10 years will be critical for the future of our planet. Radical measures must be taken before we are locked into potentially irreversible, catastrophic climate transformations, whose impacts are expected to ...
Portfolio carbon: measuring, disclosing and managing the carbon intensity of investments and investment portfolios
(UNEP, 2013)
This publication provides a clear and compelling case for why and how investors and their service providers should start measuring, disclosing and reducing the GHG emissions associated with their investments and investment ...
Urban water vulnerability to climate change in Mongolia
(Water Authority, Mongolia, 2011)
This study aims to present the impacts of climate change upon urban water particularly upon the performance of the urban water supply, wastewater and storm water infrastructure, through compiling existing studies on climate ...
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 ...
Climate finance for cities and buildings: a handbook for local governments
(UNEP, 2014)
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 to play in climate ...
High mountain glaciers and climate change: challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation
(UNEP, 2010)
Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. Although glacier systems show a great amount of inherent complexity and variation, there are clear overall trends indicating global ...
Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: An Analysis of Economic Values at Risk
(United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2014)
This report presents preliminary values-at-risk (VAR) estimates for key resources expected to be impacted by climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). These include rural and urban infrastructure, worker productivity, ...
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
Women at the frontline of climate change: gender risks and hopes
(UNEP, 2011)
Women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing increasingly frequent droughts and floods which are having economic but also profound social consequences. The ...
An Assessment of assessments: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Air, climate change, biodiversity and wastes
(2013)
This report summarizes national assessments of the state of play in the environmental reporting, application of indicators and statistics on biodiversity, air, climate change and waste in the selected EECCA countries.