Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 24
Climate finance for cities and buildings: a handbook for local governments
(UNEP, 2014)
The objectives of this Handbook are to help raise awareness among local stakeholders regarding climate finance and its potential in the built environment, given the important role that this sector has to play in climate ...
UNEP emerging issues: global honey bee colony disorder and other threats to insect pollinators
(UNEP, 2010)
This report concludes that currently available global data and knowledge on the decline of pollinators are not sufficiently conclusive to demonstrate that there is a worldwide pollinator and related crop production crisis. ...
Integrated assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone: summary for decision makers
(UNEP, 2011)
This document summarizes findings and conclusions of the assessment report: Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone. The assessment looks into all aspects of anthropogenic emissions of black carbon ...
Ready, willing and able: empowering countries to meet the climate challenge
(UNEP, 2011)
UNEP's work on climate change is shaped by the UNFCCC talks and outcomes and helps countries to respond to their needs under the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol
Ecosystems for water and food security
(UNEP, 2011)
Against the current challenges to enhance food security worldwide, the publication aims at illustrating the importance of healthy ecosystems for the provisioning of key services that contribute to food security. Such ...
Ecosystems and human well-being: El Maghara, Northern Sinai, Egypt
(UNEP, 2010)
This assessment report is part of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. This initiative is a landmark in endeavour to understand and to formulate a decisive response among decision makers
Africa Environment Outlook 3: our environment, our health
(UNEP, 2013)
The Third Africa Environment Outlook (AEO-3), analyses the importance of, and interlinkages between, health and environment and the opportunities and synergies that might be derived from intensified collaboration between ...
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 ...
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. ...