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Visual Feature | Status of Coral Reefs of the World
2024-03-10 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeUNEP has created a dynamic data visualization that distills the report findings with an aim to generating increased interest and awareness.
Tagged under: Media | Data | Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs
Global Resources Outlook press statement by UNEP Executive Director
2024-03-02 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeUNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen, speaks at the launch of Global Resources Outlook 2024, highlighting the urgent need to address the triple planetary crisis through sustainable resource management and circular economy models. She emphasizes the benefits of decoupling economic growth from resource use and environmental impacts. The report outlines actionable steps for achieving this goal, urging strong resolutions at the UNEA-6.
Tagged under: Economic Growth
Global annual finance flows of $7 trillion fueling climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises
2024-01-14 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeDubai, 9 December 2023 – Close to $7 trillion is invested globally each year in activities that have a direct negative impact on nature from both public and private sector sources - equivalent to roughly 7 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - according to the latest State of Finance for Nature report released today at COP28 by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners.
Tagged under: COP28 | Economic Growth | Finance
Emissions Gap Report 2023
2023-11-21 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeAs greenhouse gas emissions hit new highs, temperature records tumble and climate impacts intensify, the Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) finds that the world is heading for a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goals unless countries deliver more than they have promised. The report is the 14th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.
Tagged under: Net Zero | The Paris Agreement | Climate Change Mitigation
Production Gap Report 2021
2022-11-01 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeGovernments' planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits The Production Gap Report — first launched in 2019 — tracks the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global production levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C. The report represents a collaboration of several researchers and academic institutions, including input from more than 40 experts. UNEP staff provided guidance and insights from their experience leading other gap reports. This year’s report presents the first comprehensive update o...
Emissions Gap Report 2022
2022-10-28 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeAs growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. Only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Wind Power
In South Asia, record heat threatens future of farming
2022-06-13 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeUNEP projects are helping countries in Asia adapt and mitigate the impact of deadly heatwaves brought on by climate change.
Tagged under: Farming | Heatwaves | Climate Change
Emissions Gap Report 2021
2021-10-26 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeWith climate change intensifying and scientists warning that humanity is running out of time to limit global warming to 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels, 2021 has been a fraught year for the planet. The Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On is the 12th edition in an annual series that provides an overview of the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avert the worst impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Predictions | Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Change Impacts
Time to get serious about climate change. On a warming planet, no one is safe.
2021-08-09 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeStatement prepared for delivery at the press conference to launch the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group I contribution to the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change titled “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.”
Tagged under: Climate Change
Emissions Gap Report 2020
2021-03-06 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeThe 2020 report finds that the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century but a low-carbon pandemic recovery could reduce the worst impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Change Impacts
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