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Environmental Aspects of the Motor Vehicle and its Use: An Overview
Although no way has yet been found of quantifying the motor vehicle's undoubted benefits or its disadvantages, including social aspects and costs, this booklet, which is based... -
Reducing Emissions from Private Cars: Incentive Measures for Behavioural Change
This report is intended to motivate concerted efforts by governments, industries and citizens to reduce emissions from the private car sector. The contents of this report are... -
Liveable Cities: The Benefits of Urban Environmental Planning - A Cities...
This report, focusing on the urban challenge, brings together concrete case studies from cities around the world which are struggling, but also in many cases succeeding in... -
Regional Briefing on National Adaptation Plans - Caribbean in Focus
This briefing Regional Briefing on National Adaptation Plans - Caribbean in Focus aims to provide a brief overview of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) experiences of Caribbean... -
Overview of the Republic of Korea's Green Growth National Vision - An Interim Report
The objectives of the review are: 1) to explain a major change in strategic thinking and economic policy in the Republic of Korea, towards a “green growth strategy”, 2) to... -
Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Transitions in the ASEAN Region: A Resource...
Drawing from the conclusions in the forthcoming global report of the International Resource Panel “The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization” this... -
Regional briefing on National Adaptation Plans - Asia-Pacific in Focus
This Briefing Regional briefing on National Adaptation Plans - Asia-Pacific in Focus aims to provide a brief overview of the NAP experiences of middle-income countries in the... -
Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India: Gender Sensitive Transport Planning...
Mobility and gender inequality are important issues that must be factored into discussions on low carbon transport in India. Indian women and low-income groups still generally... -
Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India – Low Carbon Comprehensive Mobility...
The cities of fast developing countries like India continue to grow rapidly in terms of its spatial extent and population, as a consequent of growth of national of the country.... -
Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India – Low-Carbon Comprehensive Mobility...
Visakhapatnam is the second-largest urban agglomeration in Andhra Pradesh with a population of about 1.73 million (Census, 2011). It has been and continues to be a hub of... -
Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India – Low-Carbon Comprehensive Mobility...
A low-carbon mobility approach requires clear and innovative thinking about city futures in terms of the reality (what is already there), desirability (what we would like to... -
Annex III: Accounting for Nature in Urban Planning: How Ecosystem Accounts...
This annex responds to some of the key barriers identified to scaling up the use of the NbS – particularly the challenges of showing that nature in cities can be an ‘asset’... -
Measuring Progress: the Environmental Dimension of the Sustainable...
This report on the environmental dimension of the SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean aims to explore the relationship between the environment and the issues prioritized in... -
Latin America and the Caribbean : UNEP in the Regions - Environment for Development
The main pressures on the environment and natural resources are poverty, increasing income inequality, limited planning, especially in urban areas, and high dependence of many... -
SDG 11 Issue Brief: Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe,...
Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) – making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable highlights the important role cities play in the global... -
Sustainable Urban Energy Planning: A Handbook for Cities and Towns in...
The main purpose of this handbook is to assist people who are working in or with local government to develop sustainable energy and climate action plans and implementation... -
The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization - Factsheet
We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shift future urbanization on to a more environmentally sustainable and socially just path. The Weight of Cities suggests a new... -
City-level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of...
Global economic production is now concentrated in cities. Some 80% of global GDP is produced in cities on just 2% of the land surface, though cities depend on the flow of... -
Building Better Cities: ASEAN Looks to the Future
The rapid growth of urbanization signals a significant demographic shift that will change the way people live and the way our human settlements function. New infrastructure and... -
Towards Zero-Pollution Cities: Making Mega Cities Resource Efficient,...
Delhi, India is typical of many megacities in Asia and Africa, with large populations, swift economic growth that spurs in-migration, and an already stressed built environment...