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Transition to a green economy: benefits, challenges and risks from a sustainable development perspective
(2012)This document responds to this mandate. It contains three papers. The first one, by José Antonio Ocampo, looks at the macroeconomic policy implications of the transition to the green economy. The second, by Aaron Cosbey, ... -
Transnational Environmental Crime - A Common Crime in need of Better Enforcement: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service - January 2013
(2013)Environmental crime typically refers to any breach of a national or international environmental law or convention that exists to ensure the conservation and sustainability of the world's environment. Five areas are considered ... -
Transnational Project on the Major Regional Aquifer in North-East Africa: Proceedings of project Workshop
(1988)The objective of this project was to achieve regional co-operation in the exploitation and management of the groundwater resources of the "Nubian Sandstone Aquifer" as well as combating desertification, and practice ... -
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Transport and the global environment: accounting for GHG reductions in policy analysis
(UNEP, 2002)This publication is an analytical structure for examining environmental aspect of transport choices. It defines key economic and environmental concepts used in good policy analysis -
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Trends in Resource Use in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2019)Factsheet with the latest findings and trends in the use of natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean. -
Tributyltin Compounds - Environmental Health Criteria 116
(1990)Tributyltin (TBT) compounds are organic derivatives of tetravalent tin. They are characterized by the presence of covalent bonds between carbon atoms and a tin atom and have the general formula (n-C4H9)3Sn-X (where X ... -
Trichlorfon Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 66
(1991)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 alkaline media, at pH 8 and 37.5 °C, it hydrolyses ... -
Trimellitic Anhydride Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 71
(1992)Trimellitic anhydride is a white solid in the firm of flakes. It is readily hydrolysed in water to trimellitic acid, which is moderately soluble in water. Trimellitic anhydride is readily soluble in acetone, cyclohexanone, ... -
Trinidad and Tobago - National Report for Third International Conference
This Report will take stock of Trinidad and Tobagos implementation of the Barbados Plan of Actions (BPOA), and the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation (MSI). Mention will be made of the actions that are needed by the ... -
Trinidad and Tobago: State of the Environment 1997 Report
(Environmental Management Authority (EMA) - Trinidad and Tobago, 1997)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 exploited. In this report the principal ... -
Trinidad and Tobago: State of the Environment 1998 Report
(Environmental Management Authority (EMA) - Trinidad and Tobago, 1998)The 1998 State of the Environment Report is the second of our annual reports that focuses on a selected area or aspect of the environment, which the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) has prioritised for attention. ... -
Trinidad and Tobago: State of the Environment Report 2000
(, 2000)This Report provides an analysis and status of air pollution in Trinidad and Tobago because of the critical importance of air quality in the sustainable management of the environment and human health. Trinidad and Tobago ... -
Trinidad and Tobago: State of the Environment Report 2003
(Environmental Management Authority (EMA), 2003)The EMA’s 2003 Annual Report continues a tradition of periodic detailed review of the state of aspects of the environment requiring special attention. Due to the very large and rapidly increasing number of public complaints ... -
Trishna and the dream of water
(UNEP, 2006)A children's environmental storybook based on deserts and desertification. Trishna and the Dream of Water is part of the Tunza Environmental Series for Children. -
Tropical Forest Ecosystems: A State-of-Knowledge Report - Natural Resources Research XIV
(1978)The joint action of Unesco and UNEP in preparing this state-of-knowledge Report on tropical forest ecosystems can be seen as a natural outcome of the desire to provide better guidance to research that is vital for the ...