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Fossil fuels are essential for modern, mechanized agricultural production systems. Petroleum products are used directly to power tractors, machinery and irrigation, and to...

The objective of this study is to produce economic evidence on the economic, social and environmental impacts of current practices of revenue genera- tion from the extraction...

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...

Acrylonitrile is a colourless, volatile, chemically reactive liquid; it does not occur as a natural product. The monomer is used world-wide, on a large scale, in the manufacture...

Almost 90 percent of global marine fish stocks are now fully exploited or overfished, and wild capture fisheries struggle without sound regulatory frameworks and strong...

In 2015, total electricity produced was 93 ktoe, of which 51.6 per cent came from fossil fuels, 19.3 per cent from hydro and 27.9 per cent from solar and wind. Final electricity...

In 2008, Oleksandr Yushchenko visited the Biofach trade fair and felt inspired after meeting dozens of organic producers in person. Upon his return home in Ukraine, he decided...

This study identifies how risks related to plastic pollution play out across insurance lines and asset classes in which insurers invest. It argues that insurers should take an...

This chapter focuses on the role and importance of natural capital in measuring the IW of nations. The analysis is based on the same data set used in Chapter 1: a 140-country...

Guinea Bissau has a population of 1.75 million. Total production of electricity in 2015 was 13 ktoe with all of it produced from fossil fuels. Final consumption of electricity...

Funding, capacity building, knowledge sharing, international outreach, debt sustainability, trade facilitation, domestic resource mobilization, effective public–private...

This section provides a detailed look at the role that government actors and stakeholders can play in supporting the dissemination and wider communication of sustainability...

The National Mercury Inventory for the United Republic of Tanzania has been developed by the Vice President’s Office – Division of Environment through multi-stakeholders task...

This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in...

Training Manual on Integrated Environmental Assessment and Reporting in Africa

This global cross-sector report assesses the environmental dimension of sustainability reporting and provides recommendations to make environmental reporting relevant to all...

The objective of the workshop was to enable the participating countries to set up and implement efficient legal systems and institutional framework to control and monitor ODS...

The present report has been prepared by the Green Jobs Initiative1 and the International Institute for Labour Studies at the ILO as a contribution to the United Nations...

The present monograph should serve as a useful guide to the conduct of epidemiological studies on the effects of non—biological agents on the health of human communities. An...

This report provides a scientific basis to decision makers in developing policy strategies that incorporate regional differences in marine ecosystems supporting fish stocks, and...