Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Topic "Environment under review"
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Air Policy - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 12
(2019)Policies enacted to address air pollution, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and PBTs should account for the mix of emissions, the atmospheric or environmental lifetime of the pollutant and its associated bene ... -
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Ammonia Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 37
(1990)Ammonia is a colourless acrid-smelling gas at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Most people can identify its odour at 35 mg/rn3 in air. It can be stored and transported as a liquid at a pressure of 10 ... -
Annotations to the Provisional Agenda - African Ministerial Conference on the Environment - Seventh Special Session: Meeting of the Expert Group
(2018-09-10)AMCEN/SS.VII/EGM/1/Add.1: Annotations to the provisional agenda -
Annotations to the Provisional Agenda: African Ministerial Conference on the Environment Seventh Special Session - Ministerial Meeting
(2018-09-11)Annotations to the provisional agenda- Ministerial segment -
Arendal II Workshop Report - UNEP and CGIAR Cooperation on Data, Capacity Building and Networking Needs for the Use of Geographical Information Systems in Agricultural Research
(1995)The primary objective of the workshop was to provide a sound basis for project planning and implementation. With this in mind and with the indicated directions emerging from the Washington meeting, the main thrusts of ... -
Assessment of Complementarities between GGGI’s Green Growth Index and UNEP’s Green Economy Progress Index - GGGI Technical Report No. 10
(2019)This report assesses the complementarities between these two indices and discusses their main similarities and differences. It also presents the results from the global applications of both indices, including a detailed ... -
Bagmati Zone, Nepal: Maps and Graphics – GRID Case Study Series No. 6
(1992)Nepal Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities have been conducted to demonstrate the use of Geographic Information System technology for the planning process in Nepal and establish GIS capabilities at ICIMOD. -
Bangkok: State of Environment 2003
(2003)This SoE report presents the key priority issues of Bangkok, which are analyzed following the "pressure-state-impact-response" (PSIR) framework. The key environmental issues of Bangkok City continue to be air quality, water ... -
A Bibliography of the Annual Sessions of the Governing Council 1973 - 1983
(1983)This bibliography is the second in the series devoted to the documents produced by the United Nations Environment Programme. Like the first bibliography, it serves as a user's guide to the holdings of the UNEP Library and ... -
Biodiversity Policy - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 13
(2019)This chapter follows the twofold (top down and bottom up) policy effectiveness assessment framework outlined in Chapter 10. Key policies and governance approaches (top down): A set of policy clusters and five specific ... -
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 ... -
Brief on the Guidelines for the Monitoring and Assessment of Plastic Litter in the Ocean: Recommendations and Future Steps
(2019)The principle purpose of this report is to provide recommendations, advice and practical guidance for establishing programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of plastic litter, also referred to as ... -
Briefing Note on UNEA 4 and UNEA 5 for relevant Regional Ministerial or Expert Meetings
(2019)This note provides an overview on key documents relevant for discussions on follow-up of the fourth session of UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 4) and on preparations for the fifth session of Assembly (UNEA 5), in support of ... -
Building a Digital Ecosystem for the Planet - Foresight Brief No. 014 September 2019
(2019)Emerging frontier technologies have dramatically boosted the ways in which we can monitor the health of our planet. If we can leverage this information effectively, we will be able to assess and predict risks, increase ... -
Buts et principes de l'évaluation de l'impact sur l'environnment: (Décision 14/25 du Conseil d'administration du PNUE en date du 17 juin 1987) - Droit de l'environnement: Lignes Directrices et Principes 9
(1987)Las buts et Les principes de l'EIE énoncés dans ce document ont par nécessité an caractère général et pourront être davantage affinés au cours des travaux d'évaluation accompils aux niveaux national, régional et international. -
Can Television Tell the Environmental Story?: Report of the Seminar "Visual Media and the Environment" - CEP Technical Report 28
(1993)This paper highlights some of the major environmental issues or concerns in the Caribbean and indicate some of the steps towards dealing with them. This focus on environmental issues of prime concern to the Caribbean is ...