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This study aims at providing facts and evidence to evaluate the actual situation concerning patenting of Clean Energy Technology (CET) in Africa. It builds on an earlier study...

Mountains play an essential role in supplying water, energy, food and other services to millions of people living in the mountains and downstream. Ensuring the continued supply...

The mission was commissioned by the United National Environmental Programme (UNEP), as one of five missions visiting a selection of environmentally important locations in...

This study combines the best available data on carbon stocks and deforestation with protected area data to estimate the area of forest loss within the protected area network of...

The conservation of biodiversity and its sustainable management are internationally recognised as vital global concerns. Identification of the components of biodiversity and the...

The master plan for land management and soil resources.

This report, the third biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provides a basis for the...

Vital Signs (VS) was designed to address this challenge by providing integrated, near real-time measurements of agriculture, ecosystem services, and human well-being. These...

This report describes the state of environmental mediums, and main factors that have impacted the state of the environment in Kosovo

The PCBs are chlorinated hydrocarbons that are manufactured commercially by the progressive chlorination of biphenyl in the presence of a suitable catalyst (e.g., iron...

The United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal partnered and prepared a series of outlook reports on the need for urgent action to protect mountain ecosystems and to...

Finance is the means by which we channel accumulated wealth into productive new activities to generate more real wealth and wellbeing.

The present report is a summary of the Secretary- General’s report (E/CN.6/2015/3) on the 20-year review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and...

The present report is submitted in accordance with the United Nations Environment Programme (“UNEP”) Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption guidelines (“AFAC Guidelines” or “the...

Esta puhlicaciOn ha sido hecha en ci marco tie un acuerdo sobre intercamhio de información en materia de iegisiación amhiental celebrado en octubre de 1993 entre la ProcuradurIa...

Production of iron and salt in Uganda has occurred since ancient times; artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a much more recent phenomenon. The emergence of ASGM can...

Trichlorfon is a colourless crystalline powder that is stable at room temperature. It is slowly hydrolysed in acid media; the half-life is 526 days at pH 1-5 and 20°C. In...

This report deals with the economic valuation of the forestry sector, its linkages to the Kenyan industries and the drivers of consumption. Moreover, an input-output approach is...

The Global Atmospheric Mercury Assessment: Sources, Emissions and Transport

T This outlook has been prepared to review and synthesize the existing climate change adaptation responses in the South Caucasus mountain region. It was undertaken in the...