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Water for Sustainable Development in Africa: Key Issues
(1995)
Part 1 of the following report focuses on the main objectives, targets and priority activities for Africa of the many Agenda 21 recommendations on waiter resources. It starts with a summary of the overall objective for ...
The Costs Benefits and Unmet Needs of Biological diversity in Kenya
(1992)
This Report is concerned with assessing the nature and extent of Kenya's biodiversity, examining why and in what ways it is being changed over time, what the reasons are for that change, what measures need to be taken to ...
Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Variations and Policy Responses in Brazil
(1992)
This study is an attempt to understand the direct and indirect interactions between climate and society in Brazil. A set of climate impact case studies were identified and experts were selected to undertake these assessments. ...
Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor - A Contribution to the Eighth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(2002)
The objective of this paper is to contribute to a global dialog on how to integrate adaptation to climate variability and climate change into poverty reduction. The paper was prepared jointly by the African Development ...
Preliminary Guidelines for Assessing Impacts of Climate Change
(1992)
This report aims to provide preliminary guidelines on methods of climate impact assessment. It outlines a basic framework for the study of climate-environment-society interactions, with a particular emphasis on assessing ...
The Global Climate System: Climate System Monitoring June 1986-November 1988
(1991)
This report, the third biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provides a basis for the monitoring of global change. Due to deficiencies in ...
GEO-6 for Youth Africa: A Wealth of Green Opportunities - Global Environment Outlook
(2019)
Africa’s sustainability future is bright. In that future, green jobs abound so much that youth unemployment is dealt a decisive blow. But for this future to materialise, young people, policymakers, private sector players, ...
Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report: Benefits of cooling efficiency and the Kigali Amendment
(2020)
Almost one-third of the world’s population faces dangerous temperatures for more than 20 days a year, while heatwaves cause 12,000 deaths annually. Staying cool is a health and productivity issue. We need to provide equitable ...
Ecology Note - Towards a Clean, Green and beautiful Capital City
(2019)
"Ecology Note – Towards Clean and Beautiful Capital City – is a supplementary material for primary school teachers who wish to introduce environmental education for the first time, or for those who want to enhance the scope ...
The United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Minamata Convention on Mercury: A comparison for the Coal Combustion Sector
(2015)
The UNFCCC is based on a top down approach, giving an overall goal for greenhouse gas reductions
but with flexibility on how to achieve these reductions. The UNFCCC can be regarded as the
instigator for activities and ...