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  1. Ahead of World Water Day, UN Calls for Better Management of Water Resources

    The impacts of our increasingly stressed global water resources can be felt by almost everyone. Nairobi/New Delhi/Paris, 20 March 2015 - The planet is facing a 40 per cent shortfall in water supply by 2030, unless we dramatically improve the management of this precious resource. This is the...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 20 March 2015

  2. World Conference Adopts New International Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction After Marathon Negotiations

    First major agreement of the Post-2015 development agenda reached at landmark UN Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. One of the largest storms to ever make landfall, Haiyan affected some 9.5 million people in the Philippines and caused widespread destruction and displacement in November 2013...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 20 March 2015

  3. Project: Informs business investment against climate change risk

    Businesses must consider the true financial costs of climate change in order to better prepare for the future, according to the authors of a new climate change adaptation report prepared for one of the United Kingdom’s largest social housing providers. As part of an Innovate UK project led by the...
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  4. UNEP Launches Children’s Painting Competition under Theme of Sustainable Energy

    Nairobi, 13 March 2015 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched the 24 th edition of the annual children’s painting contest under the theme “ We have the power” to highlight renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions globally. Targeting young people between the ages of 9...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 16 March 2015

  5. Top Insurers Call for Urgent Action to Reduce Risk from Natural Disasters

    Sendai, Japan, 14 March 2015 – Top insurers from around the world have called on governments, Saturday, to step up global efforts to build resilience against natural disasters, highlighting that average economic losses from disasters in the last decade amounted to around US $190 billion annually,...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 16 March 2015

  7. UNEP supports first ever 'round-the-world' solar flight

    Abu Dhabi, March 9, 2015 - Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, 9 March launched the first-ever attempted flight around the world using only solar power as they simultaneously embark on a new partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "Solar Impulse brings...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 11 March 2015

  8. Pastoralism Provides Crucial Services to Humanity, Can Support Green Economy Transition

    Press releaseCancun, 9 March 2015 - Better Management of Neglected Sector Would Boost Water Regulation and Biodiversity and Sequester up to 9.8 per cent of Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions. Pastoralism—extensive livestock production in the rangelands—provides enormous benefits to humanity and should...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 10 March 2015

  9. From Villages to Nations, Africa's Success Stories Offer Lessons for Global Transition to Greener and More Inclusive Economies

    New study shows power of investing in a greener economy to boost GDP and life expectancy, create more and better jobs, and rapidly reduce poverty gap Cairo, Egypt, 5 March 2015 - Increasing Kenya's GDP by 12 per cent, raising Senegal's life expectancy rate by 1.3 years, and reducing Burkina Faso's...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 5 March 2015

  10. Costs of Climate Change Adaptation Expected to Rise Far beyond Africa’s Coping Capacity Even if Warming Kept Below 2°C

    Ambitious Cuts in Global Emissions, Increased and Innovative Adaptation Financing Needed to Spare Continent Worst Climate Change Impacts, Finds UNEP Report Cairo, 4 March 2015 – Africa, the continent with warming deviating most rapidly from "normal" conditions, could see climate change adaptation...
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    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information 4 March 2015