Institutional investors are becoming increasingly concerned that climate change poses a serious challenge to their investments. Despite growing evidence produced by climate science, global emissions continue to increase, and national and international policy responses remain inconsistent.

Protected Landscapes are a strong option for biodiversity conservation in human-influenced landscapes and seascapes. They often contain threatened or endemic species. There is now also a growing interest in the nature conservation benefits of protected landscapes. But do protected landscapes really protect wild biodiversity?

Papers presented at a conference held on 21 September 2011 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The symposium will serve as a platform to discuss the links between climate change, water stress, migration and conflict from a human security perspective.

Environment Matters, the annual review on the environment by the World Bank Group, usually highlights the environmental research, accomplishments, and challenges of the Bank’s regions in the past year.

Abstracting from the scientific understanding and technological advances achieved over the last few decades, and relying on a network of several scientific institutions, FAO has packaged a set of tools in this Irrigation and Drainage

Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty. In the past three decades alone, the rate of extreme global poverty has been halved, a remarkable trend that is expected to continue.

There is growing recognition that successful adaptation of agricultural production systems to changes in climate will depend upon the improved access to, and use of, genetic diversity.

This report sets out fundamental priorities for improving community-level water security as part of an integrated water supply, sanitation and hygiene approach.

A new publication by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Union of Railways (UIC) highlights the environmental sustainability of rail transport. The report – Railway Handbook 2012: Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions – includes the latest information from the UIC and IEA databases.

This report presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment (URA), for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities. It is intended to assist in decision making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs.

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