The 2021/2022 Human Development Report

"The 2021/2022 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent and analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.

Additional resources related to the 2021/2022 Human Development Report can be found online at http://hdr.undp.org. Resources on the website include digital versions and translations of the Report and the overview in more than 10 languages, an interactive web version of the Report, a set of background papers and think pieces commissioned for the Report, interactive data visualizations and databases of human development indicators, full explanations of the sources and methodologies used in the Report’s composite indices, country insights and other background materials, and previous global, regional and national Human Development Reports. Corrections and addenda are also available online.."
Human Development Report 

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

[United Nations]

"The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

Summary for Policymakers

The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides a high-level summary of the key findings of the Working Group II Report and is approved by the IPCC member governments line by line.

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Climate Change 2022 

AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

"The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.

Summary for Policymakers

The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides a high-level summary of the understanding of the current state of the climate, including how it is changing and the role of human influence, and the state of knowledge about possible climate futures, climate information relevant to regions and sectors, and limiting human-induced climate change. (39 pages)

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Technical Summary

The Technical Summary (TS) is designed to bridge between the comprehensive assessment of the Working Group I Chapters and its Summary for Policymakers (SPM). It is primarily built from the Executive Summaries of the individual chapters and atlas and provides a synthesis of key findings based on multiple lines of evidence. (150 pages)

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Full report

The thirteen chapters of the Working Group I report provide an assessment of the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, knowledge evaluation gained from observations, reanalyses, paleoclimate archives and climate model simulations, as well as physical, chemical and biological climate processes. (1300 pages?).."

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 UN Climate Change Report 2021 

Emission Gap Report 2020

[United Nations]

"Every year, the Emissions Gap Report signals the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

The 2020 report finds that a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will make no significant difference to long-term climate change..

The world is still heading for a catastrophic temperature rise in excess of 3 degree C this century - far beyond the Pris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to well below 2 degree c and pursuing 1.5 degree C.

But hope lies in a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which could help put the world close to the pathway to 2 degree C, and growing commitments to net-zero emissions by 2050 - although more work would be required to reach the 1.5 degree C goal..."
Emissions 

United In Science: High-level synthesis report of latest climate science information convened by the Science Advisory Group of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019

[via United Nations}
"The UN Climate Action Summit 2019 Science Advisory Group called for this High Level Synthesis Report, to assemble the key scientific findings of recent work undertaken by major partner organizations in the domain of global climate change research, including the World Meteorological Organization, UN Environment, Global Carbon Project, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Future Earth, Earth League and the Global Framework for Climate Services. The Report provides a unified assessment of the state of our Earth system under the increasing influence of anthropogenic climate change, of humanity’s response thus far and of the far-reaching changes that science projects for our global climate in the future. The scientific data and findings presented in the report represent the very latest authoritative information on these topics. It is provided as a scientific contribution to the UN Climate Action Summit 2019, and highlights the urgent need for the development of concrete actions that halt the worst effects of climate change.

The Synthesis Report is an example of the international scientific community’s commitment to strategic collaboration in order to advance the use of scientific evidence in global policy, discourse and action. The Science Advisory Group will remain committed to providing its expertise to support the global community in tackling climate change on the road to COP 25 in Santiago and beyond..."
U.N. Climate change report

UN Statistical Yearbooks

"The scanned copies of Statistical Yearbooks are available in this section back to the first issue from 1948. Over the past 60 years or more, while the Yearbook has remained a consistent reference book for statistical tables produced by international organisations, much has varied in terms of its frequency, contents and style. While the main dimensions of the statistical tables within its pages has remained constant, referring to statistics of countries and areas across time; the number and names of these countries and areas has changed, the types of statistics available at the international level has evolved and grown and so has the frequency at which many of these are measured. To make better sense of this changing history the following reference materials are recommended to users in interpreting these past issues:

• 1. The list of past Yearbooks: this provides information on each Yearbook published in terms of the year referenced on the cover, publication year, data as at month/year and total page count. XLSX
• 2. The catalogue of past Yearbook tables: this provides information on every table published in a Yearbook in terms of the table names (as published/ classified), table numbers (as published/ as a unique id), page number within an issue, table category (as classified) XLSX.
• 3. The standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49 HTML): this standard documents the changes to countries and areas over time.

The scans were prepared with special thanks to the Digitization Team of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations Department of Public Information.
Please Note: Yearbook issues 18, 28, 29, 34, 35, 37 and 46 are missing from this webpage but will be added soon...".
UN Statictics

The World's Women: 2015

Find the  latest data on the population of women in the world published by the United Nations Statistics Division.
World's women