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Human Impacts of the Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles, A water security perspective
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Human Impacts of the Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles, A water security perspective
Power point presentation on human impacts of the nitrogen and phosphorous cycles: a water security perspective -
Human rights and sustainable finance: exploring the relationship
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)In November 2014, the UNEP Inquiry on the Design of a Sustainable Financial System asked the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) to co-produce a paper on the relationship between a sustainable financial system ... -
Human Rights and the Environment
(2020)This document is not meant to be exhaustive as these rights exist across numerous instruments and laws. The following rights are addressed in the document: The right to a healthy environment; The right to an adequate ... -
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Human Rights and the Environment Rio+20: Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
(2012-06)This report seeks to make a substantive contribution to Rio+20 through an analysis of the interrelationship between human rights and the environment, both integral and indivisible elements of sustainable development. This ... -
Human Rights, the Environment and COVID-19 - Key Messages: Human Rights at the Heart of Response
(2020)The COVID-19 crisis reveals a clear truth about catastrophic risk in an increasingly globalized world: an effective response requires immediate, ambitious and evidence-based preventive action at the international level. ... -
Humanitarian Action and the Environment
(2007)Disasters and conflicts, as well as relief and recovery operations, impact the environment in ways that threaten human life, health, livelihoods and security. Failure to address these risks can undermine the relief process, ... -
Hundreds of Millions of Hectares, Nearly the Size of Brazil, Face Degradation Threat – UN Report Warns
(2014)Implications on food security and natural systems -
Hydrazine Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 56
(1991)Anhydrous hydrazine, and aqueous solutions, are colourless liquids. Anhydrous hydrazine is a caustic, fuming, hygroscopic liquid at normal temperature and pressure. It has an ammoniacal, fishy, and pungent odour. The odour ... -
Hydrogen Sulfide - Environmental Health Criteria 19
(1981)Hydrogen sulfide is a colourless gas with a characteristic odour that is soluble in various liquids including water, alcohol, ether, and solutions of amines, alkali carbonates, and bicarbonates. It can undergo a number of ... -
Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience along International Waters
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2007)Water is a unique and vital resource for which there is no substitute. It ignores political boundaries, fluctuates in both space and time, and has multiple and conflicting demands on its use— problems compounded in the ... -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters : Latin America and the Caribbean
(UNEP, 2008)Water is a unique and vital resource, for which there is no substitute. In Latin America and the Caribbean, major rivers, lakes, and aquifers are shared by two or more countries. The region is characterized by the greatest ... -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters: Africa
(UNEP, 2006)This is the first report in a series of assessment reports in different geographic regions on hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the hydropolitical ... -
Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience along International Waters: Asia
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)This report focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing Asia—a continent with intensively utilized groundwater and surface water resources. The transboundary basins show signs of resilience, but also of vulnerability. ... -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters: Latin America and the Caribbean
(UNEP, 2009)Water is a unique and vital resource. In Latin America and the Caribbean major rivers, lakes, and aquifers are shared by two or more countries. The region is characterized by the greatest availability of freshwater resources. ... -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters: North America
(UNEP, 2009)The main problem in North America is the location of water resources relative to large population centers where the majority of the freshwater drains away from the bulk of the population. Climate variability and change is ... -
Hydroquinone Health and Safety Guide 101
(1996)Hydroquinone is a white crystalline substance when pure and is highly soluble in water. Hydroquinone is combustible when preheated. It is a reducing agent that is reversibly oxidized to semiquinone and quinone.