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Urban water vulnerability to climate change in Mongolia
(Water Authority, Mongolia, 2011)This study aims to present the impacts of climate change upon urban water particularly upon the performance of the urban water supply, wastewater and storm water infrastructure, through compiling existing studies on climate ... -
Urbanization and Economic Growth in Latin America and Caribbean Damaging Air and Water Quality
(2016)Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a biologically rich region with complex political, social and natural contrasts. However, economies share a heavy reliance on primary products and natural resources, which account ... -
Urbanization and Economic Growth in Latin America and Caribbean Damaging Air and Water Quality: Global Environmental Outlook 6 - Factsheet
(UNEP, 2016)The factsheet highlihts the findings of the GEO 6 Regional Assessment of the state of environment in Latin America -
Urgent Issues of the Mycotoxins Problem in Kazakhstan
(Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1984)Mycotoxins which are poisons produced by microscopic fungi form a vast group of substances which contaminate food products [1,2,3,4,5,6] More than 200 mycotoxins have been isolated from food products and identified as ... -
Urgent Problems of the Nutrition Science
(1984)The science of nutrition, nutrItionolo, is concerned with quantitative regularities of metabolism reactions how much of every substance is consumed and formed in the process of vital activity. This quantitative principle ... -
Uruguay: national mercury related activities and legislation
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The Use and Application of Economic Instruments for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development: Report of the Meeting
(1994)The UNEP Consultative Expert Group Meeting on the Application of Economic Instruments for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development was held at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi from 10-12 August 1994. It followed ... -
The Use of Economic Instruments in Carbon Dioxide Mitigation: A Developing Country Perspective - Environment and Trade 12
(1995)This paper examines the use of economic instruments in the protection of the global environment (particularly, global warming caused by enhanced carbon dioxide emissions), examining the potential impact on trade and welfare, ... -
Use of HFCs in Fire Protection Systems - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 18
(2018)The most widely used fire protection systems (FPS) involve water based systems such as automatic sprinklers. An important category of FPS are chemical agents that can quickly extinguish a fire without creating some of the ... -
The Use of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Sudan
(2010)This study demonstrates that liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) use in Sudan is on a slow ascendancy, due in particular to government incentives, investment by LPG companies in distribution infrastructure and dissemination ... -
Use of Nuclear Techniques to Address the Management Problems of Coastal Zones in the Caribbean Region (RLA/7/012) - Report of the Assessment Meeting
(2011-11)The results of the IAEA Technical Cooperation Project on Use of Nuclear Techniques to Address the Management Problems of Coastal Zones in the Caribbean Region, RLA/7/012 were assessed by the National Coordinators of the ... -
Used Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Light Duty Vehicles - Flow, Scale and Regulation
(2020)This report is a first attempt at gathering, analysing, and presenting an overview of the global trade in used vehicles for the purpose of environmental policymaking. This includes information on the supply chains, scale ... -
Using Global Biodiversity Indicators and Underlying Data to Support NBSAP Development and National Reporting: Roadmap to Support NBSAP Practitioners
(2015)The main objective of this Roadmap is to provide support and guidance to national biodiversity practitioners in the use of the global indicators and/or their underlying datasets in the development and implementation of ... -
Using indicators for Green Economy policymaking
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2014)The present document is a response to the call for the UN system to support countries interested in pursuing green economy policies by providing methodologies for their evaluation. It provides guidance to policy analysts ... -
Using Retorts to Reduce Mercury Use, Emissions, and Exposures in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining: A Practical Guide
(2014)One of the purposes of the guide is to help with the implementation of the Minamata Convention obligations.
