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In November 2014, the UNEP Inquiry on the Design of a Sustainable Financial System asked the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) to co-produce a paper on the...

This short booklet briefly outlines various concrete and practical ways of achieving the desired synergies. It is based on a series of regional and sub-regional workshops...

This atlas is comprised of a list of common and economically/environmentally important alien species in the NOWPAP region with their illustrations and basic data on the biology,...

Mongolia’s vast surface area includes approximately 13 million hectares of forest – an area roughly the size of Nepal. These forests can be categorised into two broad zones:...

Tailings are a common consequence of metal ore mining. Depending on the mineralogy of the mined ore and the process employed the tailings may contain elevated concentrations of...

The updated State Environmental Policy of the Czech Republic (SEP CR) is based on documents prepared in 1999, which the Government of CR acknowledged in its Resolutions of April...

Formaldehyde is a flammable, colourless and readily polymerized gas at ambient temperatures. The most common commercially available form is a 30-50% aqueous solution....

This book contains the stories of the hard work of the past 20 years that went into making the Montreal Protocol work. As the biggest producer and consumer of ozone depleting...

In March 2019, during the Second United Nations High-Level Conference on South-South cooperation (SSC) and called for greater South-South cooperation to achieve sustainable...

This aerial survey report highlights some destruction of natural resources on Mt. Kilimanjaro. The report shows the type and extent of forest destruction that has taken place so...

This note presents supplementary information concerning the implementation of paragraph 88 of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,...

This report presents in the first place, a description of the regulatory framework at the international level in relation to mercury and mercury waste. It also underscores the...

The intention of this work is to provide a combined list of amphibian and reptile species included in the Appendices to CITES, the Annexes of the European Community (EC)...

Polychlorinated dibenzo—p—dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) are two series of tricyclic aromatic compounds with similar chemical and physical properties;...

UNEP, in collaboration with the contributors from defence forces, has developed this tool-kit for national security and the environment, focusing on ozone and climate issues. It...

This Atlas of marine and coastal resources in Tanzania is designed to raise the awareness and understanding of non-specialists, particularly decision makers, resource managers,...

The Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution (LBS) Protocol (signed in 1999 and adopted in 2010) and the Caribbean Regional Action Plan for Marine Litter (RAPMaLI) (developed in...

Considerable finance is needed to drive the transition to a green, inclusive economy. A “clean trillion” of additional investment is needed annually up to 2030 to enable new...

El objetivo de este documento es ejemplificar casos de integración y complementariedad entre políticas públicas en materia de protección social y sostenibilidad ambiental.

It is the aim of this document to take the ecotoxicologist's point of view and consider effects on populations of organisms in the environment. The risk to human health of the...