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This analytical report considers adaptation from the viewpoint of the finance sector. Climatic changes will accelerate if emissions continue on a “business-as-usual” trajectory. Among the effects could be more frequent, extreme weather events and droughts, rapid sea level rise from icecap melting, breakdown of the marine food chain and worst of all, feedback effects like large releases of methane from thawing permafrost, or large scale dieback of forests. These risks are real and the economic costs would be huge. The document describes some of the current products and services and other innovative approaches used by the finance sector to tackle climate change, such as weather derivatives and natural catastrophe bonds.

This guide provides a step-by-step method for the calculation of GHG emissions in order to give a single GHG Indicator for an organisation.

This manual includes a guide for governments, small and large organizations, businesses and individuals who want to embark on the path to climate neutrality. This concept – climate neutrality – is the subject of this book. True, there is a huge gulf between where we are now and the climate-neutral future that we need if we are to achieve sustainable development. But the message of this book is that the gulf is not uncrossable and that there is also a lot to gain. It will take patience, persistence and determination, but it can be done.

This analytical report uses current and historical satellite images to analyze the status of the environment in Africa. This Atlas provides scientific evidence of the impact that natural and human activities have had on the African continent’s environment over the past several decades. More importantly, this book contributes to the knowledge and understanding that are essential for adaptation and remediation.

This analytical report presents the financial perspective, or ‘dollar view’, of the current state of play in sustainable energy development. The analysis in this report consists of actual data on the different types of capital flows and their movement over time, combined with analysis of regional and sectoral trends. This information is intended to be a strategic tool for understanding the status of the clean energy sector’s development and for weighing future public and private commitments to the sector.

Using the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) methodology, this analytical report provides a complete and integrated assessment of the globally significant ecosystem of the Amazon Basin. The GEO Amazonia aims to provide a sound basis for policy makers at the national, subnational and local levels of the Amazonian countries in their efforts to ensure the long term sustainability of development initiatives.

This policy document presents UNEP’s past, present and future activities in the area of climate change and shows how the Programme is building partnerships with governments, civil society organizations, the private sector and other United Nations entities to foster a Green Economy.

The analytical report presents work in progress on the 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 well-being.

This analytical report summarises the outcomes of the 2001 Working Groups Three when it assessed the peer-reviewed expert literature on mitigation. The guide is not an official document. Instead, it represents an effort to make the hundreds of pages of detailed and technical text that constitute the volume on “Mitigation” more accessible to a broader
audience.

This training manual looks at climate change and its consequences on employment and trade union action. In addition, it addresses a clear gap and lack of knowledge of the environmental issues at stake regionally and globally in the trade union movement.

This manual consists of a handbook prepared to provide a solid introduction to negotiating or working on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) for those with little or no background, as well as a key reference tool for experienced negotiators. The document provides a reference tool that will enhance the capacity of those working on MEAs and involved in international negotiations.

This manual is designed to provide practical guidance and capacity building for climate change adaptation and mitigation practices in the tourism sector. In fact, the tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change. The spectacular growth of tourism provides both a challenge and an opportunity. The tourist community itself has responded to this challenge over the past few years and visibly stepped up its response to climate change.

This short story is aimed at sensitizing children to the importance of forest conservation and the promotion of tree planting. It is part of the Tunza Environmental Series for Children sponsored by UNEP that seeks to inspire caring for the Earth through creative literature that sparks the interest and awareness of children, their parents and teachers.

This activity report covers the achievements of the World food Program in 2006. It includes work undertaken in Kashmir after the Earthquake and in the Middle East during the Gaza crisis.

This analytical report covers the work that the WFP does in relation to climate change. This includes awareness raising as well as preparing for disasters. WFP is a frontline implementing agency that deals with complex humanitarian crises and has for decades fought hunger and destitution brought about by droughts; floods; degradation of natural resources; population pressure in fragile areas; weak physical, institutional and human capacity; and political conflict.

This activity report covers the World Food Programme (WFP) work to assist communities hit by disasters and to help them adapt to a changing climate. It addresses diverse areas such as food security, water conservation, and land management.

This press release summarises the conclusions reached by a group of key UN and non-UN aid agencies attending climate change talks in Bonn about the humanitarian impacts of climate change. The group called for the impact to be addressed in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen.

This video presents a statement pronounced by WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran during a presentation of the MERET project at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Director discusses the successful results in terms of climate change adaptation obtained through MERET in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Prime Minister Zenawi Meles publicly thanked WFP for its key role in making the project work.

This activity report contains remarks by WFP Executive Director at a CEB Consultation on climate change. He outlines the challenge for the World Food Programme to mitigate climate related risks for the world’s most vulnerable people and gives examples of adaptation measures the WFP is supporting in developing countries.

This video introduces the work of the WFP and its link with climate change. WFP sees the human face of climate change every day. For more than 40 years, WFP has been helping people whose lives depend on the vagaries of the weather. For these people, the accelerated changes in climate in recent decades have spelt misery, loss and more hunger.