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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 ...
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 ...
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
Fourth Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law: Note by the Executive Director
(2008)
The annex to the present note contains the draft fourth Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo Programme IV) as contained in the annex to the report of the meeting of senior ...
Reforming Energy Subsidies: Opportunities to contribute to the Climate Change Agenda
(2008)
This report summarises, in a non-technical language, the nature, types and impacts of subsidies on energy that undermine the pursuit of sustainable development. It also offers recommendations to policy makers on how to ...
Climate Change and Tourism: Responding to Global Challenges
(2008)
This publication notes the vulnerability of the sector to climate change and the impacts of tourism on climate itself. It provides an excellent basis to address the global phenomenon of climate change, as well as to develop ...
Overview of Implementation of the Action Plan for the Environment Initiative of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development for the Reporting Period June 2006–May 2008 and Efforts Made to Mobilize Resources
(2008)
Report of the African Ministerial conference on the environment, Twelfth session held from 7 to 12 June 2008
Report of the Ministerial Segment held from 10 to 12 June 2008: African Ministerial Conference on the Environment - Twelfth Session
(2008)
African Ministerial Conference on the Environment - report of the ministerial segment
UNEP Background Paper on Green Jobs
(2008)
This Background Note provides a brief review of our present understanding of Green Jobs and the impact of climate change on the world of work highlighting the potential role of the international business community in support ...