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Mapping to Support Land-use Planning for REDD+ in Kenya: Securing Additional Benefits
Pressure to convert and degrade forests continues to be high in developing nations such as Kenya, resulting in substantial emissions of carbon dioxide. Through the United... -
Desertification Control in Africa: Actions and Directory of Institutions Volume I
One of the programme objectives of the UNEP Desertification Control Programme Activity Centre since its establishment as the Desertification Branch in early 1978 has been to... -
Greenhouse Earth
This book is an attempt to capture the messages in the reports from SCOPE and IPCC as well as some other information and in a way that is accessible to the non-expert reader.... -
The World Environment 1972-1992: Two Decades of Challenge
The World Environment 1972-1992 offers a look at the environment from three perspectives. Ten introductory chapters detail the range of environmental threats and examine how... -
Pachamama: Our Earth, Our Future
This book is a perfect introduction for young people to the environmental challenges that await us in the 21st century. Based on the United Nations Environment Programme's... -
Launch of the Earth Science Cafes - 50th Anniversary of Earth Day 22nd April 2020
The Network of Africa Women Environmentalists (NAWE) is launching a new initiative called the Earth Science Cafes as an online conference event on the fiftieth (50th)... -
Plant Growth Declined Over the Past Decade - UNEP Global Environmental Alert...
Calculating Net Primary Production (NPP) is the first step in quantifying the amount of carbon plants fix from the atmosphere and accumulate as biomass. NPP is an important... -
Wildland Fires, a Double Impact on the Planet - Environment Alert Bulletin 3
Wildland fires annually burn an area half the size of Australia and generate nearly 40% of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2). Their impact in terms of deforestation,... -
Only Scraps of the South American Atlantic Forest Remain—Eastern Paraguay -...
Prior to the mid-20th century, an extensive subtropical rain forest covered much of the Brazilian coastal plain, eastern Paraguay and part of northern Argentina. The forest... -
Amazonian Deforestation Slowing but May Already be at a Tipping Point Mato...
At the beginning of the 20th century, roughly 80 percent of the 5 million km2 "Legal Amazon" region of Brazil was forested (Kirby and others 2006). Highways built in the 1950s... -
Programme Performance Report: January 2020 to December 2021
This report presents UNEP’s achievements during the two years of the 2020-2021 Programme of Work (PoW) under the seven subprogrammes: Climate Change, Resilience to Disasters and... -
Programme Performance Report 2018-2019
The health of our planet and humanity’s future are inseparable. Around half of global GDP depends on nature, but increased human and economic activity is putting natural... -
UNEP Programme Performance Report 2016
UN Environment this year commemorates 45 years of its existence with a track record in leading efforts to protect our environment. Established in December 1972 as a follow up to... -
Environmental Marker Tip Sheet: Sudan
These tip sheets aims to give guidance to the following sectors in Sudan regarding how to better integrate environment in their humanitarian activities: Education, Food Security... -
Deforestation [Factsheet]
Forests and woodlands are important stores of planet-warming carbon dioxide, soaking up 30 per cent of emissions from industry and fossil fuels. But every year, the world loses... -
Greening Economies in the EU’s Eastern Partnership Countries - Armenia
Greening economies is important because the current models of growth continue to erode the stocks of natural assets and undermine the integrity of ecosystem services on which... -
Nature for Climate Action [Factsheet]
Conserving and restoring natural spaces, both on land and in the water, is essential for limiting carbon emissions and adapting to an already changing climate. Conserving and... -
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Taking Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and its Impact - SDG13 Issue Brief
Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13) – to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact is one of gravest existential threats facing our collective, sustainable... -
Investing in Forests to Build Back Better & Greener: How Forests Can...
The world’s forests act as shields, keeping humans safe from zoonotic diseases, such as coronaviruses. Their destruction can have devastating consequences for global public...