This report by the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the UNEP Regional Seas Programme explores national and regional efforts to develop representative networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), and offers recommendations for strengthening the planning of such networks worldwide.
Climate change impacts are a clear and present danger to the Indian sub-continent. This report presents case studies from different parts of India, where local communities are under the assault of climate change. Calls for action that can help in long term mitigation and local level adaptation and ten broad areas of intervention have also been identified in the given national context.
The objectives of this study were: ?to examine the various issues associated with irrigation potential creation, irrigation potential utilization, gross irrigation and net irrigation including the definition, the reporting practices and consistencies in the data; ?to suggest procedures for collection of related data to be applied uniformly throughout the country; ?to identify clearly the irr
The clean development mechanism allows emission-reduction projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2. CERs can be traded and sold, and used by industrialized countries to meet a part of their targets under the Protocol. The CDM assists countries in achieving sustainable development and
Climate Change and Energy Security: Lessons Learned delivers some extremely valuable insights into the respective debates on both sides of the Atlantic. Joe Aldy, Camilla Bausch, and Michael Mehling shed light on the experiences Germany and the United States have had in these important issue areas over the course
This report describes the way co-inquirers are working together in the drylands of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to produce social and ecological knowledge for sustainability and equity. Their collective and empowering experience is vividly
captured in the videos which make up the Affirming Life and Diversity film series included in this report.
This study aims to broaden understanding of climate change and its impacts in Argentina. Most focus on climate change in Argentina has been in the north, where impacts are more
noticeable. But this study shows how changes in the south, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, are also likely to be significant.
