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This report accompanies the Buildings and Climate Change- Summary for Decision Makers. UNEP-SBCI has commissioned the compilation of regional reports that quantify the influence...

The Atlas of Rwanda's Changing Environment is a visual account of Rwanda's state of natural resources revealed through maps, current and historical satellite images, aerial and...

The impacts of "human-induced" climate change are now being observed in every aspect of life, and it is the most significant and far-reaching current environmental threat. In...

This report demonstrates and details CAREC’s national and regional programmatic and institutional ef-forts implemented as per the organization’s mandate. Intellectual, technical...

This monograph summarises the findings from the Adapt Cost project, which support the statement from the Tunis Roundtable. The project investigated and built evidence of the...

This is a summary of UNEP's work in 2001.

Whilst much of UNEP’s focus is at the national level – building environmental institutions, improving technical expertise, and developing environmental management tools (such as...

The purpose of this report is two-fold: firstly, to provide the Government of Afghanistan with a policy document that will be useful in guiding development of its future...

Addressing the serious issue of climate change requires substantial investment in new technologies, processes and services. This investment is not just desirable, it is...

The prime aim of this report is to identify the environmental stress points in the Amu Darya basin which have, or may have, security repercussions for the states and...

The Open Ocean Assessment provides a baseline review of issues linking human well-being with the status of the open ocean through the themes of governance, climate change, ocean...

Countries of the West Asia region have been experiencing different degrees of natural and anthropogenic water risk regarding the sustainability of their limited water resources...

Regional Seas Reports and Studies to provide advice relating to the scientific aspects of marine pollution , to prepare periodic reviews and identify problems.

The information contained in this report is extensive and covers a range of different topics describing the Island’s environmental health at the year 2000. Its purposes are to...

Vital Signs (VS) was designed to address this challenge by providing integrated, near real-time measurements of agriculture, ecosystem services, and human well-being. These...

This report focuses on BC (black carbon) because the Arctic Council Task Force on Short-Lived Climate Forcers (henceforth referred to as the Task Force) decided that, among the...

This report integrates findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessments related to current state and future trends of desertification and its impacts on ecosystems and human...

Lunion des Comores a pris part au plus haut niveaux, aux deux confrences internationales sur les petit Etats Insulaires en Dveloppement, tenues la Barbade en 1994 et Maurice en...

This information kit seeks to summarize in simple language the most up-to-date findings of the IPCC and the most recent developments under the Convention and Protocol.

This guide aims to provide an insight in to various questions about mainstreaming as well as provide a practical step-by-step framework on how to mainstream climate change into...