Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Topic "Climate Action"
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1991 UNEP Flexible and Rigid Foams Technical Options Report: Pursuant to Article (6)of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer under the Auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme - Final
(1991)This report details the available technical options that can be implemented by each foam market segment to completely eliminate CFC usage known as of 1991. Updates on the progress of each market segment in reducing CFC ... -
2018 Global Status Report: Towards a Zero-emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2018)This Global Status Report documents the status and trends of key indicators for energy use, emissions, technologies, policies, and investments to track the buildings and construction sector, globally and ... -
2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2022-11)Decarbonizing the buildings sector by 2050 is critical to delivering these emission cuts – and to addressing the wider triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. ... -
25 Clean Air Measures for Asia and the Pacific
(2019)Air pollution is not only a major health risk, it also has damaging impacts on the environment and agricultural crop yields. These impacts have significant economic consequences. While existing policies have made progress ... -
Accessing the Canopy : Assessment of Biological Diversity and Microclimate of the Tropical Forest Canopy: Phase I
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1995)UNEP's project Assessment of Biological Diversity and Microclimate of the Tropical Forest Canopy is a new venture to examine forest canopies by means of a tower crane. Accessing the Canopy is the first major report of the ... -
Action Plan Booklet - UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
(2023-05)This action plan is a living document by the UN Decade partner network to collectively work towards the goals and vision of this UN Decade. Moving from strategy to action, this plan allows all existing and new partners to ... -
Action Plan for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in Mauritius
(2019)The Action Plan for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in Mauritius sets out a roadmap to a sustainable and resilient tourism accommodation sector in Mauritius. It will enable accommodation providers, their ... -
The Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme: Evaluation of Its Development and Achievements (1976-1987) - CEP Technical Report 01
(1989)The present document constitutes an in-depth evaluation of the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme. It covers the preparatory activities initiated in 1976 leading to its adoption in April 1981, and its ... -
Action Plan for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, 2021-2030 - Version August 2022
(2022-08)This action plan sets out the next steps to collectively work towards the goals and vision of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Moving from strategy to action, this plan aims to mobilise all stakeholders around key ... -
Action Plan to Promote Responsible Aquaculture Standards in Vietnam
(2016)The application of internationally recognized sustainability standards in Vietnam's aquaculture sector is increasingly necessary, not only to promote economic efficiency and sustainability but also to enhance the green ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2020 - Online Annex
(2021-01)This document includes: Annex 1. Challenges in estimating adaptation costs; and Annex 2. Challenges in estimating adaptation finance -
Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow - Climate Adaptation Failure Puts World at Risk
(2022-11)Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity, The international community must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a transformation of energy, industry, transport, food systems, financial systems ... -
Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change - A Caring for Climate Report
(2011)This report is a resource for companies with a national, regional or global reach that are interested in increasing their strategic focus on adaptation in developing countries where they have operations, supply chains, ... -
Advancing Kigali Goals through HVACR - Industria Formazione International Special Issue 2022-23
(Centro Studi Galileo and Renewable Energy Institute, 2022-11)The eighth edition of the International Special Issue, Advancing Kigali Goals through HVACR produced by Centro Studi Galileo is a compilation of invaluable articles from leading global associations and experts, including ... -
Advancing Sustainable Development Goal 14: Sustainable Fish, Seafood Value Chains, Trade and Climate
(2019)This background note reviews current trends and projections of fish and seafood trade, and recent work undertaken to support implementation of the trade related activities of SDG 14, with a focus on the work of UNCTAD, FAO ... -
Afghanistan Vulnerability and Adaptation Technical Assessment Report
(2020-11)Afghanistan is one of the least developed and most vulnerable countries to climate change. The high dependence of its population on agricultural livelihoods, fragile environment, poor socio economic development, high ... -
Afghanistan: Climate Change Science Perspectives
(2016)Afghanistan’s variety of different climates has a large natural variability; however, over recent decades people are beginning to perceive climatological changes. There are very few scientific studies on climate change in ... -
Afghanistan’s National Inventory Report (NIR) 2019: Submission Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
(2019)The National Inventory Report (NIR) 2019 contains complete information and provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the trend and the methodologies applied in the greenhouse gas inventory for the gases carbon ... -
Africa's Blue Economy: A Policy Handbook
(2016)In line with the decisions of the 19th ICE, the main aim of this handbook is to provide a step-by-step guide on how to mainstream the Blue Economy into continental, subregional, and national policies, plans, laws, regulations, ... -
African Green Stimulus Programme - Draft 08 January 2021
(2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated economic, societal and environmental challenges globally and especially in Africa. The ripple effects of the largescale worldwide disruption brought about by the Pandemic ...
