Climate change

This report is based on the assessment carried out by the three working groups of the IPCC, and provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. The report addresses six topics: observed changes in

Scientists predict the earth will probably last another 4 or 5 billion years. By that time, the sun will have burned so much of its own hydrogen fuel that it will expand to incinerate the planets, the earth included.

This book describes some examples

This book deals with the role of plants in combating desertification. Desertification - the degradation of soils in drylands - is a phenomenon occurring in scores of countries around the globe. The number of people (in semiarid regions) affected by the

This edition of the World Disasters Report 2002 provides evidence that investing in preparedness and mitigation helps combat the terrible human and economic toll of disasters. Reducing disaster risk is an urgent priority not only for disaster managers

One of the major goals of WMO, NMHSs, and their systems, programmes and activities and their partners in disaster-prevention and mitigation communities is to reduce the number of deaths, injuries and damage caused by severe weather, climate and water

Climate change is already taking place, and further changes are inevitable. Developing countries, and particularly the poorest people in these countries, are most at risk. Increased climate variability and extreme changes are already having major impacts

The purpose of the international conference organized by the WMO in Madrid, Spain, from 19 to 22 March 2007, was to contribute to secure and sustainable living for all the peoples of the world by evaluating and demonstrating, and hence ultimately

This paper was written by UNEP to introduce a specific session of the Kobe Conference on Disaster Reduction, of January 2005, taking into consideration the increasing frequency and intensity of the disasters the world has faced in the very last years