Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania in Africa, as well as India have the highest zoonotic disease burdens, with widespread illness and death finds this new global study mapping human-animal diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever.
This new book released by World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) on the sidelines of the Durban Climate Change Conference, focuses on the relationship between rural development and climate change mitigation and adaptation in the context of trees and agroforestry. It discusses the role of rewards for ecosystem services in improving livelihoods while enhancing carbon stocks.
The objective of the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles was to explore ways to engage, exemplify, enable and encourage people, civil society organizations and governments to further sustainability in people's everyday lives. Nine Task Force projects cover activities in 43 countries across every region of the world.
This report presents the findings of socio-economic baseline surveys carried out by the Eastern Africa office of Practical Action Consulting in Kenya between March and December 2008.
Climate neutrality means living in a way which produces no net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This should be achieved by reducing your own GHG emissions as much as possible and using carbon offsets to neutralize the remaining emissions.
This latest UNEP report systematically synthesises the close links between human well-being and ecosystem services through a number of rainwater harvesting cases. The cases are organised into thematic chapters addressing rainwater harvesting systems, their roles and their impacts.
Climate change is global in its causes and consequences. Through advanced modelling, patterns of change in the world climate have been observed over time. These model results have shown that compared to the pre-Industrial era, the world temperature has warmed by half a degree centigrade. The major causes for this
With more than half of the world
This study looks at the linkages between dams and climate change. It analyses the climate change legal regime as represented by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol and attempts to highlight the relevance of its provisions, decisions and processes to the planning, appraisal, design, construction, operation and
