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Loss and Damage: When Adaptation is not Enough - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) April 2014
(2014-04)
The negative consequences of climate change are an increasingly prominent discussion point in global climate change negotiations. This topic has recently risen to global
attention with the establishment of the “Warsaw ...
UN Environment Africa Office Newsletter; May-June 2017
(2017-06-01)
UN Environment Africa Office Newsletter May-June 2017
Amazonian Deforestation Slowing but May Already be at a Tipping Point Mato Grosso, Brazil - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) 2011
(2011)
At the beginning of the 20th century, roughly 80 percent of the 5 million km2 "Legal Amazon" region of Brazil was forested (Kirby and others 2006). Highways built in the 1950s and 1960s, along with government incentives ...
The Need for Numbers--Goals, Targets and Indicators for the Environment - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) March 2012
(2012-03)
In the run-up to the June 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20), it has become increasingly clear that we need to put "sustainable development" into practice by setting time ...
Environmental dimensions of resilient and peaceful societies : UNEP Post 2015 Note 5
(2014)
At least 40 per cent of all violent conflicts in the last 60 years have been linked to natural resources. Climate change and increasing natural disasters are expected to increase the risk of such conflicts by degrading the ...
The Rush for Land and Its Potential Environmental Consequence - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) July 2011
(2011-07)
To feed a global population of 9.3 billion by 2050 (2.4 billion more than today, UNPD 2011) FAO estimates that global food demand will increase by 70 per cent (FAO 2009). Net investment in agriculture needs to exceed US$83 ...
Saving the Great Migrations: Declining Wildebeest in East Africa?: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - December 2013
(2013)
This issue is about the great migrations of wildebeest in East Africa.
Tunza: waste not
(UNEP, 2012)
The UNEP magazine for youth
Tunza vol. 8.4: health and the environment
(UNEP, 2011)
UNEP magazine for youth.