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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 ... -
Human Rights, the Environment and COVID-19 - Key Messages: Human Rights at the Heart of Response
(2020)The COVID-19 crisis reveals a clear truth about catastrophic risk in an increasingly globalized world: an effective response requires immediate, ambitious and evidence-based preventive action at the international level. ... -
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". -
Key Messages - Preventing the Next Pandemic – Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission
(2020)This evidence-based scientific assessment has identified the following key messages for decision-makers: 1) De-risking food systems; 2) Urgency; 3) Report audience; 4) Scope of the problem; 5) Outbreak frequency and ... -
Lake Urmia: Signs of Recovery - Foresight Brief No. 004 - November 2017
(2017)Lake Urmia, located in a mountainous region between the provinces of East and West Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran is one of the country’s most important ecosystems. Recent indications are that the lake is recovering. The ... -
Marine Plastics Litter and Microplastics - Foresight Brief No. 002 - September 2017
(2017)The global production of plastics has increased from 1.5 million tons in 1950s to about 300 million tons currently, at an average rate of 4 per cent per annum and is expected to continue growing (Boucher and Friot 2017). ... -
National Action Plan for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Egypt 2015: SwitchMed Programme - Executive Summary
(2015)This document is intended to identify key priority activities and projects needed to support the creation of sustainable communities and cities in Egypt through the promotion of sustainable consumption and production ... -
Putting Carbon Back Where It Belongs: The Potential of Carbon Sequestration in the Soil - Foresight Brief No. 013 May 2019
(2019-05)Soil’s contribution to climate change, through the oxidation of soil carbon, is important. However, soils – and thus agriculture - can play a major role in mitigating climate change. Through multiple agricultural practices, ... -
Recommendations for the Tourism Sector to Continue Taking Action on Plastic Pollution during COVID-19 Recovery
(2020)The following five recommendations are addressed to tourism stakeholders with the aim of supporting them to continue fighting plastic pollution during the COVID-19 recovery. This document illustrates how reducing the ... -
REDD+ Safeguards Information Systems: Moving from Design to Operation - UN-REDD Programme Info Brief
(2020)Under the policy and incentives mechanism for climate change mitigation that is REDD+, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requires participating countries to develop a ‘system for providing ... -
Revisiting Ocean Acidification, Food Security and Our Earth System - Foresight Brief No. 009 - July 2018
(2018-07)Ocean acidification is a global issue, which is affecting all ocean regions. It is important as it may have severe impacts on marine organisms and ecosystems. Loss of biodiversity is a likely result, accompanied by a ... -
Saving Lake Faguibine - Foresight Brief No. 001 - August 2017
(2017)The Faguibine system, located in the Tombouktou region in Mali is a series of five interlinked lakes (Télé, Takara, Gouber, Kamango and Faguibine). In the late 19th century the floodplain extended over an area of 1,000 ... -
Seagrasses, the Forgotten Ecosystems - Foresight Brief No. 016 May 2020
(2020)Seagrass meadows significantly support world fisheries production and global food security, providing valuable nursery habitat for over one fifth of the world’s largest fisheries (Unsworth et al. 2019), as well as shelter ... -
Smoke-haze: A Transboundary Air Pollution Issue in Southeast Asia - Foresight Brief No. 007 - March 2018
(2018)The importance of this issue lies in the fact that smoke haze pollution has been occurring for several decades in Southeast Asia and with each passing year the pollution gets worse and lasts longer (Lin et al 2017). While ... -
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. ... -
Sudan: First State of Environment and Outlook Report 2020: Environment for Peace and Sustainable Development - Executive Summary
(2020)The overall objective of the Sudan First State of the Environment and Outlook 2020 Report (SoE) is to document and to assess the current status of the environment in Sudan and to propose scenarios and policy options. The ... -
Summaries of Information: Initial Experiences and Recommendations on International REDD+ Safeguards Reporting - UN-REDD Programme Info Brief
(2020)The present information brief explores the more recent country experiences and lessons learned in developing summaries of information, based on the review of an increased range of summaries and the experience of the Programme ... -
Sustainability Reporting in the Mining Sector: Current Status and Future Trends - Summary
(2020)This report provides a comprehensive overview of the status of sustainability reporting in the mining sector, including a focus on transparency and reporting in the mineral supply chain. Through recommendations and inspiring ... -
Think Piece: Gender and Climate Change in the Context of COVID-19
(2020)2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and to ...