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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 ...
The Disaster Risk, Global Change, and Sustainability Nexus
(2019)
This review retraces the brief history and evolution of the global understanding of disaster risk as a compound event, in parallel with research on global environmental change. It highlights the main milestones in this ...
Permafrost Peatlands: Losing Ground in a Warming World - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern Chapter 3
(2019)
Permafrost thaw is seen as one of the most important “tipping elements” that could precipitate a runaway greenhouse effect, or an uncontrollable “Hothouse Earth”. To avoid such a destructive scenario, it is critical that ...
Maladaptation to Climate Change: Avoiding Pitfalls on the Evolvability Pathway - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern Chapter 5
(2019)
As climate change negotiations progressed, researchers examined how and why some adaptation actions go awry, particularly those actions that waste substantial amounts of human, natural, or financial resources. Maladaptation ...
Cross-cutting Issues - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 4
(2019)
As understanding of the interdependence between a healthy planet and healthy people becomes more developed, complex issues that thread through systems and societies gain new importance. Beyond the traditional Global ...
Air - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 5
(2019)
In the GEO-6 regional assessments, air pollution, climate change and energy development, as well as the intersection
of these three issues, were identi ed as top priorities in every region. Growing cities, energy, and ...
Drivers of Environmental Change - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 2
(2019)
The five drivers reviewed in this chapter — population growth and demographics, urbanization, economic development, new technological forces, and climate change — have led to an unprecedented expansion of wealth for many ...
Systemic Policy Approaches for Cross-cutting Issues - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 17
(2019)
This chapter evaluates the capacity of environmental policies to achieve transformational change in addressing cross-cutting global sustainable development challenges. To this end, the chapter addresses the major challenges ...
Air Policy - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 12
(2019)
Policies enacted to address air pollution, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and PBTs should account for the mix of emissions, the atmospheric or environmental lifetime of the pollutant and its associated bene ...
Pre-2020 Action: Trends and Progress - The Emissions Gap Report 2017 Chapter 2
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)
This chapter provides an update, based on the latest available scientific literature, on trends in global emissions and progress towards the G20 members meeting their Cancun Pledges. These trends give key indications of ...