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This report reviews the health of the oceans by analyzing sources and types of marine pollutants.

Carbon dioxide is altering the chemistry of the surface oceans and causing them to become more acidic. From scientists and marine resource managers, to policy and decision-...

En mayo de 1984, el Programa de l~s Naclones Unldas para el Media Ambiente (PNUMA) [United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)] aprob6 el Plan Global de Acci6n para Ia...

More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than double that number lack access to safe sanitation. With a rapidly growing global population, demand...

The case studies include: i) Delivering the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development 2016-2025 through a highly inclusive process to transpose Agenda 2030 and its...

This institutional assessment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) covers the period from 2014 to mid-2016. Applying the MOPAN 3.0 methodology, the assessment...

The four key objectives of this report, prepared at the request of the UNEP Regional Seas Programme, are to provide: a quick desktop review of ongoing monitoring and assessment...

Proactive policies to protect and restore the health of the world’s coral reefs could generate a substantial economic gain, provide important societal benefits, including to...

The Amazon is widely considered to be one of the world's most important natural areas and a high priority for conservation. Its importance to the global carbon cycle makes...

To support the country’s restoration objectives this study therefore seeks to identify priority areas in existing cocoa landscapes where tree cover could be increased to meet...

The document has been prepared in response to the decision of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans made at the 18th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and...

To monitor the effects of coastal development and to apply coastal resource management recommendations to the State of Bahrain, an inventory of the distribution and condition of...

An international commodity used for food, household and industrial purposes, oil palm is cultivated on approximately 15 million ha worldwide. As global demand for palm oil is...

The method described is suitable fer the determination of mesophilic aeromonads in coastal bathing waters of temperate and trop1cal seas. It is designed to be used as a...

Afghanistan is a country of dramatic landscapes, but life can be harsh for communities living in its remote mountain regions. Floods, landslides, avalanches, and droughts...

The purpose of this publication is to present considerations which can serve as the basis for potential cooperation between RFBs and RSCs. It describes the concept of ecosystem-...

This document contains basic information on practically all projects supported by UNEP which were, or are, related to the protection of the oceans and coastal areas and the...

The present assessment on land-based activities affecting the marine, coastal and associated freshwater environment in the South-East Pacific region was prepared as a main...

Sanitation, including the proper management of wastewater, is central to ensuring human and ecosystem health, and economic and environmental benefits. While significant efforts...

This paper proposes some pollution control alternatives as mechanisma to address surrent regional problems in South-East Pacific.