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Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ can Support a Green Economy: Summary for Policy Makers
(UNEP, 2014)
This summary report highlights key findings from the report of the international resource panel: building natural capital: How REDD+ can support a Green Economy. It should be read in conjunction with the full report.
Guiding Principles for Delivering Coastal Wetland Carbon Projects
(2014)
This guidance document distills best practice principles for coastal wetland carbon projects, drawing on a long history of project development and implementation in fields of wetlands restoration, terrestrial carbon projects, ...
Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy
(2014)
This report advocates placing REDD+ into a larger planning framework that should involve multiple influences (especially those driving deforestation, albeit sometimes inadvertently). This framework would go beyond forests ...
Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable Supply - Summary for Policymakers
(2014)
This report was produced by the Land and Soils Working Group of the International Resource Panel. It explores how the management of land-based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of ...
Frozen heat: a global outlook on methane gas hydrates - Volume 2
(UNEP, 2014)
In 2010, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) commissioned the Global Outlook on Gas Hydrates as part of its mandate to examine the environmental aspect of key emerging issues and provide accurate and objective ...
Protected Planet Report 2014: Tracking progress towards global targets for protected areas
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2014)
The Protected Planet Report 2014 follows the recommendation of the Protected Planet Report 2012 to provide a more complete overview of each of these elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. Chapters summarise current ...
UNEP Year Book 2014: Emerging issues in our global environment
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)
Ten years after the first Year Book in this series appeared, a special e-book anniversary edition – UNEP Year Book 2014 – presents a fresh look at ten issues highlighted over the past decade. This UNEP Year Book 2014 takes ...
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Dar es Salaam
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)
This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the ...
The Emissions Gap Report 2014: A UNEP Synthesis Report
(2014)
Over the past four years the “emissions gap” series published by the United Nations Environment Programme has analysed the size of the gap and has provided insights on options to close it. This fifth report provides an ...
Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable Supply
(2014)
This report explores how the management of land-based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the ...