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Protected Planet Report 2016: How Protected Areas Contribute to Achieving Global Targets for Biodiversity
(2016)
The report underscores the importance of protected areas in sustaining the functions and values of natural ecosystems as well as the needs of human society. It highlights the nature-based solutions that protected areas ...
Weather Radar Data Requirements for Climate Monitoring - GCOS-223
(2019)
Action A24 of the GCOS Implementation Plan (GCOS-200), calls for the implementation of an archive for radar reflectivities. The Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) at its Sixteenth session (WMO-1183) endorsed the GCOS ...
The ABC for Sustainable Cities: A Glossary for Policy Makers
(2016)
The ABC for Sustainable Cities aims to bring clarity on this. Rather than providing a single univocal definition of what is a “Sustainable City”, it brings together key elements of it by compiling terms and concepts from ...
25 Clean Air Measures for Asia and the Pacific
(2019)
Air pollution is not only a major health risk, it also has damaging impacts on the environment and agricultural crop yields. These impacts have significant economic consequences. While existing policies have made progress ...
Bilateral Finance Institutions and Climate Change: A Mapping of 2009 Climate Financial Flows to Developing Countries
(2010)
The present report is an effort by the UNEP Climate Change Working Group for Bilateral Finance Institutions (‘Working Group’ – see p. iii) to both transparently disclose their part of the present story of climate change ...
Tackling Global Challenges through Triangular Cooperation: Achieving Sustainable Development and Eradicating Poverty through the Green Economy
(2013)
This two-part volume is the joint work of an international team of experts and contains essays on triangular cooperation.
Regional briefing on National Adaptation Plans - Africa in Focus
(2018)
This briefing Regional briefing on National Adaptation Plans - Africa in Focus aims to provide a brief overview of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) experiences in these sub-Saharan African countries, highlighting emerging ...
Early Warning Systems: A State of the Art Analysis and Future Directions
(2012)
At a time of global changes, the world is striving to face and adapt to inevitable, possibly profound, alteration. Widening of droughts in southern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, an increasing number of disasters, severe ...
Elements of a New Climate Agreement by 2015 - Perspective Series 2013
(2013)
This chapter describes the gap between expected emissions in 2020 according to country pledges and the emissions consistent with the 2°C target, assuming the emission reduction proposals in the Copenhagen Accord and Cancún ...