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Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future - Summary for Policymakers
(2020)
This report conducts a rigorous assessment of the contribution of material efficiency to GHG abatement strategies. More concretely, it assesses the reduction potential of GHG emissions from material efficiency strategies ...
Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future - [Factsheet]
(2020)
This report conducts a rigorous assessment of the contribution of material efficiency to GHG abatement strategies. More concretely, it assesses the reduction potential of GHG emissions from material efficiency strategies ...
Implications of Expected Climate Changes in the Mediterranean Region: An Overview - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 103
(1989)
This paper reviews the results of the studies prepared by the Mediterranean Task Team, that were presented at a Joint meeting of the Task Team on implications of Climatic Changes in the Mediterranean and the Co-ordinators ...
Buildings and Climate Change: Summary for Decision Makers
(2009)
This Summary for Decision-Makers presents the current state of thinking on how the potential for greenhouse gas emission reductions in buildings can be realized. It was compiled by the Sustainable Building and Climate ...
UNEP in 2019 - Letter from the Executive Director [Annual Report]
(2020)
In lieu of an annual report, Executive Director Inger Andersen looks back in letter format on 2019, her first year in office. She calls it “a year when our past finally caught up with us and science provided an unambiguous ...
The Emissions Gap Report 2012 – Executive Summary
(2012)
One of the fundamental questions in the global climate negotiations is: what level of “ambition”, in terms of collective emission reductions, is needed to protect global climate? To help answer this question UNEP and the ...
UNEP and Partners: United to Combat Climate Change
(2007)
UNEP has more than twenty years of experience working on climate change. UNEP helped establish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in the 1980s and conducted ...
Vital Climate Change Graphics: A Spanner in the Climate Wheel
(2005)
This Vital Climate Graphics package seeks to translate the incredibly complex subject of climate change into material that can be useful to a broad range of readers. It is based on the Third Assessment Report, which was ...
UNEP/GEF Climate Change Study in Lesotho – Project Number GF/2200-96-16: Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Report for the Base Year 1994
(1998)
This report of the inventory of emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases is an initiative towards meeting Lesotho s obligation under article 4 of the Convention.
Nationally Determined Contributions [Frequently Asked Questions]
(2020)
This factsheet addresses the following questions: What are NDCs? How are NDCs affected by COVID-19? How is UNEP supporting countries to enhance their NDCs?