Environment and Climate Change
Ukreplenie potenciala vodnogo sotrudničestva v Vostočnoj Evrope, na Kavkaze i v Central'noj Azii
Capacity for Water Cooperation in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
Capacités pour la coopération dans le domaine de l’eau en Europe orientale, Caucase et Asie centrale
ECE Environmental Performance Reviews Series
Geneva Timber and Forest Discussion Papers
The objective of the Geneva Timber and Forest Discussion Papers is to make available to a wider audience work carried out usually by national experts in the course of UNECE/FAO activities.
Air Pollution Studies
Geneva Timber and Forest Study Papers
The Timber and Forest Study Papers encompasses sustainable forest management as well as the sound and legal use of forest products for raw material and energy and forest services. The objective is to assist member countries by: providing the best available information; facilitating policy dialogues and communication; and building capacity. The series is the product of a collaborative endeavour between the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Greening of Economic Growth Series
The conventional “grow first clean up later” approaches to economic growth are increasingly placing the futures of regional economies and societies at risk. The forward-thinking policymaker is tasked to promote development based on eco-efficient economic growth and at the same time record more inclusive gains in human welfare and socio-economic progress. In order to assist policymakers in responding to such challenges ESCAP’s “Greening of economic growth” series provides quick access to easy-to-read guidance to specific policy tools.
Our Planet
UNEPs quarterly magazine Our Planet features authoritative articles on the theme of environment and development by world scientific and political leaders. Each issue of Our Planet concentrates on one specific theme tying into international conferences meetings (the Commission on Sustainable Development) events (World Environment Day) or dealing with issues of our time (Water or Climate Change). Our Planet reports on international developments and action. It reviews current thinking suggests solutions and debates the key issues of environmentally sustainable development.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Trade and Environment Review
The Emissions Gap Report
This series assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with the emission levels permissible for the world to progress on a least-cost pathway to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. This difference between “where we are likely to be and where we need to be” is known as the ‘emissions gap’. Each new edition of the report explores some of the most important options available for countries to bridge the gap. These reports are prepared by an international team of leading scientists assessing all available information published in multiple scientific studies. The assessment methodology and preliminary findings are made available to the governments of the countries specifically mentioned in each report to provide them with the opportunity to comment on the findings.
Global Sustainable Development Report
The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries
The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries brings together data and indicators submitted by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) on stock status national catches fleet and socio-economic aspects as well as information obtained from other sources. The aim is to provide objective reliable and up-to-date information to a wide audience and support decision-making in fisheries. This series provides the most detailed assessment yet of the state of fishery resources in the region. New editions show current status of stocks including those most at risk from overfishing and looks at related issues like discards and incidental catches of vulnerable species.
Pakistn recupera su verdor
La provincia pakistaní de Khyber Pakhtunkhwa situada a unos 50 kilómetros de la capital Islamabad se ha cubierto de árboles estos últimos años. El paisaje se ha transformado al mismo tiempo que cambiaba la sociedad. La lucha contra el recalentamiento del clima y el combate contra la pobreza forman parte de la misma estrategia.
Keeping faith with nature
Three childhood experiences set me on the course to working to restore degraded land through helping to connect people to nature. My mother’s strong and unwavering faith helped me to appreciate that life was about more than what we could accumulate in the present and that we could trust a loving heavenly father for all our needs. The abuse of beautiful forests and mountain streams seemed to be an expression of greed and disregard for future generations. Watching news programs showing children just like me going hungry seemed mad in a world of plenty.
Gran angular: Filosofía y ética del cambio climático
La humanidad está en deuda. Año tras año consume más recursos de los que la naturaleza puede proporcionar. Este consumo excesivo tiene un efecto directo sobre el clima. Para comprender mejor la problemática en juego el biólogo y filósofo Bernard Feltz esclarece las complejas relaciones entre el hombre y la naturaleza al tiempo que se centra en los aspectos éticos de la gestión del cambio climático.
Nuestro invitado: Bakú, ciudad multicultural
Con una antigüedad de varios milenios la ciudad amurallada de Bakú capital de Azerbaiyán guarda huellas de la presencia de mazdeístas sasánidas árabes persas sirvaníes otomanos y rusos. La ciudad moderna nacida del primer boom del petróleo a fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX conserva un patrimonio cultural igualmente ecléctico. Gracias a su bahía y a la proximidad de las rutas de las caravanas Bakú siempre ha estado surcada por diversas corrientes. Esa característica la ha dotado de una diversidad a la vez armoniosa y excepcional que se refleja tanto en su arquitectura como en su espíritu cosmopolita.
Arshak Makichyan, piquetero solitario
Todos los viernes desde marzo de 2019 Arshak Makichyan ha manifestado solo en la plaza Pushkin de Moscú la capital de Rusia. En sus pancartas se leen consignas como “El calentamiento global es igual al hambre las guerras y la muerte”. Este joven violinista libra una batalla solitaria y tenaz en nombre de todo el planeta.
Making gold greener?
Poorly regulated gold mining is spreading around the world. Every day millions of artisanal and small-scale gold miners work extremely hard in often poor conditions and without the protective framework of formal labour market standards. By evening the vast majority have harvested only miniscule amounts of gold if anything at all. But the economic incentives are still attractive. Since ancient times gold has continuously been used as a source of long-term investment and it has now found its way into modern technologies and industry including computers cell phones and medical equipment. Global financial turmoil has helped more than double the price of an ounce of gold from $500 to well over $1000 over the past decade. Many poor people in rural areas have shifted their attention from agriculture to mining as a source of livelihood.
Matters of judgement
An independent judiciary in a political and legal system that values integrity and transparency is vital in addressing environmental degradation and in upholding the environmental rule of law worldwide. In an urban planning case at the National High Court of Brazil the court stated a view that I believe to be true in all areas of environmental law.