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Ammonia is a colourless acrid-smelling gas at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Most people can identify its odour at 35 mg/rn3 in air. It can be stored and...

The ultimate goal of CEARAC activities is to 'establish cooperative marine environmental monitoring by remote sensing and to contribute to the conservation of the marine...

These conventions contain the essential substance of international environmental law

The primary objective of the 2014 Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR 2014) is to provide quantitative information and analysis on long-term trends in global inclusive wealth (IW), and...

In 2014 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) pub¬lished its first global Adaptation Gap Report (AGR 2014) (UNEP, 2014), which put forward a preliminary framework for...

This Assessment of Assessments (AoA) is a contribution to the EfE Midterm Review within efforts toward SEIS by the EEA, UNECE and their partners. It is commissioned by UNECE to...

The aims of this report are to raise awareness of the contribution that the insurance industry is already making to sustainability and to identify major challenges and...

This report contains a summary and assessment of the data received from the FAO/WHO Collaborating Centres for Food Contamination Monitoring in 19 countries during the period...

This mission was initiated by IMO/UNEP at the request of the Third Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme, held in...

The extent to which human somatic and germinal mutation frequencies may be increased by exposure to ionizing radiation and to the variety of chemicals that characterize modern...

Maximum sea ice extent on 25 February was 15 days earlier than average and lowest value on record (1979 - present). Minimum ice extent in September was 4th lowest on record. Sea...

This report is designed to assist environmental managers and decision-makers understand the current status of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the NOWPAP region.

This first volume of E-waste manual aims to build the capacity of practitioners and policy makers for preparing WEEE/E-waste inventories. The objective of the manual is to...

Session concept paper of UNEP Thematic Session on 'Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction: Building a Multi-stakeholder Partnership ' which was held on 19 January 2005...

This document provides a practical and useful assessment of the current state of knowledge of the economic costs of inaction on the sound management of chemicals. It makes...

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This report synthesizes findings from the MA global and sub-global assessments on biodiversity and human wellbeing. All of the MA authors and Review Editors have contributed to...

This publication contains 16 technical annexes which were used in preparing the report on the state of the marine environment.

Isophorone is a colourless liquid. Its odour has been described as similar to those of peppermint and camphor. It is soluble in water and is miscible in all proportions with...

This study aims to provide greater clarity on policies that banks and investors can adopt to reduce deforestation and forest degradation from the production of soy, palm oil and...