Zoitopia

This publication integrates two streams: the arguments of leading researchers for a more fundamental response to the multiple threats to our single planetary environment with the artistic vision of a world in which everything has been redistributed to achieve radical equity. Both argue for a new way of managing the earth and its resources – a way that provides for everyone’s basic needs. The alternative? Science, they say, offers the probable answer: a return to the dark ages.

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Climate Change in Central Asia

This booklet provides a synthesis of what climate change may mean for Central Asia. It builds upon the latest series of the official national communications on climate change by the Central Asian states under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This highly visual format seeks to communicate to decision makers and to serve education purposes alike.
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Environment and Security Risks in the Southern Mediterranean Region

This synthesis report makes these complex issues better understandable to decision-makers and a more general public: The concise analysis produced integrates the regional environmental and security, political and economical discourse.

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Vital Ozone Graphics 2.0 - Climate Link 

A Resource Kit for journalists, which provides the essential visuals, facts, links and contacts to develop ozone story ideas. This publication is intended to serve as an interesting reference for those who wish to learn more about the Montreal Protocol and ozone layer depletion.

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Khaidarkan Mercury – Addressing primary mercury mining in Kyrgyzstan

This book depicts the world’s last known exporting mercury mine – at Khaidarkan in southern Kyrgyzstan. For the past two years, Zoï assisted the Government of Kyrgyzstan and national and local stakeholders to consider options regarding the future of the mine.

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Climate in Peril - A Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports

This publication presents the substance of the Climate Change 2007 Synthesis Report of the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in simplified language and structure.

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Environment and Security: Transforming risks into cooperation - The case of the Eastern Caspian Region.

This report considers the role and impact of environmental factors in securing human safety and sustainable development of the eastern Caspian Sea region, including the parts of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan opening onto the Caspian Sea.

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Kick the Habit – A  UN Guide to  Climate Neutrality

It shows how various levels of society can work towards climate neutrality. Written and reviewed by experts from many disciplines and various countries, the book is aimed at individuals, small and large businesses, NGOs, international organizations, cities and countries.

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Environment and Security - Transforming risks into cooperation - The Case of Eastern Europe

This publication highlights the importance of recognising the region’s geopolitical positioning between the EU and the Russian Federation, improving energy security without jeopardising the environment, addressing the Transnistrian conflict in Moldova and strengthening cooperation over shared rivers and ecosystems.

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Vital Balkan Graphics

Environmental protection is one of the areas where the Balkan countries still face a big challenge to catch up with their western neighbours. After the 1990s conflicts and the breakup of Yugoslavia, six new Balkan states emerged.  Apart from integrating environmental concerns into the new policies, a major challenge is environmental management across new borders.

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Vital Caspian Graphics

In recent years the Caspian Sea has been the focus of increased global attention. The world-wide decline in oil and gas reserves and have heightened interest in an area where there is still growth potential in oil and gas exploration.

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