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The Pacific Environment and Climate Change Outlook Report 2012 clearly shows that the Pacific islands are increasingly being threatened in terms of food, water and livelihood...

This report reviews the literature published since the IPCC 4AR on the linkages between biodiversity and climate mitigation policies in order to highlight developments in our...

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is a four-year international scientific assessment of the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being. A multisectoral Board...

UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 14. Bamboos are distinct and fascinating plants, with a wide range of values and uses. They play a significant role in biodiversity conservation...

The inclusion of green policy objectives in Barbados can be traced to the National Strategic Plan (2006-2025) and the Budget Speech of 2007. The process was given further...

Solid waste management is an environmental priority for most islands in the Pacific. Unfortunately, lack of recycling and reduction initiatives, poor waste collection systems,...

The fifteen Cook Islands are distinguished by being vastly separated from each other and varying greatly in terms of their population numbers and resource endowments. The...

The Seychelles National Report to the RIO+20 Conference represents more than 20 years of commitment to sustainable development which has transformed Seychelles to status of...

The Republic of Seychelles is proud to present its third Millennium Development Goals Report. MDGs report indicates that Seychelles has achieved almost all the MDGs, especially...

Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment

RAPPORT NATIONAL DE GESTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT

On behalf of the CBD Executive Secretary, UNEP-WCMC has compiled and synthesized available scientific information on ocean fertilization and its observed and predicted impacts...

Les grandes orientations d’une politique de développement durable doivent reposer sur une connaissance approfondie et actualisée des données environnementales, mais aussi parce...

The Mediterranean Sea is complex in its ecology and its social dimensions. Twenty-one countries border the basin of this heavily used and highly valued sea. The Convention for...

French Polynesia comprises approximately 130 islands, including one hundred of which are atolls and thirty high islands somewhat larger. In fact, all these islands are very...

The report identifies and describes the major environmental challenges presently facing the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The document represents the first ever government...

UNEP-WCMC has provided technical support to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to conduct a major study of more than 300 scientific literatures to...

For several thousands of years humankind was freely using as well as exchanging biological and genetic resources around the world for betterment of life. This situation has now...

This report reviews the past and present status of natural resources and their uses and indicates what trends are occurring to determinc future resource uses and impacts of...

This State of the EnWonment Report provides a description of the environment covering elements of the Cook lslands' physical and biological features, and demographic and...