UNEP's North American region comprises Canada and the United States of America. UNEP RONA’s mission is to build support in the region for UNEP's work, to promote effective responses to international environmental challenges and to foster cooperation on environmental issues between North America and the broader international community. To achieve this mission, UNEP RONA’s strategy is to promote collaboration between UNEP and all sectors of North American society, including U.S. and Canadian governmental institutions, the private sector and civil society groups, and to provide UNEP with North American perspectives.
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- 21 Nov 2012
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Gap Widening as Nations Head
to Crucial Climate Talks in Doha
Keeping Average Global Temperature Rise to Below 2
Degrees C Still Do-Able With Potentially Big Cuts
Possible from Buildings, Transportation and Avoided
Deforestation--But Time Running Out
Current Pledges by Governments Indicate a 3-5 Degree C
Temperature Rise this Century without Fast Action
London
21 November 2012 - Action on climate change
needs to be scaled-up and accelerated without delay if
the world is to have a running chance of keeping a
global average temperature rise below 2 degrees C this
century. The Emissions Gap Report, coordinated by the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European
Climate Foundation -and released days before the
convening of the Climate Change Conference of the
Parties in Doha - shows that greenhouse gas emissions
levels are now around 14 per cent above where they
need to be in 2020.
More:
French Press Release
- 19 Nov 2012
Risks to Sovereign Bonds Posed by Overuse of Natural
Resources Need Greater Attention, says New Report
Natural Resource Risk Profiles Calculated for Five
Pilot Countries
London
/ Nairobi, 19 November 2012 – Some countries’
sovereign debt ratings may be less robust than many
investors may realize, if depletion of natural
resources are taken into account, a new report
released today suggests. Loss of soils, forests and
fisheries, as well as rising resource costs, are
likely to become increasingly important to a nation’s
economic health, and may affect its ability to repay
or refinance sovereign debt, says the study issued by
the United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance
Initiative (UNEP FI).
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