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drivers

Drivers

Demographic and economic developments in societies overall levels of consumption, and production pattern

pressures

Pressures

Pressures on the environment from human activities: they include the release of substances (GHG emissions), and the use of resources

states

States

Condition of the ecosystems: it gives a description of the quantity and quality of physical, biological and chemical phenomena

impacts

Impacts

The changes in the physical, chemical or biological state of the environment: health, resources availability, biodiversity loss

responses

Responses

Actions to prevent, compensate, ameliorate or adapt to changes in the state of the environment

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Conferences

  • UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (UNFCCC COP 27) 7-18 November 2022
  • UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021
  • COP26

News

  • AR6 Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change  (just released)
  • Humanity’s penchant to waste food is trashing the planet
  • Meet seven women saving the planet
  • Sustainable infrastructure can drive development and COVID-19 recovery: UNEP report

External Data & Platforms

  • The Carbon Benefits Project
  • Climate data | Resource Watch
  • Climate change | Copernicus
  • Climate knowledge portal | World Bank
  • Climate portal | NASA
  • United in sciences 2021

Solutions

  • Six sectors solutions | UNEP 
  • Summary of Solutions | Drawdown
  • Act Now | UN

Resources

  • Climate Visuals
  • The climate fresk

Publication

  • UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2022 (November 2022)
  • AR6 Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
  • AR6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
  • Resource Efficiency and Climate Change
  • Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

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