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Proposed Programme of Work and Budget for the Biennium 2020‒2021 - Report of the Executive Director
(2019)
The present report sets out the proposed programme of work and budget for the biennium 2020–2021, reflecting the outcome of consultations with the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment ...
Report on the COBSEA Regional Train-the-Trainer Course on Spatial Planning in the Coastal and Marine Zone of the EAS Region
(2012-05-18)
From May 14 to 18, 2012, 34 participants from six East Asian countries met in Phuket Thailand to participate in the Sida-sponsored, UNEP/COBSEA Regional Train-the-Trainer Course on Spatial Planning ...
Regional Inception Workshop of the COBSEA YEOSU Project: Addressing the Challenge of Sea-Level rise and Coastal Erosion in the East Asian Seas
(2012-08)
Coastal erosion is recognized as one of the major impacts of climate change-induced sea-level rise. The developing countries of the East Asian region face the prospects of severe loss of coastal ecosystems, communities and ...
A Regional Approach to the Sustainable and Ecosystem-Based Management of Coastal Erosion in the East Asian Seas Region: A Resource Document
(2011)
This resource document builds on the current understanding of coastal erosion processes and policy responses from the region and around the world. It provides EAS member countries with a two-step process to develop a logical ...
Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Selected Case Studies from Africa
(2019)
Efforts to protect the environment can have a negative impact on people’s livelihoods if it does not increase livelihood options from the ecosystem. So how do we maintain a healthy environment as
climate changes and at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 26, 1995: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1995)
In this issue: International Convention to Combat Desertification - Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee; Interactions of Desertification and Climate: An Overview; Use of Highly Saline Water for ...
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 13, 1986: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1986)
In this issue: Satellite remote sensing of desert spatial extent; Desertification in Botswana: progress towards a viable monitoring system; Soil at risk; Combating desertification in Zimbabwe; Desertification in India: ...
Peatlands Rewetting, Restoration and Conservation Offers a low-cost, Low-tech, High Impact Nature-Based Solution for Climate Action
(2019)
The Global Peatlands Initiative is a partnership of 28 organizations aiming to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and save thousands of lives by protecting peatlands, the world’s largest terrestrial-soil organic carbon ...