100% Renewable Energy - and Beyond - for Cities
Date: March 2010
Creator: Droege, Peter
Description: This booklet sketches out the options and the processes that have started to transform urban energy systems. The document promotes carbon neutrality for communities and cities and argues that even the largest cities can make this transition, drawing on renewable energy supplies from within their boundaries, as well as from farther away. In addition to assuring urban energy security, these developments can also stimulate the growth of a very large new green economy sector.
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United Nations Environment Programme 2009 Annual Report
Date: February 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Description: The 2009 UNEP annual report provides detailed information about various UNEP activities during the year of 2009, including analysis of the outcome of the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference. The report emphasizes the need to mobilize behind climate action in 2009 and to continue to ensure that environmental sustainability is recognized both as a legitmate goal in itself and as a means to achieving all other development objectives including the Millennium Development Goals.
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Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future
Date: May 2010
Creator: World Bank
Description: This report outlines the strategic direction of the energy sector to meet its growing energy demand in an environmentally-sustainable manner over the next two decades, and presents a pathway of policy frameworks and financing mechanisms to get there. This study found that large-scale deployment of energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies can simultaneously stabilize East Asia’s CO2 emissions by 2025 and significantly improve the local environment and enhance energy security, without compromising economic growth.
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Clearing the Waters: A focus on water quality solutions
Date: March 2010
Creator: Palanaippan, Meena
Description: This report discusses global water issues and offers a variety of proposals for countering the degradation of freshwater ecosystems for the benefit of public health and the environment.
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World Investment Report 2010: Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy
Date: July 22, 2010
Creator: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Description: According to the preface, this report focuses on climate change and the role of transnational corporations in investing in a low-carbon economy.
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Latin America and the Caribbean: Environment Outlook
Date: 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme. Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Description: This Global Environmental Outlook report (GEO LAC 3) is the third comprehensive environmental assessment of the status and perspectives of the environment in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It highlights the need to move away from sectoral, uncoordinated and short-term policies, and to work towards consolidating comprehensive and cross-sectoral environmental ones that put sustainability at the centre stage. GEO LAC 3 is part of UNEP’s contribution to catalyzing improvements to human well-being and framing a fresh debate around the concept of sustainability in the context of a world evolving from six billion, to nine billion people by 2050.
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UNEP in China: Building Back Better
Date: June 2010
Creator: Thakur, Reshmi
Description: This booklet describes the cleanup and redevelopment effort in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. A sustainable building design was included, which minimizes energy needs for cooling, heating, and lighting, is earthquake resistant, results in zero waste at the construction site, and is made with recycled materials.
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Africa Adaptation Programme: An insight into AAP and Country project Profiles
Date: January 2010
Creator: The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP)
Description: The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) has been designed to support the long-term efforts of targeted countries to further develop their capability to successfully identify, design and implement holistic adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes that are aligned with national development priorities. This report provides insight into the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) and its related country project profiles. The AAP has shifted into implementation, with Namibia and Tunisia as the first countries to complete national inception workshops. Eighteen out of the total twenty programme countries will complete national inception processes and start full-fledged implementation in the coming months.
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The Outcomes of Copenhagen: The Negotiations and the Accord
Date: February 2010
Creator: Averchenkova, Alina
Description: This document evaluates the Copenhagen climate talks, including the status of the negotiations on the key issues under the formal negotiating tracks and the provisions of the Copenhagen Accord, and draws implications for the implementation of actions in developing countries.
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UNEP Year Book 2010: New Science and Developments in Our Changing Environment
Date: 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Description: This publication presents an overview of global and regional environmental issues and policy decisions during 2010.
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