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Human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) seek to analyse inequalities that lie at the heart of development problems, and redress discriminatory practices and unjust distributions...

The main objective of the workshop was to promote discussions, gather information and establish a working plan on sustainable consumption issues for the region. The main...

Madagascar has expressed its concerns about the precious richness of the marine and coastal area by ratifying the ʺNairobi Conventionʺ in 2001. Madagascar has important marine...

The Energy Report Series published by the United Nat ions Environment Programme gives the results of UNEP projects in the field of Energy and reports on emerging issues of...

What's new in 2012? New records set for low snow extent and sea ice extent, and for widespread ice sheet melting, despite air temperatures - a key cause of melting - being...

Mercury is a metal which is liquid at normal temperatures and pressures. It forms salts in two ionic states mercury(I) and mercury (II). Mercury (II), or mercuric, salts are...

The main objective of the EIA: 155ue5, Trends and Practice document is to enhance the capacity of countries, particularly developing countries and countries in transition to...

While developed countries control most of the world's financial resources, it is the developing world that is home to most of its biological resources. This study provides an...

Policies & realities from around the world

This report covers progress on implementation from January to December 2021 of the PEA project through its eight full-fledged country projects and six technical assistance...

This provisional financial report provides detailed information on finances for the Poverty Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals (PEA) joint project of the...

This report provides an overview of the process which needs to be followed when complaints on possible unsatisfactory conduct are raised, data on complaints involving...

In January 2017, scientists announced new discoveries showing that the Central Congo Basin Peatlands form the largest area of peat swamp forest in the tropics. Estimates of soil...

Uma viagem retrospectiva ao conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável conduz-nos, ate dois eventos marcantes da história: Maurice Strong, quem enquanto Secretario Geral da...

This document Series on Environmental Law, contains a model legislative proposal for a Basic Law on Environmental Protection and the Promotion of Sustainable Development for the...

Lead is a bluish or silvery-grey soft metal. With the exception of the nitrate, the chlorate, and, to a much lesser degree, the chloride, the salts of lead are poorly soluble in...

This study quantifies the sources of cadmium in the European Community (EC), reviews the concentrations found in the physical environment and its biotic components, and assesses...

This report is the product of the task team for the east asian seas region.

The fourth ordinary meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (Genoa, September 1985), when considering the workplan of the Priority Actions Programme...

The major question explored in this paper is: "What are the environmental effects of stabilization and structural adjustment programmes?" Implicit in this question is a desire...