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Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Ecosystem Services
Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2018, 686p; 44p Summary) Published by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this is a powerful eye-opening work...
Books | Reports, Ecosystem Services | Natural Wealth Valuation, Environmental Assessment, Land Degradation Assessment
Climate Change and Land
Climate Change and Land (IPCC, Aug 2019, 864p, 41p draft) This Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looks into the connection between climate change and land, but...
Exponential Roadmap Initiative
Exponential Roadmap Initiative (2018; Stockholm; 22 staff; exponentialroadmap.org) A collaboration wrote by 20 scientists from Stockholm Resilience Centre, Future Earth, the World Wildlife Fund, and other organizations. It was presented...
Housmans Bookshop
Housmans Bookshop (1945; London; housmans.com) Is a bookshop that “sells a wide range of radical literature - books, pamphlets and magazines - dealing with the full spectrum of campaigning issues,...
International Union for Conservation of Nature
International Union for Conservation of Nature (1948; Gland, Switzerland + 45 local offices; >1000 staff; iucn.org) “The world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization,” and “the largest professional global conservation...
Big Green Organizations, Biodiversity, Books | Reports, Conservation, Conservation Standards, Ecosystem Collapse, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection, Environmental Risk Analysis, Information Portals, Risk of Species Extinction, Species Extinction, Threatened Species, Wildlife Conservation
IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C
IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (IPCC, Oct 2018, 630p, 33p summary) A recent Special Report by the International Pane for Climate Change summarizing >6,000 studies. It focuses...
Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change
Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change (28 Nov 2018, The Lancet) An especially worrisome report from Britain’s premier medical journal, warning that public health gains of past...
Ocean Connections: An Introduction to Rising Risks from a Warming, Changing Ocean
Ocean Connections: An Introduction to Rising Risks from a Warming, Changing Ocean (May 2018, 466p; 37p Summary) This report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature looks into...
Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Reports
Reviewed Reports: Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary General (UN, Sept 2021, 84p)Our Future Agenda: A Vision and Plan for Next and Future Generations (UN, Sept 2021, 54p)Shaping Our Future...
Books | Reports, Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
Polity Books
Polity Books (1984; Cambridge, UK; politybooks.com) Is an independent "publisher in the social sciences and humanities." It publishes a "systematic program of textbooks and course books for students and scholars...
Roadmap to 2050: A Manual for Nations to Decarbonize by Mid-Century
Roadmap to 2050: A Manual for Nations to Decarbonize by Mid-Century (UN SDSN, Sept 2019, 144p) Includes the “expert input from more than 60 engineers and industry leaders who participated...
Biofuels, Books | Reports, Clean Fuel, Electricity, Electrification, Green Synthetic Fuels, Land Management, Resource Efficiency, Smart Grids, Zero Emissions
Scientists Reporting: Top 25 Recent Online Reports on the Global Environmental Emergency
The information revolution in recent decades has produced floods of knowledge, opinion, disinformation, and entertainments in many new formats. Who should we consider for evidence-based thinking about the complex...
Biodiversity Assessment, Books | Reports, Climate Change Assessment, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Health, Environmental Research, Environmental Risk Analysis
Six Transformations to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDSN, Sept 2019, 12p) Introduces the concept of six transformational “building-blocks of SDG achievement: (1) education, gender and inequality; (2) health,...
State of Green Business Report 2020
State of Green Business Report 2020 (Green Biz, 13th edition, Jan 2020, 88p) This annual report examines "the key trends and metrics about corporate sustainability: how, and how well, companies...
Books | Reports, Green Business, Green Investment, Multinational Enterprise Monitoring, Sustainable Business
Sustainable Development Outlook 2021: From Anguish to Determination
(UN Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, 20 Sept 2021, 150p). The third annual Sustainable Development Outlook (SDO), noting that the “COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted significant setbacks upon the progress...
Books | Reports, Environment Outlook|Overviews, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals, UN Sustainable Development Goals
The Fourth National Climate Assessment
The Fourth National Climate Assessment A massive two-volume effort from the U.S. Global Change Research Program that was mandated by the U.S. Congress, and thus escaped the head-in-sand climate change...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability, and People
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability, and People (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development; Jan 2019, 627p) The HKH region extends over all or part of 8...
Time to Care: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis
Time to Care: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis (Oxfam International, Jan 2020, 50p) In 2019, the world’s 2,153 billionaries had more wealth than 4.6 billion...
Alternative Economics, Books | Reports, Economic Transformation, Economics Rethinking, Human Economy, Inequality, Redistribution
World Energy Outlook 2019
World Energy Outlook 2019 (International Energy Agency, Nov 2019, 790p; 6p summary) The “gold standard” of long-term energy analysis: the annual report of the International Energy Agency, an independent arm...
Books | Reports, Clean Energy, Energy, Energy Advisory, Energy and Climate, Energy and Development, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Security