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The Adaptation Gap Report 2018
(2018)
The Adaptation Gap Reports focus on providing policy-relevant information to support such efforts. The focus of the 2018 report is dual: The first part examines the gaps that exist in a number of areas that are central to ...
Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative: Closing Knowledge Gaps to Scale up Adaptation
(2018)
Knowledge gaps constitute significant barriers to successful climate change adaption actions, whether it is the absence of knowledge, lack of access to existing knowledge or the disconnect between knowledge holders and ...
Implications of Climate Changes in the Wider Caribbean Region - CEP Technical Report 03
(1989)
This report presents a study emphasizing the marine and coastal environments of the Wider Caribbean Region and the implications brought on by climate change. The study has a scope limited to a sailor’s view of the coastline, ...
Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)
Every year a network of scientists, experts and institutions across the world work with UN Environment to identify and analyze emerging issues that will have profound effects on our society, economy and environment. The ...
Gender and Environment Statistics: Unlocking Information for Action and Measuring the SDGs
(2019)
This report seeks to provide a framework to measure the nexus between gender and the environment. It proposes 18 gender-environment indicators for inclusion in the wider set of gender indicators, across the focal areas of ...
Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook
(2019)
The Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook provides an assessment of solid, liquid and gaseous waste generated in 58 Small Island Developing States. It also recommends a series of initiatives that can be ...
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)
This volume, Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Fisheries, addresses the potential implications for fisheries and societies of the regional impacts of a global warming of the atmosphere. Fisheries case studies were ...
Combating Global Climate Change by Combating Land Degradation: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya
(1995)
An International Workshop was held to consider land degradation in drylands and its management, particularly as it relates to carbon management as a means to combat global warming. Twenty specialists from nine countries ...
Coral Bleaching Futures: Downscaled Projections of Bleaching Conditions for the World’s Coral Reefs, Implications of Climate Policy and Management Responses
(2017)
The purpose of this report is threefold: 1. to present downscaled projections of coral bleaching conditions (i.e. exposure to the primary climate threat to coral reefs) at a spatial scale that enables use of the data in ...
Atlas of Africa Energy Resources
(2017)
This Atlas compiles and synthesizes regional and national information. It presents the scale and distribution of energy resources, production and consumption trends, as well as the existing potential for environmentally ...