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Renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries will prevent 0.4 gigatonnes of emissions by 2020, rising to 1 gigatonne if rich countries step up financing

The purpose of this document is to review and evaluate available information on the biological effects of some petroleum products, and to provide a scientific basis for...

This 4th Flagship Report aims to provide an understanding of the role of government as a vehicle to drive the adoption of VSS. The effectiveness of VSS to contribute to...

The scale of capital expenditure needed over the next decades to effectively address climate change will have to come jointly from public and private sources. This paper...

This report fills and identifies some of the existing information gaps by providing a synthesis of social and economic impacts and their gender and human rights dimensions....

This report provides information from case studies of two firms involved with transitioning from mercury-containing to mercury-free products in the medical technology industry....

This assessment identifies hot spots of oil spill incidents in the NOWPAP region by collecting information on historic spill records, vessel traffic and sources of oil...

When making decisions on investments, economic considerations often takes precedence over environmental and social factors. This may lead to unsustainable decisions and...

This bibliography is the result of surveys conducted by consultants, United Nations Agencies (UNESCO/UN-DIESA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in order to...

En junio del 2012, los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno se reunieron en la ciudad de Río de Janeiro (Brasil), para la realización de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el...

Hydrogen sulfide is a colourless gas with a characteristic odour that is soluble in various liquids including water, alcohol, ether, and solutions of amines, alkali carbonates,...

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...

This report reviews the biodiversity resources of Trinidad and Tobago and the status of harvest and management of a few of the hundreds of species and the range of ecosystems...

The purpose of this publication is to provide a taxonomic list of fish and invertebrates included in Appendices I, 11 and III of the Convention on International Trade in...

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...

For centuries annual sea ice has protected the Arctic and its inhabitants. Now the Arctic, both on land and sea, is being transformed by significant warming. The melting of sea...

This publication aims to gather information on the distribution of floating marine litter in the NOWPAP region. The main objective is to understand the current status of...

In 2015, total electricity produced was 25,399 ktoe, of which 90 per cent was produced from fossil fuels, 4.8 per cent from nuclear and 4.3 per cent from hydro. Final...

Goal 5 offers an opportunity to deliver transformative actions for addressing these constraints and for accelerating progress toward stronger economies.

By 2013, the population of Malawi was 16.19 million. In 2015, total electricity produced was 252 ktoe of which 98.4 per cent came from hydro sources (Table 2). In the same year,...