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Wastewater treatment solutions for climate mitigation: a practical guide

The ‘Wastewater treatment solutions for climate mitigation: a practical guide’ provides practical strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the wastewater sector. It outlines methods for monitoring emissions, optimizing treatment processes, and implementing policy and technology solutions to help WWTPs move toward net-zero emissions while supporting global sanitation goals.

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2025 edition of online course: IWRM for Climate Resilience

Integrated Water Resources Management for Climate Resilience, developed by UNEP-DHI in partnership with Cap-Net UNDP, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, UN-Habitat, Global Water Partnership and UNDP, is an online, free and self-paced course that offers five modules designed to help practitioners plan climate resilient measures in the water sector.

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WIPO Green Database of Innovative Technologies and Needs

The WIPO GREEN database is a free, solutions oriented, global innovation catalogue that connects needs for solving environmental or climate change problems with tangible solutions. The database consists of user uploads of needs and solutions, green technology patents from the WIPO Patentscope database, imports from select partner organizations, relevant knowledge material, and relevant expert profiles.

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Restoring the Shabelle River for Climate Resilient Livelihoods in Somalia 

The UNEP-DHI Centre is supporting the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the five-year “RESTORE” initiative by delivering detailed hydrological assessments and decision-support modelling that will guide the rehabilitation and sustainable operation of the Jowhar Off-stream Storage Programme, strengthen flood and drought management across the Shabelle Basin, and build climate-resilient livelihoods for communities in south-central Somalia.

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Publications

Blending IWRM and climate change adaptation to accelerate climate action

Rising temperatures are increasingly disrupting the global water cycle, exposing millions of people across the globe to reduced water security. A UNEP report promotes blending the practices of integrated water resources management (IWRM) and climate change adaptation to expedite progress in both fields and use financial resources efficiently.

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Shrinking glaciers upend lives across South America

The tropical glaciers of the Andes, which feed many of the rivers in the Amazon basin, are some of the fastest retreating ice packs in the world. Their disappearance is not only upending lives in mountain communities, it is also sparking water shortages and hampering hydro-electric power generation across lowland communities home to hundreds of millions of people.

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