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Ozzy ozone Defender of Our Planet - Issue No. 3: Oozzy Goes Polar
(2007)
Ozzy Ozone and his friend Zoe will be falling to the North Pole and then carried around by Tilman the Polar bear. They will learn what happens to earth’s protective shield, the ozone layer, and its interlinkage with global ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity: A review of the recent scientific literature
(2008)
The IPCC 4 Assessment Report (AR4) concluded that climate change will have significant impacts on many aspects of biological diversity. These impacts will include effects on ecosystems, on their component species and genetic ...
Ozzy ozone Defender of Our Planet - Issue No. 4: Ozzy Goes Island Hopping
(2008)
In this story Ozzy and Zoe Ozone travel from the stratosphere to visit their friends Alida, the leatherback turtle
GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment
(UNEP, 2005)
The GEO Year Book 2004/5 is the second in an important series which serves as a guide for policy makers and a stimulus to future action towards the achievement of sustainable development. A spin-off product of UNEP's ...
Converting Waste Plastics into a Resource - Compendium of Technologies
(, 2009)
This document is a compilation of technologies for the conversion of plastics into fuel which are in commercial use, under pilot implementation and under laboratory testing. It is aimed to raise awareness on the available ...
Global Marine Assessments: A Survey of Global and Regional Assessments and Related Scientific Activities of the Marine Environment
(2007)
The report provides a very useful starting point for conducting the Assessment of Assessments. It highlights the fact that the data available to assess the different ocean processes is patchy in both time and space. It ...
Handbook for the International Treaties for the Protection of the Ozone Layer Sixth Edition: The Vienna Convention (1985); The Montreal Protocol (1987)
(2003)
This Handbook, which updates the 2000 edition, incorporates all the adjustments, amendments and the decisions of the Parties up to the end of 2002. In addition, it gives valuable information on the implementation of these ...
A global overview of tropical marine, coastal and small island ecosystems and the World Heritage List
(, 2001)
A Global Strategy for a balanced and representative World Heritage List was adopted by the World Heritage Committee in 1994. Its aim is to ensure that the List reflects the world's cultural and natural diversity of outstanding ...
Carbon Emissions from Forest loss in Protected Areas
(, 2008)
This study combines the best available data on carbon stocks and deforestation with protected area data to estimate the area of forest loss within the protected area network of the humid tropical forest biome during ...
Biodiversity Indicators Capacity Strengthening: Experiences from Africa: Progress, Lessons Learnt and Needs for Future Indicator Development
(, 2005)
In the past few decades there has been growing understanding that human well-being' is fundamentally linked to the state of the environment. One manifestation of this is the increasing acceptance of biological diversity ...