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GCOS, 152. Report of the Nineteenth Session of the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Steering Committee for GCOS
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2011
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme ; International Council for Science ; Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Published by: WMO ; 2011Collection(s) and Series: GCOS- No. 152
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copyTags: Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) ; Capacity development
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GCOS, 151. Report of the Seventh GCOS Cooperation Mechanism Board Meeting
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2011
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme ; International Council for Science ; Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Event: Seventh GCOS Cooperation Mechanism Board Meeting (19 September 2011; Reading, United Kingdom)
Published by: WMO ; 2011Collection(s) and Series: GCOS- No. 151
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) ; Capacity development
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Climate change in the South Caucasus: a virtual synthesis
ENVSEC, 2011This publication aims to communicate the known facts of climate change in a well illustrated, easily understandable manner, accessible to everyone. For this we could rely on the rich Caucasian tradition of geographic analysis, map making and visual arts.
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Available online: http://www.envsec.org/publications/climatechangesouthcaucasus.pdf
ZOI Environment ; Environment and Security ; United Nations Environment Programme ; United Nations Development Programme ; United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ; Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ; Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Published by: ENVSEC, ZOI Environment Network ; 2011This publication aims to communicate the known facts of climate change in a well illustrated, easily understandable manner, accessible to everyone. For this we could rely on the rich Caucasian tradition of geographic analysis, map making and visual arts.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill., charts, maps)Tags: Environment and landscape ; Climate change ; Climatic data ; Non-specialist public ; Georgia ; Armenia ; Azerbaijan ; Türkiye
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Ready, Willing and Able : empowering Countries to Meet the Climate Challenge
UNEP, 2011Meeting the climate challenge requires individuals and institutions to be able to assess and understand climate change, design and implement adequate policies and, most important of all, to take action on low-carbon and climateresilient growth. Capacity building is a country-driven process, enabling individuals, organizations, and societies at all levels, to unleash, strengthen, build, adapt and maintain their capacities to undertake climate action.
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Available online: https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/report/ready-willing-and-able-empowering [...]
Published by: UNEP ; 2011
Meeting the climate challenge requires individuals and institutions to be able to assess and understand climate change, design and implement adequate policies and, most important of all, to take action on low-carbon and climateresilient growth. Capacity building is a country-driven process, enabling individuals, organizations, and societies at all levels, to unleash, strengthen, build, adapt and maintain their capacities to undertake climate action.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill.)Tags: Capacity development ; Climate change ; Climate policies
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GORMP, 53. Report of the Eighth Meeting of the Ozone Research Managers of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
WMO, 2011
Report of the Eighth Meeting of the Ozone Research Managers of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme
Published by: WMO ; 2011Notes: More information can be found here.
Collection(s) and Series: GORMP- No. 53
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Observations ; Ozone ; Ozone layer ; Global Atmosphere Watch Programme (GAW)
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GCOS, 148. Summary Report and Recommendations from the Sixteenth Session of the GCOS/WCRP Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate (AOPC)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC); et al. - WMO, 2011 (WMO/TD-No. 1574)
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GCOS, 147. Summary Report of the Thirteenth Session of the GTOS/GCOS Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC): final report
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2011 (WMO/TD-No. 1573)
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Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - WMO, 2011 (WMO-No. 1073)Scientific evidence and new analyses demonstrate that control of black carbon particles and tropospheric ozone through rapid implementation of proven emission reduction measures would have immediate and multiple benefits for human well-being.Black carbon exists as particles in the atmosphere and is a major component of soot, it has significant human health and climate impacts.
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Space and Climate Change : use of space-based technologies in the United Nations system
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA); United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA); et al. - WMO, 2011 (WMO-No. 1081)This publication describes the three global observing systems, which are co-sponsored by several United Nations organizations and the International Council for Science (ICSU), in addition to efforts conducted by United Nations organizations targeting climate change and its impacts through the use of satellite observations.
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Global Drylands : a UN system-wide response
United Nations, 2011More than two billion people depend on the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. Preventing land degradation and supporting sustainable development in drylands has major implications for food security, climate change and human settlement. This report, issued at the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, sets out a shared strategy by UN agencies to rise to the challenge of addressing the special needs of these vital zones. Our focus is twofold: tackling the underlying causes of land degradation, and strengthening the capacity of dryland populations ...
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Climate Change Starter’s Guidebook : an issues guide for education planners and practitionners
UNESCO, 2011Aimed towards education planners and practitioners, the Guidebook is intended to provide support in developing the understanding of the science of climate change, observed and anticipated impacts, and possible responses. The Guidebook also covers the impacts on society, including poverty, health, migration, gender and ethics. It includes a section on responding to climate change, focusing on mitigation and adaptation, as well as international responses. The Guidebook continues by discussing education for climate change, touching on education for adaptation, mitigation, sustainable development ...
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Advancing adaptation through climate information services : results of a global survey on the information requirements of the financial sector
UNEP FI, 2011Financial institutions need more developed information services regarding the physical impacts of changing weather patterns. The survey showed that with the risks of climate change expected to increase, financial service providers need enhanced access and availability of climate information to further enhance related risk management within their industry. The influence of these financial institutions worldwide could in this way play a key role in accelerating the implementation of adaptation measures by the private sector more broadly. The report, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Ed ...
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Environment and security in the AMU Darya Basin
UNEP, 2011The report highlights water, agriculture, energy and climate change issues in Central Asia’s Amu Darya River Basin.
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UNDP - Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals and Toolkits, 9. Catalyzing Climate Finance : a Guidebook on Policy and Financing Options to Support Green, Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development
UNDP, 2011This guidebook is offered as a primer to countries to enable them to better assess the level and nature of assistance they will require to catalyze climate capital based on their unique set of national, regional and local circumstances.
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GCOS, 149. Report of the Third GCOS Reference Upper Air Network Implementation and Coordination Meeting (GRUAN ICM-3)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2011 (WMO/TD-No. 1575)
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Environmental consequences of ocean acidification : a threat to food security
UNEP, 2010Launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the report confirms concerns that some organisms, such as corals and shellfish may find it increasingly difficult to form their skeletons in the decades to come making it harder to survive let alone thrive. It also shows that ocean acidification can react together with ocean warming so that animals such as crabs have a reduced range of temperatures they can thrive in.
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The Emissions Gap Report : are the Copenhagen Accord Pledges Sufficient to Limit Global Warming to 2° C or 1.5° C? A preliminary assessment
UNEP, 2010Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges but also an inordinate opportunity to catalyze a transition to a low-carbon, resource efficient Green Economy.
This report informs governments and the wider community on how far a response to climate change has progressed over the past 12 months, and thus how far the world is on track to meet wider goals,.
The pledges associated with the Copenhagen Accord of 2009 are the point of departure for this report. What might be achieved in terms of limiting a global temperature rise to 2ºC or less in the 21st centur ...
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GCOS, 142. Report from the Fourth Meeting of the WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel (WOAP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2010
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GCOS, 146. Report of the Sixth GCOS Cooperation Mechanism Board Meeting
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2010
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WCRP Informal/Series Report, 5/2010. Report from the Fourth Meeting of the WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel (WOAP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2010
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GCOS, 145. Report of the Eighteenth Session of the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Steering Committee for GCOS
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) - WMO, 2010 (WMO/TD-No. 1563)
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GCOS, 144. Guide to the GCOS Surface Network (GSN) and GCOS Upper-Air Network (GUAN) : (2010 Update of GCOS-73)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2010 (WMO/TD-No. 1558)
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GCOS, 143. Guideline for the Generation of Datasets and Products Meeting GCOS Requirements*
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2010 (WMO/TD-No. 1530)This guideline is intended to help all producers of climate-relevant datasets (e.g., meteorological services, research institutions, oceanographic centres, environmental agencies, space agencies, universities) in the way they document, assess the quality of, and publicize their work related to the generation, processing and analysis of climate datasets and derived products (i.e. Fundamental Climate Data Records (FCDRs)2 and Essential Climate Variable products (ECV, cf. Annex I)), based on observations from surface-based, airborne and satellite-based instruments.
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GCOS, 141. Summary Report of the Twelfth Session of the GTOS/GCOS Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC): final report
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2010 (WMO/TD-No. 1528)
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Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010
GRID Arendal, 2010A component of the comprehensive Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) of the Arctic Council, this report provides a snapshot of the trends being observed in Arctic biodiversity today. Twenty-two indicators examine the current state of the environment. Issues include sea birds, fisheries, climate change, polar bears and traditional knowledge.
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