Environment under Review: Emerging Issues Project Globally

Lead PI: Dr. Alexander de Sherbinin
Unit Affiliation: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
March 2016 - October 2016
Inactive
Global
Project Type: Research

DESCRIPTION: The project used case studies and mapping to investigate the role of ecosystem services in both mitigating loss and damage from climate change, as well as the detrimental impacts of climate change on ecoystem services.

OUTCOMES: The main result was a policy-oriented report available at https://environmentlive.unep.org/media/docs/assessments/loss_and_damage.pdf.

SPONSOR: United Nations Environment Programme
FUNDED AMOUNT: $12,500
PUBLICATIONS: Zomers, Z., K. van der Geest, A. de Sherbinin, S. Kienberger, E. Roberts, G. Harootunian, A. Sitati, and R. James. 2016. Loss and Damage: The role of Ecosystem Services. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme. http://ciesin.columbia.edu/documents/UNEP-2016-loss-damage.pdf

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