Business and the environment
- Women at the frontline of climate change: gender risks and hope
- ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2011)
- Women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing increasingly frequent droughts and floods which are having economic but also profound soc...
- Reducing Risk through Environment in Recovery Operations
- ( J. Stephens / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2009)
- Increasing attention is being paid to the importance attached to environmental issues in recovery operations and the new challenges climate change will pose to communities already vulnerable to natura...
- Towards a green economy: pathways to sustainable development and poverty eradication
- ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2011)
- The paper presents the importance and relevance of green economies. It describes a green economy as one which results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing envir...
- Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning: a guide for practitioners
- ( P. Dobie (ed);J. Horberry (ed);D. Smith (ed) / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2011)
- Climate change poses a risk to the development and achievement of Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). It affects livelihoods, health and economic development, yet efforts to mainstream climate change ...
- Technologies for climate change adaptation (coastal erosion and flooding)
- ( X. Zhu (ed);M. Linham;R. Nicholls / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2010)
- Coastal zones in many parts of the world are densely populated centres of critical economic activity. Sea level rise and more intense storms, waves, and surges due to climate change pose a serious thr...
- Technologies for climate change adaptation (agriculture sector)
- ( X. Zhu (ed);R. Clements;J. Haggar / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2011)
- The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastro...
- Protocols, treaties and action: the 'climate change process' through gender spectacles
- ( M. Skutsch / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2011)
- To what extent have gender considerations been taken into account in international climate change policy processes? They have been discussed little in climate change policy debates. In the case of the...
- Protecting the environment during armed conflict
- ( E.M. Mrema;C. Bruch;J. Diamond / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2009)
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This report seeks to identify gaps and weaknesses in the current international legal framework for protecting the environment during armed conflict. It aims to understand how natural resources...
- Rainwater harvesting: a lifeline for human well-being
- ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2009)
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The aim of this report is to compile a synthesis of experiences that can provide insight into the multiple opportunities rainwater harvesting can have when addressing human well-being, while contin...
- Genetically-modified crops
- ( N. Makoni;J. Mohamed-Katerere;M. Chenje / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2009)
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This paper explores the debates around Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and food security and the challenge for policymakers on how to respond to the uncertainty about the relative opportunitie...
