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Republic of South Sudan: National Adaption Programmes of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change
(2016-09)
South Sudan’s NAPA specifies five priority activities (referred to as Priority Adaptation Projects) for effective climate change adaptation across the five identified priority thematic areas, namely: i) Environment; ii) ...
UNEP Programme Performance Report 2016
(2016)
UN Environment this year commemorates 45 years of its existence with a track record in leading efforts to protect our environment. Established in December 1972 as a follow up to the Stockholm Conference on the Human ...
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 ...
The Emissions Gap Report 2016: A UNEP Synthesis Report
(2016)
In line with previous reports, the objective of the 2016 Emissions Gap Report is to provide an up-to-date scientific assessment of the global progress towards the emissions reductions required to be on track to meet the ...
Climate Change and Human Rights
(2015-12)
This UNEP report sheds light on the human rights obligations of both governments and private actors in responding to climate change, including those relating to rights to information, public participation in decision-making ...
Faces of Change
(2016)
It’s easy to get bogged down in the debate and forget the human face of climate change. Climate change is not just an abstract debate over statistics – it’s about people and the impacts they’re facing but it’s also about ...
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 ...
Methodology used in Chapter 4 - The Emissions Gap Report 2017 Chapter 4 Appendix B
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)
The chapter provides a detailed review of greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials in 2030 for key economic sectors. Sectoral emission reduction potentials, also called bottom-up potentials, provide detailed estimates ...
Eco-i Manual - Metals Supplement
(2016)
The sector specific supplement for metals value chains is an integral part of the Eco-I manual, as it applies the eco-innovation methodology with all its phases and activities on the metals value chain. Valuable background ...
Vulnerability and Climate Change Impact Assessments for Adaptation: VIA Module
(2009)
The module on Climate Change Vulnerability and Impact Assessment (VIA), as well as the version for cities, outline key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic ...