Publications
Our publications include more than traditional reports. They span formats such as StoryMaps, apps, photo essays and multimedia. Each one is designed to communicate complex environmental challenges in ways that are visual, engaging, and grounded in real-world impact.
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The Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon Demonstration Project: Building Blue Carbon Projects – An Introductory Guide
Blue carbon projects can work, by using the value of carbon stored and sequestered in coastal and marine ecosystems to support…
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Ultraviolet Vision and Avoidance of Power Lines in Birds and Mammals
The avoidance by mammals and ground-nesting birds of habitat up to several kilometres from high-voltage power lines is a major consequence of infrastructure development in remote areas, but the behavior is perplexing because suspended cables are neither an impenetrable physical barrier nor associated with human traffic (e.g., Vistnes & Nellemann 2008; Pruett et al. 2009;…
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Why Mountains Matter for Energy: A Call for Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This brief highlights the importance of mountain regions for energy-related issues and the need to integrate them into the SDGs
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Why Mountains Matter for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Call for Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This brief highlights the importance of integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DDR) in mountain regions into …
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Why Mountains Matter for Forests and Biodiversity: A Call for Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This brief highlights the importance of forest ecosystems and biodiversity in mountain regions and the need to integrate them into the SDGs
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Mountains as the Water Towers of the World: A Call for Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This brief highlights the importance of mountain regions for water-related issues and the need to integrate them into the SDGs
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Zambia: Atlas of our Changing Environment
The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA), in collaboration with GRID-Arendal and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), prepared the Zambia Atlas of Our Changing Environment. The main objective of the atlas is to provide science-based and credible evidence of the changes that have occurred in Zambia, as well as their causes, and to communicate the…
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Deep Sea Minerals
Rising global demand for metals and developments in technology have recently renewed industry interest in exploring, and exploiting…
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Strengthening the Africa Environment Information Network: A Framework to Increase Access to Environmental Information and to Support Africa’s Development Planning Processes
The Africa Environmental Information Network (AfricaEIN) initiative succeeds the old Africa Environmental Information Network, which was…
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City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions
Urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions
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Nenets Migration in the Landscape: Impacts of Industrial Development in Yamal Peninsula, Russia
Worldwide, traditional pastoralists are facing challenges of industrial development and competitive land use interfering with their nomadic lives. The Yamal peninsula in western Siberia, a homeland of nomadic Nenets reindeer herders, has been subjected to the Bovanenkovo gas field industrial development since the 1980s. We quantitatively assess how industrial development impacts Nenets migration routes and…
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Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Africa
Large-scale land investment is not a new phenomenon in Africa, but the speed and scale at which it is occurring today makes it one of the…
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The View from the Top: Searching for Responses to a Rapidly Changing Arctic
In the fragile Arctic region, the extent of sea ice was at a record low in September 2012. Land ice is also retreating, while snow is disappearing, and permafrost is thawing. Rapid environmental change in the Arctic, as a result of climate change, is providing new development opportunities including easier access to oil and gas,…
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Zambezi River Basin: Atlas of the Changing Environment
The Zambezi River Basin Atlas of the Changing Environment is a basin collaborative initiative with the objective of providing scientific…
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Elephants in the Dust: The African Elephant Crisis
The African Elephant Crisis
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Toxic Metals in Children’s Products: An Insight into the Market in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Children’s products can be a source of toxic chemicals
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Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos and Orangutans
Great apes have become a commodity. In the past decade, a series of alarming reports from international experts, United Nations (UN) agencies, conservation organizations and media outlets have revealed numerous cases of organized illegal trafficking and trade of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans. Environmental crime now ranks among the most significant illegal activities in the…
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The Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon Demonstration Project: Blue Carbon in Abu Dhabi – Protecting our Coastal Heritage
The Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon Demonstration Project aimed to improve the understanding of carbon sequestration and the other ecosystem…
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The State of the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Environment
The Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) was established in 1975 as a coherent legal and institutional framework for cooperation through which…
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Mercury: Time to act
This report speaks directly to governments involved in the development of the global treaty on mercury.
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Dniester River Basin: Environmental Atlas
The Environmental Atlas of the Dniester Basin is the first attempt to present the environmental state of the transboundary river.
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Vital Ozone Graphics 3: 25th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol
On 16 September 1987, the treaty known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was signed.
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Green Carbon, Black Trade
Illegal Logging, Tax Fraud and Laundering in the World’s Tropical Forests
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The Contribution of Space Technologies to Arctic Policy Priorities
This report compares the needs of Arctic stakeholders can make to meet current and future requirements.
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Vital Graphics on Payment for Ecosystem Services: Realising Nature’s Value
This publication highlights the concept and selected market segments relating to payments for ecosystem services.
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Green Economy in a Blue World
The world’s oceans and coasts – the Blue World – are the cornucopia for humanity. They provide us with food, oxygen and livelihoods.