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Blending Climate Finance through National Climate Funds
This guidebook is part of a series of manuals, guidebooks and toolkits that draws upon the experience and information generated by the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) support for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects in some 140 countries over the past decade. These resources are intended to enable project managers, UNDP Country O!ces and developing country government decision-makers to acquaint themselves with a variety of methodologies most appropriate to their development contexts in support of their transition to green, low-emission and climateresilient development.
Our Planet: Rio+20:
From Outcome to
ImplementationThe United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development.
Feed-in tariffs and a policy instrument for promoting renewable energies and green economies in developing countriesThis report is intended as a resource for policy makers in developing countries to make informed policy decisions about the whether,when and how of FITs and to support nationally appropriate policy measures to scale up renewable energy. The report is also intended to improve the understanding of the potential benefits and challenges for developing countries to design FITs as well as the factors influencing their success, more in depth from the policy and legal foci, whilst also analysing the fu ...
Moving Towards a Climate Neutral UN: The UN Systems Footprint and Efforts to Reduce It (2011 edition)The most recent analysis of the UN's performance in implementing the UN's Climate Neutral Strategy. The report includes the details of the greenhouse gas emissions for 54 entities in 2010, as well as a breakdown of emissions by activity. It also details progress in reducing emissions and plans for the future. The a Foreword by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and a Preface by the UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner, this report is the first and last word in the UN's sustainability performan ...
Ready, Willing
and Able: Empowering countries to meet the climate challengeUNEP's work on climate change is shaped by the UNFCCC talks and outcomes and helps countries to respond to their needs under the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol
Climate Action 2011Featuring expert analysis and opinion, Climate Action 2011 is an essential guide for businesses looking to reduce their carbon footprint and adapt to the impacts of climate change
Tunza Vol. 10.1: Sport
and the
environmentUNEP's magazine for youth.
Green Economy in a Blue WorldThe worldโs oceans and coasts - the Blue World - are the cornucopia for humanity. They provide us with food, oxygen and livelihoods.
The Business Case for the Green Economy: Sustainable Return on InvestmentEnvironmental stresses are increasingly affecting the financial bottom line of companies all over the world. It makes sense that as we switch to a more resource efficient and Green Economy - one in which economic growth, social equity and human development go hand-in-hand with environmental security - business and industry will be a key driving force. From corner stores, to medium-sized enterprises and international conglomerates, there needs to be an understanding that nature provides us with ...
Investing in a Climate
for Change: UNEPs Energy Finance Programme:
Scaling Up Clean Technology
InvestmentLaying the groundwork for clean technology investment, UNEPs energy finance activities aim at building skills, raising awareness and reducing investor risks, so that when the right stakeholders are brought together, financing happens.This brochure details UNEPs energy finance strategy: building sustainable markets by using public sector funds to attract private investment. Fourteen different UNEP energy finance projects, initiatives, and alliances are summarized in this booklet, covering end-us ...
The Fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5)In 1995, in support of UNEPs unique mandate within the UN system to keep under review the world environmental situation, (GA resolution 2997 of December 1972), the UNEP Governing Council requested a new, comprehensive report on the state of the world environment (Decision 18/27 C). The tool that UNEP employs to do this is the Global Environment Outlook or GEO. GEO is a process of conducting a global integrated environmental assessment that delivers the best available scientific findings to po ...
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