Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "Dominican Republic"

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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 ...

    • An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in the Caribbean 

      United Nations (UN) - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (United Nations (UN) - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2013)
      The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana, ...

    • Celebracion de la Semana del Ozono del 11 al 16 de septiembre 2019, Republica Dominicana 

      El Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de la República Dominica (2019)
      2019 World Ozone Day activities in Dominican Republic

    • Efficient and Climate Friendly Cooling - [Factsheet] 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2018)
      The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)'s United for Efficiency and District Energy in Cities initiatives are accelerating the global transition to energy-efficient and climate-friendly cooling. Getting the right ...

    • Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States 

      United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)
      In 2013, UNEP identified priority emerging environmental issues that are of concern to small island developing states (SIDS). This report provides an overview of 20 issues critical to the sustainable development of SIDS. ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Global Environment Outlook: Small Island Developing States : Outlook - GEO SIDS 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2014)
      GEO SIDS Outlook is a contribution to the 2014 Third International UN Conference on Small Island Developing States, which has an overarching theme of the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States through ...

    • Haiti - Dominican Republic: Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone - Executive Summary 

      United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Development Programme (2013)
      This document provides up-to-date information and confirms the close relationship that exists between the state of transboundary natural resources, poverty, and recurring social conflicts.

    • Haiti - Dominican Republic: Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone  

      United Nations Development Programme (2013-06)
      This report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of an 18 month long assessment of the border between the two countries that share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola – Haiti, the poorest country in the ...

    • 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 ...

    • Integrated Watershed and Coastal Areas Management (IWCAM) Atlas 

      United Nations Environment Programme; The Global Environment Facility (GEF) (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)The Global Environment Facility (GEF), 2012)
      In the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), high population densities, combined with population growth, urbanization and increased development, particularly residential and tourist resort development, has led ...

    • Island Biodiversity – Island Bright Spots in Conservation & Sustainability 

      Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2014)
      Islands are taking action to effectively conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable livelihoods. Despite significant vulnerabilities facing islands, leaders of island countries and countries with islands have made ...

    • Índice de Vulnerabilidad ante Choques Climáticos: Lecciones aprendidas y sistematización del proceso y aplicación del IVACC en República Dominicana 

      United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Development Programme (2018)
      Lecciones aprendidas y sistematización del proceso y aplicación del Indice de Vulnerabilidad ante Choques Climáticos en República Dominicana

    • Marine Environmental Centres: Caribbean 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (1985)
      This publication is a contribution to the UNEP sponsored regional Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme adopted at the intergovernmental meeting convened by UNEP in Montego Bay. Jamaica, 6-8 April 1981***. ...

    • Overview and Hotspots Analysis of the Tourism Value Chain in Dominican Republic 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019)
      This document is a project report for the Dominican Republic. Its purpose is to support decision making of key stakeholders within the Transforming Tourism Value Chain’s project so as to prioritise feasible solutions to ...

    • Perspectiva del Medio Ambiente Urbano - GEO Santo Domingo 

      Consejo Nacional De Asuntos Urbanos (CONAU), República Dominicana (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) para el Consejo Nacional De Asuntos Urbanos (CONAU), República Dominicana, 2007)
      A principios del año 2005, se concretaron los acuerdos Inter-institucionales entre las diferentes entidades encargadas de producir el informe GEO Santo Domingo, el cual se desarrolla en la región metropolitana del Gran ...

    • Perspectivas de la Biodiversidad en Centroamérica 

      United Nations Environment Programme (PNUMA); Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD) (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA)Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD), 2003)
      El proyecto Perspectivas de la Biodiversidad en Centroamérica 2003 busca realizar un análisis regional que trascienda el análisis por países, aplicando el enfoque de ecosistemas recomendado desde el año 2000 por la Conferencia ...

    • Perspectivas del Medio Ambiente Urbano - GEO Centroamérica 

      United Nations Environment Programme (PNUMA); Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD) (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA)Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD), 2004)
      El presente informe es el primero sobre Centroamérica de la serie GEO, auspiciada por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), y su oficina regional para América Latina y el Caribe, con sede en ...

    • Plan de Manejo del Santuario de Mamíferos Marinos de los Bancos de La Plata y La Navidad: República Dominicana (Español solamente) 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2015)
      https://www.unenvironment.org/cep/events/conference-parties-cartagena-convention-cops/ninth-meeting-contracting-parties-cop-protocol