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Bangkok assessment report on climate change

This report attempts to explain why and how climate change is affecting Bangkok, while giving some idea of the likely trends that may be expected and what action will have to be...

The Natural Fix? The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation: A UNEP Rapid...

This rapid assessment report describes the vital contributions which ecosystems can and must make to improve these efforts. It presents carbon capture and storage through a...

Black Carbon Mitigation and the Role of the Global Environment Facility: A...

Black carbon (BC) is formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass. It is the most strongly light-absorbing component of fine particulate matter, and a local...

GESAMP: Atmospheric Transport of Contaminants into the Mediterranean Region...

At the request of the contracting parties of the convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution, the WMO led GESAMP working group on the Interchange of...

Energy Efficiency Market Report

The Energy Efficiency Market Report 2014 (EEMR 2014) estimates that investment in energy efficiency markets worldwide in 2012 was between USD 310 billion and USD 360 billion....

Energy, Climate Change and Environment

This publication, Energy, Climate Change and Environment: 2014 Insights complements IEA modelling work such as the World Energy Outlook and Energy Technology Perspectives by...

Common carbon metric for measuring energy use and reporting greenhouse gas...

Leading experts from around the world have, through extensive international cooperation, developed a universal method of measuring a building's carbon footprint. Supported by...

Climate Change - United Nations Environment Programme

Factsheets in this series: Climate change, Resource efficiency, Disasters and conflicts, Environmental governance, Harmful substances and hazardous waste, Ecosystem management.

Plastic pollutions emissions from main rivers in the Mediterranean

Rivers are a major source of plastic waste in the oceans. This model (Mejier et al., 2021) approach includes geographically distributed data on plastic waste, land use, wind,...

Global N2O emissions in tonnes/px/year - EDGAR v6.0 (1970 - 2018, Animation)

EDGARv6.0 provides emissions of the three main greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and fluorinated gases (coming soon) per sector and country. An animation of the 1970-2018 period...

Global CO2 bio emissions in tonnes/px/year - EDGAR v6.0 (1970 - 2018, Animation)

EDGARv6.0 provides emissions of the three main greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and fluorinated gases (coming soon) per sector and country. An animation of the 1970-2018 period...

Global CH4 emissions in tonnes/px/year - EDGAR v6.0 (1970 - 2018, Animation)

EDGARv6.0 provides emissions of the three main greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and fluorinated gases (coming soon) per sector and country. An animation of the 1970-2018 period...

Global CO2 fossil emissions in tonnes/px/year - EDGAR v6.0 (1970 - 2018, Animation)

EDGARv6.0 provides emissions of the three main greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and fluorinated gases (coming soon) per sector and country. An animation of the 1970-2018 period...