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Accelerating the Global Adoption of Energy-efficient Lighting - U4E Policy...
This guide offers an overview of the key elements required to transform a national appliance market towards more energy-efficient products through the application of the U4E... -
Gender equality and the environment: A Guide to UNEP's work
This document outlines the linkages between gender equality and the environment, the impacts of gender inequality, how unequal participation in policy- and decision-making... -
Mineral Fertilizer Use and the Environment
This document aims to present a balanced view of, on the one hand, the benefits of using mineral fertilizers and on the other hand the environmental risks involved. This review... -
Water Harvesting and Natural Resource Management in South Sudan: Technical Guidelines
These guidelines constitute a reference document for the mainstreaming of sustainable natural resource management strategies in water harvesting structures in South Sudan for... -
UNEP in Afghanistan: laying the foundations for sustainable development
The report addresses urban environmental issues such as waste management, sanitation, and air quality -
Strategic Environmental Assessment, Cyprus
The Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain programmes on the environment requires certain... -
Status of Protected Area Systems in the Wider Caribbean Region - CEP...
This report documents developments in the protected areas systems in the 37 states and territories that make up the Wider Caribbean Region. Overall, 1,307 protected areas (20%... -
Definitions and Concepts: Background Note. Inquiry Working Paper 16/13
This paper provides an initial mapping of existing practice in G20 and other countries and, where relevant internationally, highlights areas of convergence and difference, as... -
UNEP - WCMC annual report 2001
Biodiversity is the defining characteristic of planet Earth. But our understanding of living things, their role in ecological processes and, most importantly, their significance... -
UNEP Compendium on Human Rights and the Environment: Selected international...
The Compendium on human rights and the environment takes stock of the normative and jurisprudential developments in the field of human rights and the environment. It describes... -
Libreville Declaration on Health and Environment in Africa - 29 August 2008
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Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety...
UNEP is implementing a global GEF project for Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH), as an add-on to the UNEP-GEF Project for... -
The Application of Economic Instruments in Environmental Policies in Brazil,...
The motivation behind the growing interest in economic instruments in Brazil, China and South Korea, as in other developing countries, has been to some extent similar to that of... -
Iraq institutional Capacity Assessment Report
UNEP initiated this institutional assessment of the Ministry of Environment as part of its project for Strengthening Environmental Governance in Iraq. The assessment found the... -
Forest Biodiversity Indicators. Tools for Policy-making and Management
This is a brief introduction to biodiversity indicators in a forest environment - their definition, source, presentation and uses. -
Coral Reefs of the World Volume 3: Central and Western Pacific
The Directory consists of three volumes covering 1) the Wider Caribbean, Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, 2) the Indian Ocean (up to and including South-east Asia), the Red Sea and... -
Responsible Food Purchasing: Four Steps Towards Sustainability for the...
This guidance document will help food purchasers to understand better the importance to their business of responsible food purchasing, while providing practical advice and... -
Iseland's National Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine...
This report forms a part of a large-scale project launched by the United Nations Environment Programme designed to protect the sea from pollution from land-based sources. The... -
Energy Profile: Eritrea
Eritrea’s population was 6.33 million in 2013 (Table 1) (IEA, 2016). Total production of electricity was 38 ktoe in 2015 with 97.3 per cent generated from fossil fuels. Final... -
Energy Profile: Senegal
In 2015, total electricity produced was 343 ktoe, with 88.9 per cent from fossil fuels and 9 per cent from solar and wind. Final electricity consumed was 276 ktoe.