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    • Africa Mountains Atlas 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2014)
      The mountains of Africa provide water and food, rich biodiversity, recreational areas and serve as important centres of cultural integrity and heritage. However, Africa faces growing challenges in ensuring the sustainable ...
    • Atlas of Africa Energy Resources 

      United Nations Environment Programme; African Development Bank (2017)
      This Atlas compiles and synthesizes regional and national information. It presents the scale and distribution of energy resources, production and consumption trends, as well as the existing potential for environmentally ...
    • Energy Profile: Chad 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2017)
      Although crude oil has become the country’s primary source of export earnings, energy access for the population is very low. Electricity production in 2015 was 28 ktoe with 96.4 per cent of it generated from fossil fuels. ...
    • Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change 

      United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women); United Nations Development Programme (2020)
      This report offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how gender, climate and security are linked (section II), and shares – through a series of brief case studies – practical examples of empirical research, ...
    • Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change - Report Summary 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2020)
      This report offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how gender, climate and security are linked (section II), and shares – through a series of brief case studies – practical examples of empirical research, ...
    • Global International Waters Assessment: Lake Chad Basin, GIWA Regional Assessment 43 

      University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme (University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)
      This report represents the GIWA Assessment of the Lake Chad Basin, which is located in one of the poorest and most drought prone regions in the world. Climatic variability and poor water governance has threatened the ...
    • Internship Project On the Land Use Policies and Land Tenure In the Arid and Semi-arid Countries of Post-Independence Africa 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Desertification Control Programme Activity Centre (1993)
      This project on land use policy and land tenure in the and and semi-arid countries of post-independence Africa has spanned the course of just under six weeks.We have compiled information on the following countries: Algeria, ...
    • The Lake Chad Conventional Basin: A Diagnostic Study of Environmental Degradation 

      United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office (UNSO) (1990)
      The Lake Chad Conventional Basin: A Diagnostic Study of Environmental Degradation summarizes the symptoms of environmental "ill health" in the basin, such as erosion of formerly productive lands, overused groundwater, loss ...
    • Livelihood security: Climate Change, Conflict and Migration in the Sahel - Executive summary 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2011-12)
      The Sahelian countries (CILSS) are among the poorest countries in the world with the most degraded environments. They are also among the countries that are the most vulnerable to the estimated effects of climate change. ...
    • Regional Report on Efficient Lighting in Sub-Saharan African Countries 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2012)
      The report examines and assesses the lighting initiatives for each country. It also focuses on the successes and insights obtained by some of the pioneering countries that have initiated programs to phase out inefficient ...