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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 ...
Arctic Report Card: update for 2012 (NOAA 2012)
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012)
What's new in 2012? New records set for low snow extent and sea ice extent, and for widespread ice sheet melting, despite air temperatures - a key cause of melting - being unremarkable relative to the last decade. Multiple ...
THE state of Environment in the Republic of Belarus [2005-2009]: National report
(2010)
The purpose of the report is to assess the environment of Belarus and to expose the tendencies of changes over a five year period (2005-2009) with application of international environmental indices, to identify causes and ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector: Frameworks, Tools and Practices
(UNEP, 2008)
The publication presents an overview of the current science and policy of climate change, followed by self-guidance material on mitigation and adaptation, exploring tools, methods and techniques associated with the management ...
Seychelles - National Report for Third International Conference
(Seychelles Government, 2013)
The Seychelles has once more denoted strong political commitment to sustainable development through the cabinet endorsement of its Sustainable Development Strategy 2011-2020. The SSDS 2020 revises and builds upon a successive ...
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 ...
City of Nairobi Environment Outlook
(2009)
A 'City Development Strategy using a bottom-up approach' to guide the planning of Nairobi is urgently needed to ensure that the Kenyan capital develops on an environmentally-friendly and sustainable path. The central ...
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. ...
Climate change and sustainable development: views from the South
(UNEP, 2002)
Kyoto protocol was always an imperfect and has been made all the more imperfect by the fact that world's largest polluter has decided to stay out of the consensus and those who have joined demanded and received changes ...
State of the Environment Report - Fiji
(Government of FijiIUCN - The World Conservation Union, 1992)
The report covers all the major issues which should be of concern to Fiji. Perhaps the most important aspect of the report is the fact that it makes us realise to what extent the environment and its resources support ...