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Atlas of Rwanda's Changing Environment - Implications for Climate Change Resilience
(Rwanda Environment Management Authority, 2011)
The Atlas of Rwanda's Changing Environment is a visual account of Rwanda's state of natural resources revealed through maps, current and historical satellite images, aerial and ground photographs as well as narrative based ...
Guidebook On National Legislation For Adaptation To Climate Change
(2011)
This Guidebook, which is based on the outcome of a UNEP pilot project that was carried out in three South East Asian countries in 2009-2010 - Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam - is intended to serve as a tool to help decision-makers ...
Geoengineering to Combat Global Warming: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - May 2011
(2011)
As average temperatures continue to climb because of climate change some scientists are proposing quick fixes to buy time. Recent overviews of geoengineering schemes show that tampering with large-scale natural systems can ...
Greening Cement Production has a Big Role to Play in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions -UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - November 2010
(2010)
Next to water, concrete is the second-most consumed substance on earth
SIDS-FOCUSED Green Economy: An Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2012)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have placed sustainable development prominently on their agenda for twenty years, since the 1992 Earth Summit recognised the special case of SIDS. The concept of the Green Economy is ...
Carbon, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services: Exploring Co-benefits Cambodia
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2010)
The benefits of actions to maintain and enhance carbon stocks for climate change mitigation can be increased by taking into account the distribution not only of carbon, but of other ecosystem services, such as biodiversity. ...
Carbon, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services: Exploring Co-benefits Ecuador
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2010)
The benefits of actions to maintain and enhance carbon stocks for climate change mitigation can be increased by taking into account the relationship between the distributions of carbon, biodiversity, and other factors of ...
A practical framework for planning pro-development climate policy
(UNEP, 2012)
MCA4climate is a major new UNEP initiative providing practical assistance to governments in preparing their climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies. It aims to help governments, particularly in ...
Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: An Analysis of Economic Values at Risk
(United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2014)
This report presents preliminary values-at-risk (VAR) estimates for key resources expected to be impacted by climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). These include rural and urban infrastructure, worker productivity, ...
Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Impacts Assessment
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2012)
March 1991. These tasks were: prediction of the regional distributions of climate change and associated impacts studies, including model validation studies