Browsing Factsheets, Infographics and Brochures by Subject "CLIMATE CHANGE"
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The Afghanistan Resilience Consortium (ARC)
(2015-09)This fact sheet highlights the key partners and components of Afghanistan Resilience Consortium’s four-year project “Strengthening the Resilience of Afghanistan’s Vulnerable Communities against Natural Disasters” (2015-2019). -
Afghanistan: Building Environmental Resilience and Sustainability in Afghanistan: 2002-2022
(2022-08)Decades of conflict coupled with recurrent extreme weather events have had devastating impacts on the people of Afghanistan as well as the natural environment. Starting with a Post Conflict Environmental Assessment in 2001, ... -
Appendices: Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record - Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again)
(2023-11)Supplementary material to Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record - Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) -
Bangladesh: Ecosystem-based Adaptation 2020-2024 - Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Adaptation in the Drought-Prone Barind Tract and Haor Wetland Area
(2022-05)The dryland forests of the Barind Tract and the wetlands of the Haor Area of Bangladesh provide a range of valuable ecosystem services to local communities that derive most of their income from agriculture and fishing. ... -
Benin: Ecosystem-based Adaptation 2019-2024
(2023-03)Benin is a West African country with a rapidly growing population of over 12 million people, the vast majority of whom live in rural areas. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking 150th out of 175 countries ... -
Building Better Cities: ASEAN Looks to the Future
(2018)The rapid growth of urbanization signals a significant demographic shift that will change the way people live and the way our human settlements function. New infrastructure and systems are needed to support the growing ... -
Building Climate Resilience in Lesotho with Early Warning Systems - UNEP Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation
(2022-07)In 2011, the Government of Lesotho secured funding from the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Country Fund to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities. A central approach of the ... -
Cambodia: Ecosystem-based Adaptation 2013-2019 - Enhancing Climate Change Resilience of Rural Communities Living in Protected Areas of Cambodia
(2019)UN Environment is helping the Government of Cambodia to build climate adaptation near 5 community protected forests across the country. These areas are extremely vulnerable to climate change due to increasingly erratic ... -
Children's Rights and the Environment: Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur
(2018)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
CityAdapt: Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar [Factsheet]
(2021)The factsheet gives an overview of an Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) project which is implemented by UNEP, Building Climate Resilience of Urban Systems through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) In the Asia-Pacific Region ... -
Climate Change Mitigation - Factsheet
(2017)The world knows all too well the threat that climate change poses to human health, economies and the environment. United action is needed to hit the 1.5°C temperature rise target. Together, UN Environment and the GEF are ... -
Climate Stability Presentation
(2023-10)Government and nongovernment development actions are compatible with the long-term mitigation and resilience goals of the Paris Agreement. -
Cooling and Climate Change
(2021)Cooling is an important component of modern life and economies. Refrigeration prolongs the shelf life, safety and quality of everything from food to vaccines, while air-conditioning makes for comfortable homes, schools and ... -
Cross-cutting Capacity Development
(2017)Despite population growth, increased urbanization, and accelerating climate change, we can reverse the damage that human activity has caused to our environment. With funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UN ... -
Cultural and Local Climate Perspectives in Colombia
(2019)In Colombia, the local population has developed, since ancient times, knowledge systems on nature and its interaction with nature. Climate and natural phenomena like the rainbow, different classes of precipitation, atmospheric ... -
Djibouti: Ecosystem-based Adaptation 2010-2016
(2019)Djibouti is a small arid country where the availability of water is a key development constraint that inflicts crops and livestock. 85% of the 890,000 Djiboutians live in urban coastal areas, but these regions are showing ... -
Djibouti: Ecosystem-based Adaptation 2014-2021 [Factsheet]
(2021)Djibouti is a small country on the Horn of Africa with a population of around 950,000. This project is increasing the resilience of the Djiboutian society and economy to the impacts of climate change, such as droughts, ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation and an Integrated Resilient Rice Model in Madagascar - UNEP Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation
(2022-07)In Madagascar, deforestation for agricultural land is leading to widespread erosion from run-off, resulting in the loss of topsoil, depletion of soil nutrients, and landslides. The project therefore also applied an ...