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Sustainable travel in the United Nations
(2010)
This report seeks to provide guidance on what UN and organizations can do to improve sustainability of their travel, and in particular how to reduce their travel related climate footprints. The report provides an overall ...
Women at the frontline of climate change: gender risks and hopes
(UNEP, 2011)
Women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing increasingly frequent droughts and floods which are having economic but also profound social consequences. The ...
Africa water Atlas
(UNEP, 2010)
This Atlas is a visual account of Africa's endowment and use of water resources, revealed through 224 maps and 104 satellite images as well as some 500 graphics and hundreds of compelling photos. However the Atlas is more ...
Assessment of Freshwater Resources Vulnerability to Climate Change
(UNEP, 2011)
Countries of the West Asia region have been experiencing different degrees of natural and anthropogenic water risk regarding the sustainability of their limited water resources and preservation of the ecosystem equilibrium. ...
Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2025: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
The aims of the Strategy are as follows: to provide a strategic policy framework to secure a sustainable future for the Mediterranean region
Global gender and environment outlook: The critical issues
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
The global gender and environment outlook provides an overview of critical evaluations and analyses of the interlinkages between gender and the environment, and their importance for gender-sensitive policymaking and actions.
Loss and Damage: The Role of Ecosystem Services
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
This report tries to advance understanding of climatic stressor effects on ecosystems and possible correlations and implications for societal losses and damages. Five case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America ...
Technologies for adaptation perspectives and practical experiences
(UNEP, 2011)
This publication serves as an introduction to the second volume of the UNEP RIS Centre Technology Transfer Perspectives Series. The current volume is related to the global Technology Needs Assessment ...
GEO-6: Global Environment Outlook: Regional assessment for West Asia
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
In this assessment, the UNEP Secretariat and the authorsprovide an objective evaluation and analysis designed tosupport environmental decision making. Expert judgmentis applied to existing knowledge to provide scientific ...
World heritage and tourism in a changing climate
(United Nations Environment ProgrammeUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2016)
This report provides an overview of the increasing vulnerability of World Heritage sites to climate change impacts and the potential implications for and of global tourism. It also examines the close relationship between ...