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Grenada - National Report for Third International Conference
(United Nations Development Programme Subregional Officefor the OECS and Barbados, 2012)
Twenty years after the BPOA, the third International Conference on the SustainableDevelopment of SIDS will once again bring to fore the vulnerabilities anddevelopment needs of SIDS, with a view to identifying solutions and ...
Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries
(UNEP, 2008)
Forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing and storing carbon in their biomass and soils. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) discussions on reducing emissions from deforestation and ...
Environmental Impact Assessment: Sewage Treatment Plant for Port Said. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 133
(1991)
The fourth ordinary meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (Genoa, September 1985), when considering the workplan of the Priority Actions Programme Regional Activity Centre (PAP/RAG) of the Mediterranean ...
An Introduction to the Simple Climate Models used in the IPCC Second Assessment Report
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 1997)
This technical report is aimed at introducing the climate system and simple climate models (SCMs). This report has two objectives namely: to explain how SCMs work, the processes that are induced in them, what their strengths ...
Tina and the Green City
(UNEP, 2005)
Tina’s favourite thing to do was listen to her grandmother’s stories about the time before now. In Grandmother’s world, people lived in green meadows and forests; children played with the birds and animals, and splashed ...
Waterbirds on the Edge: first circumpolar assessment of climate change impact on Arctic Breeding water birds
(UNEP-WCMC, 2000)
This first analysis of the likely impact of climate change on biodiversity demonstrates the impact on Arctic waterbirds. The Arctic will be the biome most affected by climate change and hence waterbird species, most of ...
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation: global mechanisms, conservation and livelihoods (2007)
(UNEP, 2007)
This briefing considers the implications for biodiversity conservation and local people's livelihoods of the current discussion on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries (RED-DC, henceforth RED) under ...
Implications of Climate Change in West and Central African Region: An Overview. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 148
(UNEP, 1994)
Despite the uncertainties that surround the predicted climate change, greenhouse gases seems to have accumulated in the atmosphere to a level that changes may have started already and their continuation may be inevitable. ...
Needs Assessment Guidance to develop National Plans for Domestic Wastewater Pollution Reduction
(UNEP, 2003)
The role and responsibility of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is to coordinate cooperation among all countries in the region, strengthen national and subregional institutions, coordinate international ...
UNEP Post-Conflict Capacity Building Programme in Liberia
(UNEP, 2007)
UNEP commenced its post conflict work in Liberia in November 2003 by assuming the lead for the cross-cutting theme of “environment” in the UN/WB Needs Assessment. This responsibility involved integrating environmental ...