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The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment: Synthesis for Policy Makers
(2011)
UNEP’s post-conflict environmental assessment aims to provide a better understanding of the underlying challenges facing the DRC and to help identify and develop promising opportunities to support sustainable economic ...
The Emissions Gap Report 2017 - Executive Summary
(2017)
The eighth UN Environment Emissions Gap Report provides an up-to-date scientific assessment of the global progress towards the emissions reductions required to be on track to meet the long-term goal of the United Nations ...
The Adaptation Gap Report 2017: Towards Global Assessment - Executive Summary
(2017)
The report explores key opportunities and challenges associated with assessing progress on adaptation at the global level. The report synthesizes information relevant for the ongoing work under the United Nations Framework ...
Climate Change 1995 : Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
(1995)
This Summary for Policymakers provides an overview of the Working Group's full report. It reviews the developments in our scientific understanding since the first IPCC assessments of impacts and response options in 1990, ...
Livelihood security: Climate Change, Conflict and Migration in the Sahel - Executive summary
(2011-12)
The Sahelian countries (CILSS) are among the poorest countries in the world with the most degraded environments. They are also among the countries that are the most vulnerable to the estimated effects of climate change. ...
South Sudan: First State of Environment and Outlook Report 2018 - Summary for Policymakers
(2018)
One of the top priorities of the Government of South Sudan is to develop and implement sustainable management plans in the sub-sectors of the environment sector, so that the exploitation of natural resources does not ...
Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary of the Working Group I Report
(1995)
This document comprises both the Summary for Policymakers and the Technical Summary of the Working Group I (WGI) report. It represents, in conjunction with the 11 chapters of the underlying WGI report from which this ...
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis; Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of
the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and ...
Understanding the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C
(2018)
In 2015 governments adopted the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change (see below) and invited the IPCC to prepare a special report in 2018 to assess the impacts and related pathways of warming of 1.5ºC. This brief ...