Plans for COP21 in Paris - December 2015. COP 21 Paris France Sustainable Innovation Forum 2015 working with UNEP. Event: UNFCCC COP 21. COP21 Paris Archives - La ONU y el cambio climático. WWAP. Water. Freshwater is the most important resource for mankind, cross-cutting all social, economic and environmental activities.
It is a condition for all life on our planet, an enabling or limiting factor for any social and technological development, a possible source of welfare or misery, cooperation or conflict. To achieve water security, we must protect vulnerable water systems, mitigate the impacts of water-related hazards such as floods and droughts, safeguard access to water functions and services and manage water resources in an integrated and equitable manner. UNESCO works to build the scientific knowledge base to help countries manage their water resources in a sustainable way through the International Hydrological Programme (IHP), through leading the UN-wide World Water Development Report, through the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft in the Netherlands, through over 20 affiliated research centres on water around the world and through a series of water-related Chairs. - The World's Water.
AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture. Website updates 20/12/2016 - Since 2015, a section on "Women and irrigation" is added when updating country profiles.
At present, already 53 out of the 147 country profiles available have such section included, which can be easily accessed through a dropdown menu from the "Water and gender" page. 30/11/2016 - Updated country profiles, maps and water and irrigation data are now available for an additional seven countries in Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and United Republic of Tanzania. 10/11/2016 - To provide a quick overview of global, continental and regional values of some key variables and indicators, four summary tables showing global, continental and regional data on population, water resources, water use and irrigation have been updated.
Mapping the World's Biodiversity. Biodiversity Heritage Library. CSS09-08.pdf. Global Initiatives. The world’s largest expanse of tropical rainforest – home to at least 10 per cent of the world’s known species and more than 30 million people – forms the focus of one of our ambitious initiatives.
WWF has already played a unique role in conserving the Amazon over the past 40 years, developing scientific knowledge, experience, and key partnerships with local,regional, and international players. We have invested more than US$30 million in conservation in the region since 2001 and are working with the government of Brazil and other partners on the Amazon Region Protected Areas Programme (ARPA), which has already helped create more than 20 million hectares of protected areas since 2002.
Building on this solid foundation, in 2007 we launched a ten-year Amazon Initiative to vastly scale up our efforts. Sufficient forest cover will also maintain regional rainfall and build resilience to climate change, ensuring a healthy Amazon that will continue to regulate both the regional and global climate. Al's Journal. Global Climate Change Center. Global climate change is a matter of intense concern and public importance.
There can be little doubt that human beings influence the world's climate. At the same time, our knowledge of the extent, progress, mechanisms and results of global climate change is still incomplete. New data are becoming available every day - from tree rings to deep sea samples, ice cores, glacial changes and climatological models - while the greatest minds all over the world are working to better understand climate change and its impact on life on earth. Scientific understanding emerges through full consideration of relevant data, appropriate debate and the application of the scientific method. Marc Gunther. Cambio Climático, Calentamiento Global, Efecto Invernadero. Noticias e información de actualidad. Medio Ambiente - Noticias de Ecologia y Medio Ambiente. Medio Ambiente en EL PAÍS. Medio Ambiente.
Agencia EFE - Clima , biodiversidad, medio ambiente. Cambio Climático. Environmental Governance - United Nations Environment Programme. United Nations Environment Programme environment for development Environmental Governance The new InforMEA learning platform is now live.
Start learning! Evidence. The Earth's climate has changed throughout history.
Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives. Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Sustainability blog. Bill Gates. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Naciones Unidas Departamento de Asuntos Económicos y Sociales.
THE ECONOMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY - Environment. Additional tools Human well-being is dependent upon "ecosystem services" provided by nature for free.
Such services include water provision, air purification, fisheries, timber production and nutrient cycling to name a few. These are predominantly public goods with no markets and no prices, so their loss often is not detected by our current economic incentive system and can thus continues unabated. A variety of pressures resulting from population growth, changing diets, urbanisation, climate change and many other factors is causing biodiversity to decline. Divisi n de Desarrollo Sostenible de las Naciones Unidas. Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente. Desarrollo Sostenible - La Iniciativa de la Carta de la Tierra. The International Society for Ecological Economics. Circular economy. Circular economy,events,new services,tools,zero waste A volunteer repair team assembled in South East Portland to offer free repairs of small appliances, bikes, jewelry, and clothing.
Repair PDX launched in May 2013 to “organize repair cafés – free events that bring volunteers who like to fix things together with people who have broken items that need fixing.” How WRAP supports a circular economy. Circle Economy. Resource Event 2015 : Welcome to the event. Green Economy 2.0. International Society for Industrial Ecology - Home. Home - Ellen MacArthur Foundation. McKinsey & Company.