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The PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change - Summary
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2013)
The PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change provides a framework for considering the full range of approaches to VIA assessment. It aims to help professionals such as researchers, ...
Policy implications of warming permafrost
(UNEP, 2012)
This report describes the current and potential future status of permafrost and makes policy recommendations to address the impacts of permafrost degradation in a warming climate. Climate projections in the fifth Assessment ...
Adaptation to Climate-change Induced Water stress in the Nile Basin - A vulnerability assessment report
(UNEP, 2013)
The Nile River Basins rich ecological resources are vital to the 238 million people living in the region. The basins natural environment is the ultimate source of its economic activities (production and consumption) and ...
Innovative climate finance: examples from the UNEP bilateral finance institutions climate change working group
(UNEP, 2011)
Two key parallel streams of work have been on policy (e.g. what constitutes investment grade policy) and identifying and tracking international flows of funds and investments for what might be described as climate finance. ...
Waste and Climate Change - Global Trends and Strategy Framework
(UNEP, 2010)
The sound management of waste can have substantial co-benefits for efforts to address climate change. As a first step to realize these co-benefits, this report seeks - To examine the potential of climate impacts and benefits ...
Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: 2010 Assessment
(UNEP, 2010)
This quadrennial Assessment was prepared by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) for the Parties to the Montreal Protocol. The Assessment reports on key findings on environment and health since the last full ...
A practical framework for planning pro-development climate policy
(UNEP, 2012)
MCA4climate is a major new UNEP initiative providing practical assistance to governments in preparing their climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies. It aims to help governments, particularly in ...
Moving towards a climate neutral UN
(2011)
In October 2007 the UN Chief Executives Board approved the UN Climate Neutral Strategy, which committed all UN agencies, funds and programmes to move towards climate neutrality within the wider context of greening the UN. ...
Protecting arctic biodiversity: limitations and strengths of environmental agreements
(UNEP, 2010)
The Arctic region is characterized by some of the largest continuous intact ecosystems on the planet, but is facing increasingly larger threats. These threats include the full range of stressors known from other parts of ...
Youthxchange climate change and lifestyles guidebook
(UNEP, 2011)
The YouthXchange guidebook on climate change and lifestyles is the first in a series of thematic guidebooks supporting the YouthXchange Initiative. The thematic guidebooks take into account challenges, opportunities, good ...