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| United Nations Environment Programme |
| Established in 1972, works to encourage sustainable development through sound environmental practices everywhere. Its activities cover a wide range of issues, from atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems, the promotion of environmental science and information, to an early warning and emergency response capacity to deal with environmental disasters and emergencies. |
| Website: www.unep.org |
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| The materiality of climate change - How finance copes with the ticking clock |
| Stock Code DTI/1205/GE, UNEP 2009 Paperback 133 Pages Price USD 20.00 |
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The third iteration of the UNEP FI Asset Management Working Group’s ground-breaking “Materiality Series,” which started in 2004 with “The Materiality of Social, Environmental and Corporate Governance Issues to Equity Pricing” and followed in 2006 by “Show Me The Money: Linking Environmental, Social and Governance Issues to Company Value”, exclusively tackles climate change. |
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| Plant for the Planet : The Billion Tree Campaign |
| Stock Code DCP/1025/NA, UNEP 2008 Paperback 80 Pages Price USD 15.00 |
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This publication can introduce but a fraction of the energy and results inspired by the Campaign. It is intended to convey the range of partners moved to action: from children to giant corporations, from womens groups to technocrats, dancers to diplomats, farmers to national governments. Trees are more significant than many of us might imagine. They commemorate births and lives lived. They beautify slums, farms and grand avenues. They provide shade, oxygen, and delight. They cool the Earth. |
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| In Dead Water |
| Stock Code 3718, UNEP 2008 Paperback 62 pages Price USD 10.00 |
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The new rapid response report entitled In Dead Water has for the first time mapped the multiple and combined impacts of pollution; alien infestations; over-exploitation and climate change on the seas and oceans. The worst concentration of the cumulative impacts of climate change coastal development and pollution appear to be concentrated in 10-15 per cent of the oceans concurrent with today’s most important fishing grounds. |
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| The UNEP YEAR BOOK 2008 (Formerly called GEO Year Book) |
| Stock Code DEW/1006/NA, UNEP 2008 Paperback 60 pages Price USD 10.00 |
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The UNEP Year Book 2008 (formerly the GEO Year Book) is the fifth annual report on the changing environment produced by the United Nations Environment Programme in collaboration with many world environmental experts. The UNEP Year Book 2008 highlights the increasing complexity and interconnections of climate change, ecosystem integrity, human well-being, and economic development. |
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| Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector Frameworks, Tools and Practices |
| Stock Code DTI/1047/PA, UNEP 2008 Paperback 136 pages Price USD 40.00 |
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With its close connections to the environment and climate itself, tourism is considered to be a vulnerable and highly climate-sensitive economic sector, similar to agriculture, insurance, energy and transportation. At the same time, tourism is a contributor to Greenhouse Gas (GHG emissions, including emissions from transport, accomodation and activities. In 2005, tourism's contribution to GHG emissions was estimated to be approximately 5% . In response to this challenge this publication is designed to provide a provide pragmatic platform to strengthen the capacity of professionals to understand and respond effectively to the global challenges of climate change in tourism destinations. |
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| Africa : Atlas of Our Changing Environment |
| Stock Code DEW/1000/NA, UNEP 2008 Hardback 374 pages Price USD 150.00 |
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Increasing concern as to how human activities impact Africa’s environment has led to documentation and quantification of the changes taking place. Through a combination of ground photographs, current and historical satellite images, and narrative based on extensive scientific evidence, this publication illustrates how humans have altered their surroundings and continue to make observable and measurable changes to Africa and its environment. |
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| Afrique : Atlas d'un environnement en mutation ( Africa : Atlas of Our Changing Environment ) |
| Stock Code DEW/1030/NA, UNEP 2008 Hardback 374 pages Price USD 150.00 |
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Increasing concern as to how human activities impact Africa’s environment has led to documentation and quantification of the changes taking place. Through a combination of ground photographs, current and historical satellite images, and narrative based on extensive scientific evidence, this publication illustrates how humans have altered their surroundings and continue to make observable and measurable changes to Africa and its environment. |
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| Carpathians Environment Outlook 2007 |
| Stock Code DEW/0999/GE, UNEP 2008 Paperback 232 Pages Price USD 30.00 |
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The "Carpathians Environment Outlook" (KEO) project was initiated in early 2004 by UNEP's Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)/GRID-Geneva and the Regional Office for Europe (ROE). The KEO report is a sub-regional examination and synthesis of the environmental situation in the greater Carpathian region, that includes parts of seven countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, the Slovak Republic and Ukraine). KEO is being carried out in a "bottom-up", collaborative and consultative style, similar to its parent products, UNEP's Global Environment Outlook (GEO) assessments at the global level. |
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