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United Nations
Environment Programme
environment for development
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Ecosystem Management Videos
 Millenium Ecosytem Assessment - Ecosystem Services
The short clips have been designed for practitioners to use in their work to explain the basics and give examples of what ecosystem services are and what are the consequences of the fact that they ar
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 Africa Water Atlas
Africa Water Resources Atlas: challenges and opportunities - combines visual time series imagery to visually show how climate change threatens the fresh water resources on the African continent. Usin
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 Baby Legacy
Named by UNEP to mark the launch of of the WED Legacy Project Last year, the eyes of the world were on Rwanda as it hosted World Environment Day. As part of the event, the WED Global Community was
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 Baby Waka Waka
Named by kids around the world and announced by UNEP Climate Hero, Luo Hong
 Baby Zoya
Named by people around the world and announced by Goodwill Ambassador, Don Cheadle
- Iraqi Marshlands: On the road to recovery
The Iraqi Marshlands considered by some as the original biblical "Garden of Eden" and an ecosystem of global importance had been almost entirely destroyed by the time the former Iraqi regime collapsed in 2003. The UNEP project, "Support for Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands", is helping the Iraqi people to restore the marshlands and manage them in a sustainable manner, as well as providing safe drinking water and sanitation systems to marshlands communities lacking access to these basic necessities.
- Cloud Forests
Tropical montane cloud forests are a rare type of evergreen mountain forest found in tropical areas where local climatic conditions cause cloud and mist to be regularly in contact with the forest vegetation. These forests support ecosystems of distinctive floristic and structural form and contain a disproportionately large number of the worlds endemic and threatened species.
- Gathering Storm - The humanitarian impact of climate change
As the Poznan Climate Change conference enters its final days, UNEP, with IRIN (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ),is pleased to announce the launch of eight short videos exploring the human cost of climate change in Africa. While climate change is not new to Africa, the pace of change has accelerated, as it has in many other parts of the world. Examining specific examples of change in Africa can help shed light on the causes of change, the problems engendered, and possible solutions
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