Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "Australia"
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Adapting to Climate Change in the Pacific: the PACC Programme
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme began in 2009 a s a regional response to the climate change threat.It is currently the largest climate change adaptation initiative in the region, with activities ... -
Australia: State of the Environment Report 2011 In Brief
(2011)The Australia state of the environment 2011 report was prepared by an independent committee using a range of best available information to support assessments of environmental condition, pressures, management effectiveness, ... -
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 Worldwide
(1995)This booklet aims to show through examples that by applying cleaner production, industry and consumers anywhere in the world can gain environmental benefits while reducing costs. The purpose of this booklet is to illustrate ... -
Climate for Life - Our Planet November 2014
(UNEP, 2014)The interaction between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas are the focus of this issue of Our Planet. Protected areas are important carbon storage facilities, so their maintenance and expansion is a key ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials / Energy from End of Life (EoL) Tyres - Final Report
(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
(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 ... -
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS): Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties
(1994)Part I of this Addendum to the Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Nairobi, 1994) contains all of the reports on implementation received from Parties prior to and during that meeting. They ... -
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS): Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties
(1993)Part I of this Addendum to the Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Geneva, 1991) contains all of the reports received from Parties prior to and during that meeting. They have been reproduced ... -
The Emissions Gap Report 2017: A UN Environment Synthesis Report
(2017)The eighth UN Environment Emissions Gap Report provides an up-to-date scientific assessment of the global progress towards the emissions reductions required to be on track to meet the long-term goal of the United Nations ... -
Environmental and Safety Incidents concerning Tailings Dams at Mines: Results of a Survey for the Years 1980-1996
(1996)This study aims to identify and to annotate major incidents involving mine tailings dams since 1980. Although mining in some form takes place in almost every country, it was not feasible, within the time constraints of the ... -
Environmental Risk and Commercial Banks: Discussion Paper
(1994)The purpose of this discussion paper is to provide lenders -- particularly lenders that have recently begun to address environmental issues -- with a "snapshot" of some key issues. It begins with an overview of current and ... -
Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century – Final Report
(2019)This report describes how the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for ... -
The Global Climate System: Climate System Monitoring December 1988-May 1991
(1992)This report, the fourth biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provide.s a basis for the monitoring of global change. This monitoring supports ... -
Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Assessment Report for the UNEP International Resource Panel
(2016)This report finds that global material use has tripled over the past four decades, with annual global extraction of materials growing from 22 billion tonnes (1970) to 70 billion tonnes (2010). It also provides a new material ... -
Good Practices for Regulating Wastewater Treatment: Legislations, Policies and Standards
This report aims to provide an overview of wastewater legislation adopted by a range of developed and developing countries. -
Greening Universities Toolkit V2.0: Transforming Universities into Green and Sustainable Campuses: A Toolkit for Implementers - Advance Copy
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2014)The objective of this Toolkit is to inspire, encourage and support universities to develop and implement their own transformative strategies for establishing green, resource-efficient and low carbon campuses. It will provide ... -
Informing climate-resilient development: the application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in PACC programme - experiences and lessons learned in the application of CBA to PACC demonstation projects (PTR2)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)This report has been developed to summarise and communicate the key outputs and learnings of the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) work programme as part of the Global Environment Facility's Special Climate Change Fund (GEF-SCCF) ... -
Informing climate-resilient development: the application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in PACC programme - experiences and lessons learned on capacity building (PTR1)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)This report sets out the evaluation findings of the capacity-building components of the PACC CBA work programme. A separate report, PACC Technical Report no. 2, sythesises the CBA reports completed under the work programme, ... -
Integrated Management of Watersheds in Relation to Management and Conservation of Nearshore Coastal and Marine Areas in the East Asian Seas Region: Phase 1 - Assessment of Effects of River Discharges of Sediments, Nutrients and Pollutants on Coastal Wetlands, Seagrass Beds and Coral Reefs; A Regional Overview – RCU/EAS Technical Reports Series No. 13
(1997)This document synthesizes the national inventories and synopses in four thematic overviews on coral reefs, seagrass beds, coastal wetlands, and watersheds and attempts to focus on the linkages between the sources of SNP ...