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100% Renewable Energy - and Beyond - for Cities
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.
Date:
March 2010
Creator:
Droege, Peter
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Environment Programme 2009 Annual Report
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.
Date:
February 2010
Creator:
United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future
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.
Date:
May 2010
Creator:
World Bank
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Outcomes of Copenhagen: The Negotiations and the Accord
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.
Date:
February 2010
Creator:
Averchenkova, Alina
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Africa Adaptation Programme: An insight into AAP and Country project Profiles
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.
Date:
January 2010
Creator:
The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
UNEP in China: Building Back Better
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.
Date:
June 2010
Creator:
Thakur, Reshmi & Potocnik, Matija
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Our Planet, May 2010
Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to the economic importance of biodiversity and how protecting or restoring habitats can significantly reduce the costs in a variety of industries and infrastructures.
Date:
May 2010
Creator:
United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Renewables 2010: Global Status Report
This report describes economic trends in building the capacity of renewable energy in several countries.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Framing the Flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect, and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats
This report presents a framework for understanding the connection between a variety of marine ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reefs, across several contexts with policy recommendations for land use and management.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Silvestri, Silvia & Kershaw, Francine
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Finacning
This report shows that in spite of the global economic downturn, investment in sustainable energy is still strong.
Date:
2010
Creator:
United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Environment Outlook
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.
Date:
2010
Creator:
United Nations Environment Programme. Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Last Stand of the Gorilla: Environmental Crime and Conflict in the Congo Basin
This report discusses the status of gorillas in the Greater Congo River Basin. The report looks at challenges such as poaching and habitat loss.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Nelleman, Christian; Redmond, Ian & Refisch, Johannes
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Polls on the Environment and Global Warming
This report is a meta-analysis of twenty years of public opinion polls about Americans views on environmental quality, environmental policy, and environmental science.
Date:
April 2010
Creator:
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change
This report identifies areas of research for understanding the impact of climate change on human health. Research areas include respiratory, cardiovascular, and mental health, as well as infectious diseases, nutrition, and others.
Date:
April 22, 2010
Creator:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development
This report discusses some vital services that natural ecosystems contribute to human health and development.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Nelleman, Christian & Corcoran, Emily
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in Developing Countries
In this position paper, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urges Parties to reach an agreement on a REDD-plus (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism that recognizes that avoiding greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation is a necessary component of achieving deep cuts.
Date:
June 2010
Creator:
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
World Investment Report 2010: Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy
According to the preface, this report focuses on climate change and the role of transnational corporations in investing in a low-carbon economy.
Date:
July 22, 2010
Creator:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Clearing the Waters: A focus on water quality solutions
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.
Date:
March 2010
Creator:
Palanaippan, Meena; Gleick, Peter H.; Allen, Lucy; Cohen, Michael J.; Christian-Smith, Juliet; Smith, Courtney et al.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Psychology and Global Climate Change: addressing a mutifaceted phenomenon and set of challenges
This report examines the role of the field of psychology in understanding and dealing with global climate change. The report explores the psychological drivers for contributing to climate change and the psychological barriers to action in response to the threat of climate change. The report makes policy recommendations based on its findings.
Date:
March 2010
Creator:
American Psychological Association. Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
UNEP Year Book 2010: New Science and Developments in Our Changing Environment
This publication presents an overview of global and regional environmental issues and policy decisions during 2010.
Date:
2010
Creator:
United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 8, Number 1, 2010
Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to biodiversity and threatened habitats.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 4, 2010
Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to the Copenhagen Summit, the Vancouver Olympics, and indigenous peoples from arctic regions.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Our Planet, February 2010
Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to programs in several countries that are investing in a "green economy" in order to ensure the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources.
Date:
February 2010
Creator:
United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Climate Action Report 2010
The Fifth U.S. Climate Action Report presents a detailed outline of the actions the U.S. is taking to address climate change, contains updated projections on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and underscores the United States commitment to address climate change.
Date:
June 2010
Creator:
U.S. Department of State
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library