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Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities Partnership (2004-2008 Report): Supporting Universities to Respond to Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Challenges
(2008)
This report documents the growth, in participation in MESA since 2004, as well as the outcomes that are visible at university and regional levels following various activities that have taken place across the African continent ...
Africa Environment Outlook: Policy and Action Recommendations for a Sustainable Future
(2002)
The main purpose of the AEO report is to provide comprehensive and credible environmental information in a way that is relevant to policy making. The structure of the report combines comprehensive environmental information ...
Asia-Pacific Environment Outlook 2
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2001)
This report analyzes the state of changes of environment and natural resources that took place over the last hundred years. Time series data on land, forest, biodiversirv, water, marine and atmosphere revealed the alarming ...
Economic Instruments for Promoting Sustainable Natural Resource Use, Environmental sustainability and Responses to Climate Change
(2009)
This report was prepared to inform the formulation of the five-year National Development Plan (NDP), whose theme is ‘Growth, Employment and Prosperity’. It is based on a study that draws lessons learned from over a decade ...
Enhancing the Contribution of Weather, Climate and Climate Change to Growth, Employment and Prosperity
(UNDP/NEMA/UNEP Poverty Environment Initiative, Uganda, 2009)
The objectives of this paper are i) To highlight the significance of weather and climate in the development process and raise concern regarding the likely impacts of climate change to the development process; ii) To propose ...
Development of an Action Plan for the Environment Initiative of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): Programme Area 5 - Combating Climate Change in Africa
(2000)
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) is an historical initiative aimed at promoting sustainable development for the benefit of present and future generations. The sustainable use of African natural resources ...
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Recent discussion of biodiversity loss has focused on its expected ecological consequences, as well as on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, and economic effects this loss will have on our world. Sustaining Lfe is the ...
GEO for Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Open your Eyes to the Environment
(2001)
This is a report on the state of the environment in the region, in addition to being a real source of inspiration for people and institutions to contribute to the safeguarding of the environment. The young authors offer a ...
Focus on your World: Photographs from the United Nations Environment Programme
(2000)
effects of global warming. This mainly occurs as the result of the build-up in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases. Scientists have identified global warming as a major threat to the future of ...
Impacts of Climate Change: How can we Adapt? - A Simplified Guide to the IPCC's "Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"
(2008)
This booklet summarises the most recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the current knowledge concerning climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability