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Last year, Australia joined the rest of the world by committing to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. To reach this goal we need to rapidly and drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Yet Australia’s fossil fuel emissions continue to rise and we lack a robust,…

The Global Gender Environment Outlook provides an overview of existing knowledge to generate insights and propose some answers to the following key policy-relevant questions: • What social forces are producing the changes seen in the environment, and are they gender dependent? • What are the large-scale consequences of ongoing ecological changes for social systems and human…

The Food Systems working group of the International Resource Panel has prepared a comprehensive scientific assessment of the current status and dynamics of natural resource use in food systems and their environmental impacts. The IRP identifies opportunities for Resource Smart Food Systems responding to policy-relevant questions like what do sustainable food systems look like from a natural…

This study identifies five key challenges of implementing the SDGs in developing countries: integrating the SDGs into national, sub-national and local-level development plans; establishing an institutional architecture that can deliver the development agenda; mobilising adequate financial and other resources; realising a “data revolution” with regard to monitoring and evaluation; and developing…

Some of the most important inland fisheries in the world are found in semi-arid regions. This circular documents the general resilience of many fish resources to climatic variability, with a focus on the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa; reviews the importance of fisheries and aquaculture to the livelihoods of drylands communities; discusses future threats to human resilience; and…

The objective of this map book is to provide a scientific and technical background to the EEA website’s maps (1). The explanatory texts accompanying the maps in the digital map book have been derived directly from the more elaborate fact sheets in this report. In 2012, the EEA published the report Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe - Challenges and opportunities for…