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A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings & Communities
This guidance note has been prepared because the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recognizes the key role buildings can play in enhancing climate change adaptation,... -
Virtual Event Series: The Asia Regional NDC Clinic - Session 2: Deploying...
As part of the Asia Regional NDC Clinic series led by UNEP and UDP under the NDC Action Project and in collaboration with the NDC Partnership, this 2-hour virtual session is... -
Emissions Gap Report 2018 - 27 November 2018, 16:00-17:30. Palais...
Launch Announcement of the Emissions Gap Report 2018 -
UNEP Reports 2021: a Summary
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Key Messages - Adaptation Gap Report 2021
2021 was the year in which climate change clearly manifested itself as a serious threat to humanity – not just in the long term, but in the here and now. Climate impacts hit the... -
The Gathering Storm - Adaptation Gap Report 2021 [Factsheet]
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Use of HFCs in Fire Protection Systems - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 18
The most widely used fire protection systems (FPS) involve water based systems such as automatic sprinklers. An important category of FPS are chemical agents that can quickly... -
GWP, CO2(e) and the Basket of HFCs - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 3
This fact sheet shows the importance of understanding how ‘tonnes CO2 equivalent’ is calculated and gives the GWP values for substances controlled under the Kigali Amendment. -
Twinning of National Ozone Officers and Energy Policymakers
Under the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP), UN Environment is implementing a two-year "twinning" project to build the capacity of National Ozone Officers and national... -
Phase-down Strategy: Impact of Gas Choices - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 19
In Kigali Fact Sheet 6 the development of a national HFC phase-down strategy is discussed. That Fact Sheet gives background information on the “core actions” that can be used to... -
OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 16: GWPs of Refrigerant Mixtures; Kigali Context
Many of the commonly used refrigerants are mixtures of several pure fluids. The Kigali Amendment controls the use of HFCs, including those used in refrigerant mixtures. This... -
Refrigerant Blends: Calculating Global Warming Potentials - OzonAction Fact Sheet
The number of single component refrigerants with different thermodynamic properties suitable for different types of equipment is limited. Growing demand for refrigeration and... -
Keep them Cool without Warming the Planet: Montreal Protocol - Kigali...
Kigali poster for World Ozone Day 2022 produced by the OzonAction CAP team in Latin America and the Caribbean -
Methane Emissions
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for more than 25 per cent of the warming we are experiencing today. Reducing methane emissions quickly is one of the most... -
Working with Plants, Soils and Water to Cool the Climate and Rehydrate...
This Brief enhances our understanding of the interwoven relationships and the subsequent fluxes of energy between plants, soils and water on the ground, as well as in and with... -
The shrinking Arctic Sea Ice - Foresight Brief No. 028 February 2022
The Arctic is a remote and sparsely inhabited area. It is connected to the rest of the world by our climate system, the atmosphere surrounding our Earth and by global ocean... -
From Data to Action: The International Methane Emissions Observatory as a...
To meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement to keep global warming well below 2° Celsius and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial... -
A Scientific Assessment of the Third Pole Environment - Executive Summary
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The Gathering Storm: Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World -...
AGR2021 provides an update on current actions and the emerging results of regional-level to national level adaptation planning, finance and implementation worldwide (figure... -
Understanding the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C
In 2015 governments adopted the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change (see below) and invited the IPCC to prepare a special report in 2018 to assess the impacts and related...