Greening the Blue Report 2016
The United Nations emitted 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent in 2015, according to the organization's annual report of its greenhouse gas emissions. The latest edition of the Greening
Nairobi
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Global green new deal: a policy brief
This policy brief calls for investment of 1% of global GDP in energy efficiency of buildings, renewable energy, sustainable transport, ecological infrastructure and sustainable agriculture.According to this, investing about US$750 billion of stimulus monies in the green economy could aid recovery from the economic downturn, create jobs, address poverty, promote achievement of MDG and fight climate
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Mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into development planning
This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning.
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Water security and ecosystem services: the critical connection
This document represents the collective expertise of a diverse group of individuals concerned with ecosystem degradation, and the continuing loss of the services provided by these ecosystems. Attention is given to aquatic ecosystems because of water`s fundamental role as the `blood` of ecosystem structure and functions, and an engine of economic production.
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UNEP year book 2009: new science and developments in our changing environment
The UNEP Year Book 2009 presents work in progress on scientific understanding of global environmental change, as well as foresight about possible issues on the horizon. The aim is to raise awareness of the interlinkages among environmental issues that can accelerate the rates of change and threaten human wellbeing.
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The environmental food crisis: the environment's role in averting future food crises
The current world food crisis is the result of the combined effects of competition for cropland from the growth in biofuels, low cereal stocks, high oil prices, speculation in food
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Methodologies guidelines: vulnerability assessment of freshwater resources to environmental change
This document aims to provide a general framework to partners under UNEP's project on "Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change".
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From conflict to peacebuilding: the role of natural resources and the environment
This report, which inaugurates a new policy series by UNEP on the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts, aims to summarize the latest knowledge and field experience on the linkages between environment, conflict and peacebuilding, and to demonstrate the need for those linkages to be addressed in a more coherent and systematic way by the UN, Member States and other stakeholders.
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Sustainable community management of urban water and sanitation schemes: a training manual
The aim of this capacity building programme is to improve the efficiency and positive impact of urban, community-managed water and sanitation schemes.
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Marine biofouling and invasive species: guidelines for prevention and management
An invasive alien species is one which has been introduced by human activity to a new geographic area or ecosystem outside of its natural distribution range, and which has then established and spread threatening ecosystems, habitats and/or other species, and potentially causing economic and/or environmental damage, or harm to human health.
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Desalination: resource and guidance manual for environmental impact assessments
The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial-scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s.