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ADAPT cost project: analysis of the economic costs of climate change adaptation in Africa
(UNEP, 2010)
This monograph summarises the findings from the Adapt Cost project, which support the statement from the Tunis Roundtable. The project investigated and built evidence of the costs of adaptation, producing a range of estimates ...
Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC): Annual report 2015
(2015)
This report demonstrates and details CAREC’s national and regional programmatic and institutional ef-forts implemented as per the organization’s mandate. Intellectual, technical and institutional outcomes and achievements ...
Atlas of Rwanda's Changing Environment - Implications for Climate Change Resilience
(Rwanda Environment Management Authority, 2011)
The Atlas of Rwanda's Changing Environment is a visual account of Rwanda's state of natural resources revealed through maps, current and historical satellite images, aerial and ground photographs as well as narrative based ...
A practical framework for planning pro-development climate policy
(UNEP, 2012)
MCA4climate is a major new UNEP initiative providing practical assistance to governments in preparing their climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies. It aims to help governments, particularly in ...
Ecosystem based approaches for climate change adaptation in Caribbean SIDS
(Universit de GenveCentre for Tropical Marine Ecologie (ZMT), Bremen, 2013)
Existing climate variability and global climate change are major threat stosustainable development in the Caribbean, particularly for the Small Island Developing States(SIDS). Hurricanes, storms urges and extreme rainfall ...
Nauru - National Report for Third International Conference
(Government of Nauru, 2013)
This report serves as a national input for Nauru for the 2014 SIDS Conference, the Pacific regional preparatory meeting and the Interregional preparatory meeting. The assessment includes a review of progress and gaps in ...
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. ...
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 ...
Black Carbon Mitigation and the Role of the Global Environment Facility: A STAP Advisory Document
(Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), 2015)
Black carbon (BC) is formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass. It is the most strongly light-absorbing component of fine particulate matter, and a local and regional air pollutant. It is also a ...
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 ...