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A Commitment to the Future: Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1992)
Between 1974 and 1992 I gave more than 600 statements and lectures on various aspects of the environment to governmental meetings, scientific conferences, international gatherings and non-governmental organizations. This ...
Action Plan for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the Southeast Pacific - Brief Information
(1997)
The Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the Southeast Pacific, approved in 1981 by a Plenipotentiaries Conference, as well as the Convention for the Protection of the Marine ...
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)
This volume, Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Fisheries, addresses the potential implications for fisheries and societies of the regional impacts of a global warming of the atmosphere. Fisheries case studies were ...
Combating Global Climate Change by Combating Land Degradation: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya
(1995)
An International Workshop was held to consider land degradation in drylands and its management, particularly as it relates to carbon management as a means to combat global warming. Twenty specialists from nine countries ...
The Nairobi Declaration on Climatic Change - International Conference on Global Warming and Climatic Change: African Perspectives
(1990)
The International Conference on Global Warming and Climatic Change: African Perspectives was held at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya (May 2-4, 1990) to examine the possible ...
Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Response to Future Climatic Conditions in the Marine And Coastal Regions of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, and the Northeast Coast Of South America - CEP Technical Report 22
(1993)
This study emphasizes the marine and coastal environment and addresses the implications of climatic change in the Intra-Americas Sea and its environs. To facilitate understanding the technical terms of this report, a ...
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Voluntary Programmes
(1997)
The United Nations estimates that total global energy consumption in the agri-cultural, buildings, industrial, and trans-portation sectors together could be reduced by 35 per cent by the year 2020 through the adoption of ...
Reefs at Risk: Coral Reefs, Human Use and Global Climate Change - A Programme of Action
(1993)
For once, the popular mythology contains some truth. Coral reefs can be likened to tropical forests in certain important ways. Both reefs and jungles are biologically diverse in comparison with other ecosystems. Reefs are ...
Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics : Summary Record - Environmental Economics Series Paper No.4
(1992-02)
The Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics was sponsored by UNEP in order to solicit expert advice on how the discipline of economics can assist UNEP better fulfil its catalytic, coordinating, consensus-building ...
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 27, 1995: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1995)
In this issue: Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Convention to Combat Desertification - Summary of the Seventh Session; Presentation of the Saving the Drylands Awards on the Occasion of the World Day to Combat ...