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EuropeAid, ILO and UNCTAD publication: “Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment”

Alba RIOBO SOUTO uploaded a new Document | 16 September 2013

sharedharvests.zip.zip 4.43 MB

The edited volume “Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment” is the outcome of a project financed under the EC Thematic Programme Investing in People “Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade and Employment”, managed jointly by the European Commission and the International Labour...

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Group: Public Group on Employment, VET and Social Protection
World Resources Report: Decision Making In A Changing Climate

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

world_resources_report_decision_making_in_a_changing_climate.pdf 11.84 MB

Release Date: 18 October 2011 This report identifies five critical elements that will significantly strengthen the ability of national governments to make effective adaptation decisions in a changing climate.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Report of the Study of the Economies of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Water and Wetlands

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

report_on_ecosystems_and_biodiversity.pdf 5.25 MB

Publication date: October 2012 This report by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) team says that the key role that rapidly diminishing wetlands play in supporting human life and biodiversity needs to be recognized and integrated into decision-making as a vital component of the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Science Policy Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Making Science Deliver Greater Impacts in Shared Water Systems

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

science_policy_bridges_over_troubled_waters.pdf 14.12 MB

Publication Date: September 2012 This report is a study of almost 200 major international water-related projects over the past 20 years. It was done as a collaboration between the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the largest public funder of projects to improve the global environment and promote...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Measuring glacier change in the Himalayas

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

glacial_melt_in_the_himalayas.pdf 2.21 MB

Publication Date: September 2012 This bulletin highlights the need for more reliable and consistent data about the state of Himalayan glaciers so that the contribution of glacial melt to the Himalayan river basins can be better understood. This is important because declining water availability...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

city_level_decoupling_report.pdf 30.21 MB

Publication Date: April 2013 Around three-quarters of the world's natural resources are already consumed in cities, and the proportion of the global population living in urban areas is set to rise to 70 per cent by 2050. At the same time, cities generally offer lower per capita resource use and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Green Hills, Blue Cities: An Ecosystems Approach to Water Resources Management for African Cities

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

green_hills_blue_cities.pdf 6.4 MB

Publication Date: 2011 Africa is currently the least urbanised region in the world, but this is changing fast. Of the billion people living on the African continent, about 40 per cent lives in urban areas. The urban population in Africa doubled from 205 million in 1990 to 400 million in 2010, and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
GEAS July 2013

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

fromhotspotstohopespots-connectinglocalchangestoglobalaudiences.pdf 880.08 KB

Publication Date: July 2013 This edition of the Global Environmental Alert Service explains how satellite imagery can tell stories about environmental change by providing visual evidence of both positive and negative large-scale local environmental change. UNEP's satellite imagery work and its...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Balancing economic development and protecting the cradle of mankind - Lake Turkana basin

James Morris updated the Document | 13 September 2013

balancing_economic_development_and_protecting_the_cradle_of_mankind_-_lake_turkana_basin.pdf 2.19 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 This paper calls for cooperation on Omo-Turkana transboundary water issues. A number of transboundary water agreements exist in Africa. However, many of these agreements are limited to larger basins such as the Nile, Niger, Senegal or Volta. There are very few...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Research Priorities on Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation: Responding to the Climate Change Challenge

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 12 September 2013

research_priorities.pdf 3.88 MB

Publication Date: 2013 This report provides information to guide climate change policy decisions and risk management. It identifies the greatest climate change vulnerabilities, explores climate adaptation policy challenges, and identifies research priorities for informed decision-making.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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