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    • 2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2017)
      The 2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement provides an up-to-date overview of the scale and type of sustainable procurement activities undertaken worldwide in the past three years. It addresses a longstanding ...
    • Andes Action: Restoration of One Million Hectares of High Andean Forest Ecosystems 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019)
      Andes Action is a new Latin American-led large-scale restoration initiative, aiming to restore one million hectares of high Andean ecosystems (mostly Polylepis forests) in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and ...
    • Annex C - UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019)
      This annex reviews recent policy changes in energy supply, industry, transport, buildings, and agriculture and forestry in selected G20 countries including Argentina, Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, South ...
    • Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Mitigation Ambition and Action at G20 Level and Globally. Pre-release version of a chapter in the forthcoming UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019 

      Höhne, N.; Fransen, T.; Hans, F.; Bhardwaj, A.; Blanco, G.; den Elzen, M.; Hagemann, M.; Henderson, C.; Keesler, D.; Kejun J.; Kuriyama, A.; Sha, F.; Song, R.; Tamura, K.; Wills, W. (United Nations Environment Programme, 2019)
    • City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities 

      United Nations Environment Programme; International Resource Panel (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 ...
    • Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials / Energy from End of Life (EoL) Tyres - Final Report 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2016)
      This compendium describes, the environmental soundly way to recover materials and energy from waste tyres. General and specific technologies for the recovery of materials/energy from waste tyres are introduced to the target ...
    • Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials from WEEE / E-waste 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2017)
      This compendium describes information on commercially available or near commercially available technologies and associated techniques for resource recovery from WEEE/e-waste and subsequent treatment of residual wastes. The ...
    • Development Strategies of Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries and the Green Economy Approach: A Comparative Analysis - Green Economy Discussion Paper 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2013)
      Through this paper, Development strategies of selected Latin American and Caribbean countries and the green economy approach: A comparative analysis, UNEP aims to set the foundation for a post-Rio+20 regional debate on the ...
    • District Energy in Cities Initiative - [Factsheet] 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019)
      The District Energy in Cities Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and is one of six accelerators of the Sustainable Energy of All (SEforAll) Energy ...
    • Eficiencia en el uso de los recursos en América Latina 

      Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA); Mercosur de Investigaciones Económicas (Red Mercosur). (Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA)Mercosur de Investigaciones Económicas (Red Mercosur)., 2011)
      El informe «Eficiencia en el uso de los recursos en América Latina: perspectivas e implicancias económicas» aporta información que contribuye a la integración de la eficiencia en el uso de recursos en la formulación de ...
    • Estado de la Movilidad Eléctrica: América Latina y el Caribe 2019 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2020)
      Esta es la tercera edición del informe regional sobre movilidad eléctrica en América Latina y el Caribe, para el año 2019, desarrollado por la plataforma MOVE de la Oficina Regional del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para ...
    • Fisheries Subsidies and Marine Resource Management: Lessons Learned from Studies in Argentina and Senegal 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2002)
      The Argentine and Senegalese studies presented in this report were conducted within the framework of two broader UNEP Country Projects that involved the collaboration of a number of individuals and organizations. Each of ...
    • Floriculture and the Environment: Growing Flowers without Methyl Bromide 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2001)
      This Manual is intended as a general guide for the implementation of alternatives to methyl bromide in the commercial production of cut flowers. It seeks to provide practical, easy to understand information that can be ...
    • GEO Juvenil Argentina 

      United Nations Environment Programme (PNUMA); Fundación Ecológica Universal (FEU), Argentina (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) para el Fundación Ecológica Universal (FEU), Argentina, 2002)
      El informe GEO Juvenil Argentina “Sembrando Futuro” es parte del proceso GEO en el ámbito mundial. Los informes GEO evalúan periódicamente el estado del medio ambiente y brindan orientación para los procesos de toma de ...
    • Global Mercury Waste Assessment: Review of Current National Measures 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2017)
      The Minamata Convention on Mercury mandates that mercury waste be managed in an environmentally sound manner, taking into account the guidelines developed under the Basel Convention, and in accordance with requirements to ...
    • Global report on validated alternatives to the use of methyl bromide for soil fumigation 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNEPFAO, 2001)
      Methyl bromide (MeBr), used as a fumigant to control several soil-borne pests in various crops, is a strong ozone depleter, and governments and international agencies aware of the problem have agreed to establish a programme ...
    • Handbook of Environmental Legislation and Machinery 

      United Nations Environment Programme (1983)
      The handbook should serve the following purposes: - as a base for UNEP'S advice on the establishment of sound environmental machinery and legislation as a basis of better environmental management; - as a source of ...
    • ILAC República Argentina 

      United Nations Environment Programme (PNUMA); Ministerio de Salud y Ambiente de la Nación Argentina; Secretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA)Ministerio de Salud y Ambiente de la Nación ArgentinaSecretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable, 2006)
      La Iniciativa Latinoamericana y Caribeña para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ILAC) formulada sobre la base de la Plataforma de Acción de Río de Janeiro hacia Johannesburgo 2002, reconoce la importancia de las actividades ...
    • Infoterra: 15 Years of Making a Difference - Exchange of Environmental Experience Series No. 4 

      United Nations Environment Programme (1992)
      The series, entitled Exchange of Environmental Experience, grew out of a recognition that a great deal of valuable experience on the environment was being shared through the INFOTERRA network, and perhaps much of this ...
    • Integración, Comercio y Ambiente en El Mercosur - GEO Mercosur 

      United Nations Environment Programme (PNUMA); Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES) (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA)Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES), 2008)
      El MERCOSUR es una experiencia de integración regional en América Latina que ha alcanzado progresos significativos en términos políticos, económicos, culturales, sociales y ambientales con importantes implicaciones en la ...