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This report provides a broad overview of the landscape of climate change governance in Afghanistan in order to identify past achievements and current and future entry points for...

The ABC for Sustainable Cities aims to bring clarity on this. Rather than providing a single univocal definition of what is a “Sustainable City”, it brings together key elements...

Lecciones aprendidas y sistematización del proceso y aplicación del Indice de Vulnerabilidad ante Choques Climáticos en República Dominicana

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...

An especially severe and recurring natural disaster is the tropical cyclone particularly as affecting the land surrounding the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. A particularly...

This book covers the subject of climate change to the full extent possible, given current scientific knowledge. It is intended to assist and promote further international...

The overall goals of the climate change and security assessment are to identify and explain how climate change may exacerbate threats to security, and to propose effective...

The principal objectives of the Action Plan are to assist the Governments of the region in minimizing environmental problems in the Wider Caribbean through assessment of the...

The purpose of the report is to document and assess the current state of the marine en-vironment, and to identify the major global concerns and priorities for action in both the...

Data entry, modeling and graphical output for the Uganda case study have been carried out with the ARC/INFO Geographic Information System on a PRIME minicomputer. Most of the...

Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland. But the main...

The 2009 East Asian Seas State of the Marine Environment Report (EAS SOMER) presents current information regarding the present state of and outlook for the region’s marine and...

This document presents an overview of NGO activities in the seven subject areas selected for in-depth review at the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Programme's...

Trois objectifs clefs ont été identifiés pour cette évaluation : 1. Établir une connaissance scientifique détaillée de l’état de l’environnement, des tendances et des enjeux...

This booklet showcases adaptation solutions proven to be successful in response to specific issues caused, or accelerated by, climate change that negatively affect mountain...

This draft report is a component of the independent assessment of Montevideo IV, mandated by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and which is currently being...

This chapter focuses on the role and importance of natural capital in measuring the IW of nations. The analysis is based on the same data set used in Chapter 1: a 140-country...

Afghanistan is a country of dramatic landscapes, but life can be harsh for communities living in its remote mountain regions. Floods, landslides, avalanches, and droughts...

This report investigates the potential of nature-based solutions (NbS) to help build smart, sustainable and resilient cities. It draws from more than a decade of research and...

Unless urgent action is taken to build the resilience of Afghanistan’s households, communities, and environment, much of the country’s development gains over the past 15 years...