Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Topic "Cities and lifestyles"
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Assessing Global Resource Use: A System Approach to Resource Efficiency and Pollution Reduction
(2017)This report focuses on the state and trends of ‘material’ resource use (biomass, fossil fuels, metals and non-metallic minerals), with further types of resources (land/water) and greenhouse gas emissions remaining as major ... -
Assessing Global Resource Use: A System Approach to Resource Efficiency and Pollution Reduction - Factsheet
(2017)Better and more efficient production and use of natural resources can be one of the most cost-efficient and effective ways to reduce impacts on the environment (including pollution) and advance human well-being. -
Assessment of Urban Air Quality
(1988)The overall purpose of this report is: - to continue the ongoing process of producing periodic evaluations of the global air pollution situation in urban areas; - to continue to develop and advance the techniques used for ... -
Become a #SolveDifferent Champion: A Guide for Member States
(2019)This toolkit for Member States contains practical guidance and information for use in the lead-up to and during the Assembly. -
Biological Diversity and the Urban Environment - Ecosystem Conservation Group Issue Paper
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2001)At its eighteenth session, held on 9 July 1998 at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAQ), in Rome, the Ecosystem Conservation Group (ECG) decided that the issue of biological ... -
Bottom-up Initiatives and Participatory Approaches for Outlooks - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 23
(2019)This chapter assesses participatory processes and local practices seeking transformed futures and grounds the interventions proposed in Chapter 22 with existing examples. The following sections provide background information ... -
Building an Environmental Management Information System (EMIS): Handbook with Toolkit
(2001)EMIS stands for Environmental Management Information System. Such a system consists of formalised steps to capture information, as well as fixed procedures to retrieve this information. Generally speaking, the EMIS covers ... -
Building Better Cities: ASEAN Looks to the Future
(2018)The rapid growth of urbanization signals a significant demographic shift that will change the way people live and the way our human settlements function. New infrastructure and systems are needed to support the growing ... -
Building Partnership for Coastal Cities in Western Indian Ocean Region
(2018)Cities and urban settlements have developed in coastal zones for millennia - resource-rich and strategic from transport, trade and defense perspectives. Although cities only cover 2 percent of the world’s land surface, ... -
Building Resilient Societies after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Messages from the International Resource Panel
(2020)The world is experiencing an unprecedented moment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. For us at the International Resource Panel (IRP) it is also a moment to reflect. This document provides policy recommendations extracted ... -
Burkina Faso: Groupe de recherche et d’analyse appliquées pour le développement
(2017)The main objective is to contribute to the emergence of sanitized cities the municipalities Dédougou and Koudougou based on an integrated and sustainable waste management system through establishment of an integrated and ... -
Burkina Faso: Transformation des déchets ménagers en fertilez agricole [Transformation of Household Wastes into Fertilizers]
(2017)Hygiene and sanitation in urban areas is a struggle without respite because of the challenge of the continuous increase in urban dwellers. The increase in population is synonymous with increased household waste. These ... -
Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living
(1991)The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new ethic, the ethic for sustainable living, and ... -
Cities and Carbon Finance: A Feasibility Study and an Urban CDM
(2012)This report analyses existing Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) methodologies and makes specific recommendations on how cities can improve their access to climate finance through the use of Urban CDM and addresses three ... -
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities
(2013)These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate the abundance of options available that could ... -
Cleaner Production: A Guide to Sources of Information
(1998)Obtaining information on cleaner production can be a challenging task of sifting through the seemingly endless amount of resources that are constantly changing. Not only is new information being made available every day, ... -
Climate Action: Assisting Business Towards Carbon Neutrality - Special Focus on Africa and Sustainable Cities
(2011)Negotiations on how over 190 countries can move forward on climate change come to Durban, South Africa, amid concerns that the gap between scientific reality and political ambition remains firmly in place and may be widening. ... -
Closing Data Gaps is Essential to Achieving the Environmental Dimension of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development - SDG Policy Brief No. 008 October 2019
(2019-10)The Sustainable Development Goals Policy Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change. The evidence provided builds on the scientific data and information hosted on Environment Live and is complemented by stories ... -
Coastal Cities in WIO Region: New Opportunities for the Nairobi Convention
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018)Of the 17 Goals, SDG 11, make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (Sustainable Cities and Communities), also known as the ‘urban SDG’, recognizes urbanization and city growth as a ... -
Collaborating to Facilitate Investments and Shifts to a Green Economy that Can Improve Social Wellbeing and the Provision of Ecosystems Services in the Port Elizabeth Western Catchment Areas - South Africa
(2017)The project proposes to bring a wide variety of people in the Kouga and Krom catchments together to address the sustainable development challenges on the landscape and effect a shift to SCP and ecoentrepreneurship practices. ...