Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "Brazil"
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2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement
(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 ... -
Actions on Air Quality: Policies & Programmes for Improving Air quality around the World
(UNEP, 2016)This publication provides a snapshot of the progress being made to adopt and implement key actions that can significantly improve air quality. -
Air Quality Management and Assessment Capabilities in 20 Major Cities
(1996)This report assesses the components required for effective air quality management: the information inputs which are required for decision-making; how these inputs are used and how to measure their comprehensiveness, ... -
Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development: the coming financial climate: The inquiry’s 4th progress report
(UNEP, 2015)Across the world, a growing number of governments, regulators, standard-setters and market actors are starting to incorporate sustainability factors into the rules that govern the financial system. The Inquiry was established ... -
Annex C - UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019
(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 ... -
Apell Worldwide
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1995)Following various technological accidents in both highly industrialised and industrialising countries which resulted in adverse impacts on the environment, the United Nations Environment Programme Industry and Environment ... -
The Application of Economic Instruments in Environmental Policies in Brazil, China and South Korea: A Synthesis Report
(1997)The motivation behind the growing interest in economic instruments in Brazil, China and South Korea, as in other developing countries, has been to some extent similar to that of OECD countries but with the added urgency ... -
Brazil : National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) Status and Synergies among MEAs
(2016-03-15)Status of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) preparation -
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
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Case Studies on Tailings Management
(1998)With the cooperation of a large number of experts, ICME has compiled this collection of case studies of tailings management practices in operations in many parts of the world. The first section provides the reader with an ... -
Challenges and Strategies for Implementing the Ecosystem Approach to Human Health in Developing Countries: Reflections from Regional Consultations
(2001)This publication is devoted to promote the Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health concept and to disseminate the main conclusions of three international consultations held in 1999 and 2000 and sponsored by multiple international ... -
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 ... -
Climate Crisis: The Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies
(1987)Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland, organized and financed by the United Nations Environment ... -
Como o consumo orienta o uso da terra
(2014)O Painel Internacional de Recursos foi criado em 2007 para fornecer avaliações independentes, científicas do uso sustentável dos recursos naturais e os impactos e dos impactos do uso dos recursos ao longo de todo o ciclo de vida. -
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 ... -
Compras Sustentáveis & Grandes Eventos: A avaliação do cicl
(2015)Para além do entretenimento e da diversão, a grandeza de eventos esportivos e culturais tem poder de mobilizar pessoas, negócios e iniciativas de governo em prol de oportunidades econômicas, sociais e ambientais. A conexão ... -
Ecoinovação nos Pequenos Negócios
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Economic Instruments for Environmental Management: A Worldwide Compendium of Case Studies. Environmental Economics Series No. 25
(1998)One of the most striking features of this collection of case studies is the diversity of environmental problems which have been targetted by these policy instruments, including air and water pollution, packaging, deforestation, ... -
Economic Values and the Environment in the Developing World - Environmental Economics Series No 14
(1994)This volume assesses the state of the art in applying economic valuation techniques to environmental problems in developing countries. It is in fulfilment of a contract between the United Nations Environment Programme ...