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Almost one-third of the world’s population faces dangerous temperatures for more than 20 days a year, while heatwaves cause 12,000 deaths annually. Staying cool is a health and...

This publication report focuses on 10 key economic sectors because we see these sectors as driving the defining trends of the transition to a green economy, including increasing...

The labelling system has become not only a response to the population’s concern about the worsening state of the environment, but rather proved to be an efficient method for...

The Action Plan for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in Mauritius sets out a roadmap to a sustainable and resilient tourism accommodation sector in Mauritius. It...

The fourth-largest city in the state of Gujarat, Rajkot has experienced significant growth in recent years. As a participant in UNEP’s Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India...

This policy guide offers a range of options for building green bond markets which ultimately will help policymakers, regulators and public financial institutions meet their...

The overall purpose of this report is: - to continue the ongoing process of producing periodic evaluations of the global air pollution situation in urban areas; - to continue to...

This report presents early data outputs from the Observatory to understand COVID-19 fiscal spending priorities in 2020 and which environmentally and economically desirable...

This document is a review of occupational and environmental exposure to selected synthetic organic fibres. The particular fibres covered in this document have been selected...

Twenty years after the first Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, UNEP launched the Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities (GI-REC), with the goal of applying...

Coal combustion is a major source of anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that coal combustion contributes about 24%...

UNEP has conducted several environmental programs in Indonesia to improve air quality in Indonesia. Among other is the successful lead phasing out program for gasoline and Clean...

This publication marks the second iteration of work produced by UNEP FI AMWG on the financial materiality of ESG issues. For this round, the AMWG requested ten sell-side...

Este documento de visión evalúa las perspectivas de descarbonización neta en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Presenta un conjunto de escenarios con medidas que sería...

In this report the more general considerations of environmental behaviour of several radionuclides are discussed, including sources, transport to man and dosimetry. The...

This study offers an overview and sectoral analysis for Moldova’s transition to a green economy. It contains a general introduction and rationale for a green economy; a...

Carbon and oxygen combine to form either carbon monoxide (CO) (incomplete combustion) or carbon dioxide (CO,) (complete combustion). Whereas carbon dioxide is inert, carbon...

The reference methods described in this manual are intended for use in marine monitoring programmes. It has been written to provide detailed instructions on the analytical...

This report reviews the development of the market for environmental finance in Azerbaijan. Beginning with an overview of recent macro-economic performance, it then sets out the...

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....