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Climate change challenges for Africa: evidence from selected EU-funded research projects
(UNEP, 2012)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 Change Finance under theConventionA global perspective
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Climate change impacts on the marine and coastal environment marine and coastal environment
Presentation at the 10th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans -
Climate Change Risks to the Insurance Sector: A2ii – IAIS Consultation Call Report
(2018)This call took a closer look at the IAIS and Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF) “Issues Paper on Climate Change Risks to the Insurance Sector." An overview of the impacts of climate change on the insurance sector including ... -
Climate change threats and vulnerabilities in Afghanistan
(2015)This infographic summarizes climate change threats and vulnerabilities in Afghanistan. The poster briefly explains the effect of climate change on different eco-zones and sectors such as health and infrastructure. -
Climate Change, Clean Technology and Green Growth Opportunities in Africa - Note by the Secretariat
(2010)Climate change, as the United Nations Secretary-General has said, is “the defining challenge of our generation”. Its potential consequences for economic and social well-being are so profound that many have preferred to ... -
Climate Change, Inclusive Development and Quantum Neural Networks
(2019)Developing and implementing the solutions on Accessibility and Inclusive Development would build upon the theories and ideologies of Quantum Computing and Neural Networks [a branch of Artificial Intelligence computation ... -
Climate Change: Science, Impacts and Policy - Proceedings of the Second World Climate Conference
(1990)The primary goals of the Conference were: To formulate recommendations for the continuing World Climate Programme, taking into account the report of the IPCC, with a primary goal of insuring that authoritative scientific ... -
Climate Finance Law: Legal Readiness for Climate Finance - Report and Findings of Workshop held at King’s College London 9-11 March 2018
(2018)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
Climate for Life - Our Planet November 2014
(UNEP, 2014)The interaction between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas are the focus of this issue of Our Planet. Protected areas are important carbon storage facilities, so their maintenance and expansion is a key ... -
Climate Policy Needs to Ensuring Sustainable, Equitable Food and Agriculture Systems and Protect and Restore Forests and Biodiversity
(2019)Green welcomes this opportunity to submit input to the Nature-Based Solutions coalition for the UN Secretary General’s UN Climate Action Summit. We welcome the Secretary General’s commitment to explore concrete and bold ... -
Climate Solution: Healthy Forests and Resilient Communities in the Congo
(2019)Fern is working with Centre pour l’Environnement et de Développement (CED) in Cameroon, Centre pour l’Information Environnementale et le Développement Durable (CIEDD) in Central African Republic and Observatoire Congolais ... -
Climate Solution: Perverse Incentives for Agri-business and Deforestation - A Love Affair that Must End
(2019)This action focuses on ending perverse incentives provided to agri-business in the EU and Mercosur countries. Direct and indirect incentives and subsidies in areas with the highest deforestation rates, such as the Paraguayan ... -
Climate Solution: Protecting Primary Forests is Essential for a Safe Climate
(2019)Protecting Primary Forests is Essential for a Safe Climate (Wild Heritage, CLARA) -
Climate Solution: Rewilding Europe to Invigorate Local Economies
(2019)Collective purchase by local residents of an 8400-hectare estate where 800 hectares of woodland has now been restored. Previously, this area was used for sheep grazing, and as shooting areas, and although this use of the ... -
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Co-chair's Non-paper - Draft Elements of Recommendations to the Seventy-third Session of the General Assembly - [Transmittal Letter by María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the General Assembly]
(25/04/2019)https://www.unenvironment.org/events/conference/towards-global-pact-environment -
[Co-chairs Summary of the Second Substantive Session of the Ad hoc Open-ended Working Group established under General Assembly resolution 72/277 of 10 May 2018 and Provisional Agenda for the Third Substantive Session - Transmittal Note of the President of the General Assembly]
(27/03/2019)https://www.unenvironment.org/events/conference/towards-global-pact-environment