82 datasets found

Enhancing the environmental expertise of staff in tertiary institutions in the Asia-Pacific region will facilitate the transition to a more sustainable world. This report...

Desertification has always been one of the major environmental problems of the developing countries in Asia as well as Australia. To focus world attention on this serious...

Air pollution is not only a major health risk, it also has damaging impacts on the environment and agricultural crop yields. These impacts have significant economic...

This report presents the activities and outcomes of the Marrakech Process and provides some highlights and lessons learned. It examines the key outcomes of the Process from...

This Values to Value report highlights the most promising developments taking place in the global financial services sector but also reinforces the scale of the challenge if our...

This report offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how gender, climate and security are linked (section II), and shares – through a series of brief case studies –...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council decision 20/4 (GC2014) calls on the Executive Director in consultations with Governments and relevant...

This report analyzes 2019 investment trends, and clean energy commitments made by countries and corporations for the next decade. It finds commitments equivalent to 826 GW of...

This document was produced by the UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (UNEP DTIE) OzonAction Programme under the framework of the UNEP-U.S. Environmental...

Mercury is recognized as a toxic substance that poses a serious threat to human health and the environment. Nevertheless, large quantities are still used for the manufacture of...

This report provides integrated information on marine litter ranging from mega to micro sizes according to the spatial existence. It reviews the research on marine litter's...

The Regional Seas Programme was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1974 in response to the selection of the oceans as a priority area by the UNEP...

Compilation of the Siren news from UNEP's Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme

This market baseline study provides a global overview of auto fuel (both crude and refined) and vehicle markets in various sub-regions where higher sulphur fuels (in particular,...

The objective of this assessment is to provide an overview of good practices that have emerged in relation to the implementation, protection and promotion of procedural access...

This report synthesizes information on environmental problems - status and trends - related to existing and changing natural and socio-economic conditions in the NOWPAP region.

The 2017 World Water Development Report shows that improved wastewater management is as much about reducing pollution at the source, as removing contaminants from wastewater...

This paper reviews the results of the studies prepared by the Mediterranean Task Team, that were presented at a Joint meeting of the Task Team on implications of Climatic...

This report attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the current situation of oiled wildlife response in the NOWPAP region, and identify future activities to be...

This publication shares information on prediction models that have been developed in NOWPAP member states, in order to analyze the behavior of floating marine litter, and the...