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Report of the Third Meeting of the African High-Level Expert Panel on Climate Change
(2010)
The work of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) on climate change in Africa was initiated as a follow-up to the twelfth session of AMCEN, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 2008, during ...
Integrated Water Resources Management: Good Practices in Sudan - Adapt for Environment and Climate Resilience in Sudan (ADAPT!)
(2020)
This document is designed to collate information around Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) good practices and Sudanese case studies. It will form a baseline that can be used to inform project design and advocate ...
GCOS Surface Reference Network (GSRN): Justification, Requirements, Siting and Instrumentation Options - GCOS-226
(2019)
This document provides a proposal for the establishment of a GCOS Surface Reference Network (GSRN). Reference quality observations are directly traceable to the International System of Units (SI) standards and include full ...
Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions
(2019)
The impact of air pollution on human heath represents a serious public health crisis across Asia and the Pacific. Fewer than 8 per cent of the region’s people are exposed to levels of air pollution that do not pose a ...
Future Imperfect: Climate Change and Adaptation in the Carpathians
(2014)
This synthesis report is directed at policy makers and the public in the Carpathian region. It brings together important findings and recommendations about cli- mate change impacts and adaptation from three linked research ...
Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the South Caucasus Mountains
(2015)
T This outlook has been prepared to review and synthesize the existing climate change adaptation responses in the South Caucasus mountain region. It was undertaken in the context of the South Caucasus component of the ...
Sustainable Mountain Development in East Africa in a Changing Climate - Mountain Adaptation Outlook Series
(2016)
The United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal partnered and prepared a series of outlook reports on the need for urgent action to protect mountain ecosystems and to mitigate human risk from extreme events. This ...
The Clean Energy Voyage 2: Closer to the Destination
(2015)
From dirty to clean, from finite to renewable and from costly to profitable: the stakes are high, but people are inspired and clean energy is an idea whose time has come. As the world prepares to reach a historic agreement ...
Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
(2018)
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of climate change. Wide-ranging threats are already impacting ecosystems and millions of people living in the region and ...
Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management: A Primer
(2018)
This primer is designed to raise awareness of the multiple benefits of nature-based solutions. solutions most useful to water resources managers (section 3); and adopts the view that: • the first point of resilience to ...