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Grenada - National Report for Third International Conference
(United Nations Development Programme Subregional Officefor the OECS and Barbados, 2012)
Twenty years after the BPOA, the third International Conference on the SustainableDevelopment of SIDS will once again bring to fore the vulnerabilities anddevelopment needs of SIDS, with a view to identifying solutions and ...
Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries
(UNEP, 2008)
Forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing and storing carbon in their biomass and soils. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) discussions on reducing emissions from deforestation and ...
UNEP - WCMC annual report 2001
(UNEP, 2001)
Biodiversity is the defining characteristic of planet Earth. But our understanding of living things, their role in ecological processes and, most importantly, their significance to our own future, remains poor. What we do ...
Tina and the Green City
(UNEP, 2005)
Tina’s favourite thing to do was listen to her grandmother’s stories about the time before now. In Grandmother’s world, people lived in green meadows and forests; children played with the birds and animals, and splashed ...
Waterbirds on the Edge: first circumpolar assessment of climate change impact on Arctic Breeding water birds
(UNEP-WCMC, 2000)
This first analysis of the likely impact of climate change on biodiversity demonstrates the impact on Arctic waterbirds. The Arctic will be the biome most affected by climate change and hence waterbird species, most of ...
The Emissions Gap Report 2012: A UNEP Synthesis Report
(2012)
This report reviews a number of successful policy actions that have been effective in substantially reducing emissions at the national level. For example, appliance standards, performance standards for vehicles, and economic ...
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation: global mechanisms, conservation and livelihoods (2007)
(UNEP, 2007)
This briefing considers the implications for biodiversity conservation and local people's livelihoods of the current discussion on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries (RED-DC, henceforth RED) under ...
Needs Assessment Guidance to develop National Plans for Domestic Wastewater Pollution Reduction
(UNEP, 2003)
The role and responsibility of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is to coordinate cooperation among all countries in the region, strengthen national and subregional institutions, coordinate international ...
UNEP Post-Conflict Capacity Building Programme in Liberia
(UNEP, 2007)
UNEP commenced its post conflict work in Liberia in November 2003 by assuming the lead for the cross-cutting theme of “environment” in the UN/WB Needs Assessment. This responsibility involved integrating environmental ...
Fiji National Report on Progress in implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for FurtherImplementation (MSI) of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA);2010 2012
(Fijian Government, 2013)
The United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in2012 (known as Rio+20) called for the convening in 2014 of a third internationalconference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The ...