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Impacts of Sand and Dust storms on Oceans: A Scientific Environmental Assessment for Policy Makers - Executive Summary
(2020)
Sand and dust storms (SDS) are common in deserts and semi-deserts when strong winds blow over dry soils with little or no vegetation. Dust generated by SDS is often raised high into the atmosphere and transported over long ...
Key Findings - Used Vehicles and the Environment: Global Overview of Used Light Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and Regulation
(2020)
This document presents the key findings of the report "Used Vehicles and the Environment: Global Overview of Used Light Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and Regulation".
Getting Climate-smart with the Mountain Gorilla in the Greater Virunga Landscape: A Species and Climate Change Brief for the Vanishing Treasures Programme
(2020)
Mountains are an important refuge for biodiversity, providing shelter to many endangered animal and plant species through high altitude and relatively inaccessible landscapes. In Africa, the biodiverse Albertine Rift is a ...
Getting Climate-smart with the Snow Leopard in Central Asia: A Species and Climate Change Brief for the Vanishing Treasures Programme
(2020)
This brief is one in a series that also includes the mountain gorilla and the royal Bengal tiger, produced under the Vanishing Treasures programme. Its goal is to highlight how climate change is – and will be – impacting ...
Getting Climate-smart with the Royal Bengal Tiger in Bhutan: A Species and Climate Change Brief for the Vanishing Treasures Programme
(2020)
This brief is one of three in a series that also includes the mountain gorilla and the snow leopard, produced under the Vanishing Treasures programme. Its goal is to highlight how climate change is – and will be – impacting ...
The Future of Electric Vehicles and Material Resources: A Foresight Brief
(2020)
The main goals of this foresight brief are to: • highlight major opportunities and challenges in the mainstreaming of EVs, • examine the sustainability case of EVs by focusing on material resources, and • offer policy ...
Blockchain Technology and Environmental Sustainability - Foresight Brief No. 19 October 2020
(2020)
This Foresight Brief explores how blockchain technology could contribute to enhancing environmental sustainability management. The brief builds upon environmental use cases to review the technology’s key features, including ...
Strengthening Synergies: How Action to Achieve Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets Can Contribute to Mitigating Climate Change
(2020)
The essential contribution of nature to addressing climate change provides an opportunity to strengthen the links between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. ...
Adapt to Survive: Business Transformation in a Time of Uncertainty - GEO for Business Brief No. 1
(2020)
The them of this GEO for Business brief is: Adapt to survive: what transformational change means for business: An overarching introductory brief which covers the call from GEO for transformational change – what will ...