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NEW: FABIO's BLOG
22nd December 2011

Fabio reports on the different ways indigenous people and incomers farm in Ecuador's Amazonia.

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OUR PLANET
The latest issue of Our Planet is out. It is themed around combating climate change and the transition to the Green Economy.

Action to combat climate change and the transition to a Green Economy are happening literally everywhere. The challenge for Durban and for Rio+20 was to find ways of scaling-up and accelerating what is already underway – and of decoupling economic growth from resource use – while learning to recognize that addressing global warming and general environmental change is as much an opportunity as a challenge and can refocus and realize social progress for the many, not just the few. more...

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Where we stand

The decisions of the Conferences of the Parties. s The texts – what was actually achieved
2009 COP15 The Copenhagen Accord
2010 COP16 The Cancun Decisions

UNEP-WCMC
BIODIVERSITY SERIES

Reports on current thinking on various biodiversity issues, from mountain areas to coldwater corals, and bamboos to carbon and biodiversity. more...

ENVIRONMENT ON THE EDGE

International figures examine our current relationship with the natural world and discuss what tomorrow might bring. more...

TUNZA THE ROAD TO RIO+20:The environmental issues facing us are planetary in scope, so we need to think and act on a planetary scale. Young people grew up with the net and social media which know no boundaries, they understand them and, because of them, many young people already think as planetary citizens. As we wrestle with the economic crisis, the discussions are largely about the short term rather than our reliance on fossil fuels, our diminishing resources and overconsumption, which are building up massive environmental debts. Youth can help change that. . more ...

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CLIMATE ADAPTATION

LIVING WITH CHANGE: adaptation and innovation in Ladakh

Ladakh provides a case study for exploring the ways in which adaptation to environmental change is taking place at a community scale, both through the implementation of technologies adapted to suit extreme and changing conditions and through decision making by adaptive and resilient communities. more...

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For a Living Planet

WWF, the world's best known conservation organization, celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2011. Learn more about its achievements and concerns both for today and tomorrow. more...

The energy report
100% renewable energy by 2050

Such a transition is not only possible but cost-effective, producing energy that is affordable for all in ways that are sustainable. more...

UNEP
YEAR BOOK
2011

An update on new science and developments that brings emerging environmental issues into focus. more...

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
The Ecological Footprint shows that our demand for resources has more than doubled since 1961 and the Living Planet index demonstrates what that is doing the Earth's biodiversity. more...

Crafting geoinformation:
the art and science of Earth observation

takes you behind the scenes to see how environmental data is gathered, processed, integrated and transformed into information for decision making. more...

AAAS ATLAS OF POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT
“If a picture is worth a thousand words this presentation of the
environmental impact of human activity is worth at least a million."
The Ecologist more...

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