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Environmental and Health Impacts of Pesticides and Fertilizers and Ways of...
Unlike most industrial chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers (both inorganic and organic) are deliberately released to the environment to provide specific functions. These... -
Clean Energy in China - Clean Air Policy Brief 2019
The objective of this policy brief is to give an overview of the energy transition of China to attain a cleaner energy future. In general, the brief includes a discussion on the... -
Enabling Sustainable Lifestyles in a Climate Emergency
These guidelines for policy makers apply a lifestyles perspective to the sustainability challenge, using climate change as a focal point and providing policy direction to how... -
Economic Instruments for Managing Environmentally Harmful Products in...
Its objective was to help the government of Ukraine to improve the design of existing instruments and develop new ones in order to provide incentives for both reducing pollution... -
Sustaining Forests: Investing in our Common Future - UNEP Policy Series...
This policy brief seeks to outline how forests can be a key part of a green economy that provides opportunities for innovative solutions to forest management. Forests are key... -
Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2013: Key Findings
For the first time in several years, 2012 saw a decline, not a new record, for global investment in renewable energy. As last year’s Global Trends report warned, dollar... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis; Contribution of Working...
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate... -
Green Economy Scoping Study in Belarus: Summary of Results
This study identifies and assesses the impacts of green investments in key sectors in support of a transition to a green economy. The Government of Belarus has actively sought... -
Business Plan of the Mercury Waste Management Partnership Area (2022-2024)
Following priority actions were identified under the current objective: a. Identify and disseminate measures to prevent the generation of and promote environmentally sound... -
Voluntary National Reviews: The Environmental Dimension - Policy Brief
By focusing on the extent to which the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been addressed in the voluntary national reviews (VNRs) submitted... -
Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways to Inclusive...
This report presents early data outputs from the Observatory to understand COVID-19 fiscal spending priorities in 2020 and which environmentally and economically desirable... -
La Dimensión ambiental en la planificación del desarrollo sostenible en...
Esta nota presenta información práctica respecto a las brechas, retos y áreas de oportunidad de Costa Rica para avanzar en una planificación de largo plazo que integre la... -
National Action Plan for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in...
This document is intended to identify key priority activities and projects needed to support the creation of sustainable communities and cities in Egypt through the promotion of... -
Think Piece: Gender and Climate Change in the Context of COVID-19
2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth... -
Islam and Food Systems - Position Paper May 2021
Food plays cultural and spiritual roles for Muslims. The Qur’an makes special references to pure and lawful food and to the principles of balance, justice and health. However,... -
The Strategy for the Development of the Caribbean Environment Programme -...
The strategy for the development of the Caribbean Environment Programme responds to the request of the Fourth Intergovernmental and First Contracting Parties Meeting convened in... -
Conceptual Framework for the Development of a Global Environmental Data Strategy
This document at this stage presents a conceptual framework for the development of a Global Environmental Data Strategy, which by request of Member States, should be finalized... -
Putting Ecosystem Management in the Vision of Africa’s Development: Towards...
This issues paper aims to: i. demonstrate the foundational significance of ecosystems in maintaining Africa’s societies, and ii. draw the attention of Africa’s policy-makers to... -
Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure: Shifting the Lens -...
Shifting the Lens examines the critical uncertainties that influence the selection, design, procurement, deployment and related financing decisions for climate-compatible... -
REDD+ Safeguards Information Systems: Moving from Design to Operation -...
Under the policy and incentives mechanism for climate change mitigation that is REDD+, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requires participating...