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Gender and Environment: Empowering Rural Women: Access to Land and Natural Resources - SDG Policy Brief No. 002
(2018)
Women constitute approximately half of the rural labour force and are economically active in each subsector of the rural economy. Their livelihoods are often based on access to and control over natural resources. The ...
Nine of the Ten Hottest Years on Record All in the Last Decade - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) April 2011
(2011-04)
Four of the world's leading climate research centres agree that the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998.
Ancient Water is Used to Irrigate a Desert—Murzuq Basin, Libya - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) October 2010
(2010-10)
Libya relies on groundwater to meet 95 per cent of its water requirements; it is primarily "fossil water" from non-recharging aquifers such as the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, the North-Western Sahara Aquifer System ...
GEO Matters - April 2019
(2019-04)
The second Global Session of the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment convened from 9-10 March 2019 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya, on the eve of the fourth session of ...
GEO Matters - September 2018
(2018-09)
This September 2018 issue covers the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook summary for policy makers drafting meeting as well as a personal story on beating plastic pollution. An author and GEO fellow profile are ...
GEO Matters - May 2018
(2018-05)
Monthly Global Environment Outlook Newsletter
GEO Matters December 2019
(2019-12)
The ‘Future of GEO’ process, launched at the fourth United Nations Environment Assembly through
UNEP/EA.4/RES.23 was initiated to develop various options for the future of the Global Environment Outlook.
This process ...
Emerging Technologies: Smarter Ways to Fight Wildlife Crime - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) June 2014
(2014-06)
The illegal trade of animals—for luxury goods, traditional medicine or cultural ceremonies, pets, entertainment, and even research—is a major threat to wildlife conservation and welfare (Baker et al., 2013). Poachers and ...
GEO Matters - July 2017
(2017)
The goal of GEO for Youth is to firstly inform younger generations about the drivers of the environmental change, the current state of the environment and the future pathways we need to undertake to reach a sustainable ...
GEO Matters November 2019
(2019-11)
The Co-Chairs and Authors of GEO-6 for Cities met at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Vancouver Downtown from October 14-18, 2019 to familiarize the authors with the GEO process, logistics and procedures as well as allow for ...