Since 1989, long before Zoï existed as Zoï, we are engaged in the global combat against climate change. The early warning studies of the Nile Delta and the Uganda coffee crop have since then become milestones in the international community and are well documented on the cartographic blog of Le Monde Diplomatique http://blog.mondediplo.net/2008-01-22-Le-delta-du-Nil-menace-par-les-eaux.
Since then, Zoï Environment has been working on a wide range of global change related topics, helping to explain climate change in theoretical and practical ways, as well as guiding different groups, such as companies, individuals or cities towards climate neutrality. Increasing importance in our work is to analyze and communicate linkages between climate change and security.
Milestones in this work are visualized syntheses of scientific findings at the Global as well as regional level (“Climate in Peril”, “Climate Change in Central Asia”, “Climate Change in Eastern Europe” “Climate Change in the Caucasus”), the UN ‘cookbook’ on how to become climate neutral (“Kick the habit – A UN guide to Climate Neutrality”), published in all UN langauges (English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Russian). Zoï is continuing to support the UN on its way to become climate neutral through the SUN (Sustainable United Nations) platform. Linkages between the protection of the ozone layer and climate change are analyzed in “Vital Ozone Graphics 2.0 – the climate link” and with “Zoïtopia” we have produced a more radical and very visual input to the climate change debate.
Zoï Books are produced for the United Nations, the European Union, regions and countries and a growing community of readers world-wide. We closely cooperate with GRID-Arendal in providing environmental information for decision-making.
With this publication, Zoï Environment Network aims to communicate the known facts of climate change in a well illustrated, easily understandable manner, accessible to everyone. For this we could rely on the rich Caucasian tradition of geographic analysis, map making and visual arts. Unfortunately, the format did not allow the use of other Caucasian specialities, such as music, film, cuisine or toasts, it will be up to the reader to accompany his or her lecture with some of this. We do however want to make the point that also in the Caucasus, climate change is no more myth.
More than two billion people depend on the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. Preventing land degradation and supporting sustainable development in drylands has major implications for food security, climate change and human settlement. This report, issued at the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, sets out a shared strategy by UN agencies to rise to the challenge of addressing the special needs of these vital zones. This report illustrates the many ways in which the UN system is identifying opportunities to mainstream the drylands agenda into the policy-making process.
The publication prepared by Zoi in cooperation with GRID-Arendal and the Environment and Security initiative explores the impacts of climate change on Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. The three countries of Eastern Europe will not be affected as strongly as many other parts of Eurasia, yet they will see more of severe floods and forest fires, decreasing water reserves in the south, and gradual changes in biodiversity, agriculture and food security. The countries have only started to address these challenges: national policies remain week and the general public is hardly aware of the problem. Meanwhile the industrialized Eastern Europe contributes to the global emissions of greenhouse gases, thus affecting more vulnerable parts of the world. The report was launched at the 7th Ministerial conference "Environment for Europe" in Astana in September 2011.
This book is intended as a basic information kit that tells "the story" of desertification, land degradation and drought at the global scale, together with a comprehensive set of graphics. The book indicates trends as they have taken place over the last decades, combining and connecting issues, and present priorities. It also provides information on the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and how it works to forge a global partnership to reverse and prevent desertification/land degradation and to mitigate the effects of drought in affected areas in order to support poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
The UN system's footprint and efforts to reduce it.
This guide 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.
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.
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.
This publication presents the substance of the Climate Change 2007 Synthesis Report of the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in simplified language and structure.
