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Haiti - Dominican Republic: Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone - Executive Summary
(2013)
This document provides up-to-date information and confirms the close relationship that exists between the state of transboundary natural resources, poverty, and recurring social conflicts.
Republic of South Sudan: National Adaption Programmes of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change
(2016-09)
South Sudan’s NAPA specifies five priority activities (referred to as Priority Adaptation Projects) for effective climate change adaptation across the five identified priority thematic areas, namely: i) Environment; ii) ...
UNEP Programme Performance Report 2016
(2016)
UN Environment this year commemorates 45 years of its existence with a track record in leading efforts to protect our environment. Established in December 1972 as a follow up to the Stockholm Conference on the Human ...
UN Environment COP22 Events
(2016)
This brochure highlights key UN Environment events during COP22.
The Emissions Gap Report 2016: A UNEP Synthesis Report
(2016)
In line with previous reports, the objective of the 2016 Emissions Gap Report is to provide an up-to-date scientific assessment of the global progress towards the emissions reductions required to be on track to meet the ...
UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
(2016)
The Compendium presents a compilation of laws and regulations from around the world, that have been found innovative and creatively promoting green economy. It highlights the innovative provisions which promote resource ...
Understanding Synergies and Mainstreaming among the Biodiversity Related Conventions : A Special Contributory Volume by Key Biodiversity Convention Secretariats and Scientific Bodies
(2016-09)
This multi-author volume is an attempt by the United Nations Environment to engage with the Heads of various biodiversity related conventions and Chairs of Scienti c Bodies of the conventions to understand the opportunities ...
Climate Change and Human Rights
(2015-12)
This UNEP report sheds light on the human rights obligations of both governments and private actors in responding to climate change, including those relating to rights to information, public participation in decision-making ...
Faces of Change
(2016)
It’s easy to get bogged down in the debate and forget the human face of climate change. Climate change is not just an abstract debate over statistics – it’s about people and the impacts they’re facing but it’s also about ...
Methodology of national and global studies - The Emissions Gap Report 2017 Chapter 3 Appendix A
(2017)
This chapter provides an update on the mitigation challenge associated with the global temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, and the estimated global emission levels under various assumptions regarding the implementation ...