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Chapter 4. Bridging the Gap: Sectoral Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Potentials in 2030 - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)The chapter provides a detailed review of greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials in 2030 for key economic sectors. Sectoral emission reduction potentials, also called bottom-up potentials, provide detailed estimates ... -
Chapter 4. Global progress on adaptation finance - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter provides an update on the adaptation finance gap for developing countries (defined as the non-Annex I countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]), as reported in previous ... -
Chapter 4. Loss and Damage: Unavoidable Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)Anthropogenic climate change is underway and will continue for the foreseeable future. It is manifesting more rapidly and more intensely than many expected.1,2 The most recent global assessment by the Intergovernmental ... -
Chapter 4. The Nitrogen Fix: From Nitrogen Cycle Pollution to Nitrogen Circular Economy - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)Nitrogen is an extremely abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere. In the form of the N2 molecule, nitrogen is harmless, making up 78 per cent of every breath we take. The two nitrogen atoms are held together by a strong ... -
Chapter 4: Freshwater-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)Many relationships were identified as significant for freshwater-related ecosystems. This chapter explores the significance of such relationships and whether such relationships are confirmed by scientific evidence. -
Chapter 5. Bridging the Gap: Phasing out Coal - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)If the temperature increase is to be kept well below 2°C by 2100, the global economy must undergo rapid decarbonization. -
Chapter 5. Global progress on adaptation implementation - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)The objective of this chapter is to provide a global assessment of the implementation of adaptation, with a particular focus on developing countries. It provides essential information that would not be apparent from solely ... -
Chapter 5. Maladaptation to Climate Change: Avoiding Pitfalls on the Evolvability Pathway - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)As climate change negotiations progressed, researchers examined how and why some adaptation actions go awry, particularly those actions that waste substantial amounts of human, natural, or financial resources. Maladaptation ... -
Chapter 5. Poisoned Chalice: Toxin Accumulation in Crops in the Era of Climate Change - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)Extreme climatic conditions reduce yields and increase postharvest losses. They also trigger biophysical reactions in plants in response to environmental stresses. These reactions include concentrating chemical compounds ... -
Chapter 5: Marine-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)SDG 14 is the dedicated goal towards the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources. This goal includes 10 targets and 10 indicators related directly to marine-related ecosystems. Yet only ... -
Chapter 6. Bridging the Gap: The Role of Short-lived Climate Pollutants - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)This chapter outlines the opportunities to reduce the emissions gap afforded by limiting emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). This is a topic that has not been included in previous Emissions Gap Reports. -
Chapter 6. Emerging consequences of COVID-19 on adaptation planning and finance - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter aims to synthesize the literature that describes how COVID-19 has impacted country-level “adaptive capacity” (see the glossary for a definition and discussion below) and identifies emerging opportunities for ... -
Chapter 6. The Latest Frontier: Exotic Consumerism: Illegal Trade in Live Animals - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)Great apes and other live animals comprise a highly pro$table and symbolic aspect of the US$23 billion illegal wildlife trade--the fourth most lucrative black market after drugs, people and arms smuggling – and the live ... -
Chapter 7. Bridging the Gap: Carbon Dioxide Removal - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)Carbon dioxide removal (sometimes called carbon removal or CDR) refers to a cluster of technologies, practices and approaches that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Despite the common denominator of ... -
Chapter 7. Outlook on global progress - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter synthesizes findings from chapters 3 to 6 of this report, with the aim of providing an overview of the status of global progress on adaptation (section 7.1). It also offers an outlook for future developments ... -
Cities: Investing in Energy and Resource efficiency - Towards a Green Economy Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication
The chapter makes a case for green cities. It describes the environmental, social and economic consequences of greening urban systems and infrastructure, and provides guidance to policy makers on how to make cities more ... -
The Emissions Gap Report 2016: Annex A.1
(2016)This Technical Annex to Chapter 3 of the 2016 UNEP Emissions Gap Report provides technical background to the computations supporting the discussion in the chapter. It reproduces parts of the Annex to Chapter 2a of the 2015 ... -
Enabling Conditions Supporting the Transition to a Global Green Economy - Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication
The report demonstrates that certain enabling conditions need to be created and maintained to attract investment in green economic activity. This chapter focuses on the measures that could be feasibly introduced in the ... -
Environmental Displacement: Human mobility in the Anthropocene - Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2017)The interlacing trends of climate change, population growth, rising consumption, large infrastructure projects and environmental degradation may lead to greater numbers of people displaced in future. This is particularly ... -
Finance: Supporting the Transition to a Global Green Economy - Towards a Green Economy Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication
The chapter examines how the green economy is currently being financed and explores the priorities and potential methods for increasing these investments. It makes the case for scaling up financing to help drive the ...