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UNEP'S Mandate in Desertification Control
(1994)
UNEP's mandate for desertification control is based on almost twenty years of Governing Council and General Assembly Resolutions, frequently updated. These have been supplemented recently by resolutions of other groups ...
Report of the Expert Group Meeting Towards the Design for a Meta-Database for the Harmonization of Environmental Measurement : GEMS Report Series No. 10
(1991)
The purpose of assembling the Expert Group was to address the first of the identified long-term goals, that is, the establishment of a HEM metadatabase. The discussion paper, "A Metadatabase for Harmonization of Environmental ...
Urban Air Pollution - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No 4
(1991)
In almost all developing countries, meanwhile, urban air pollution is worsening. Rapidly growing cities, more traffic on roads, use of dirtier fuels, reliance on outdated industrial processes, growing energy consumption, ...
Waste Management Strategy: With special Emphasis on Minimisation and Resource Recovery - Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean Small Island Developing States
(1999)
This volume is part of a series of publications on waste management in SIDS prepared by the UNEP's Division of Environmental Policy Implementation. The publications were prepared as part of the UNEP project Integrated Waste ...
The Textile Industry and the Environment - Industry and Environment Technical Report No. 16
(1993)
This Technical Report aims to provide guidance on measures to prevent pollution and save raw materials through a cleaner production approach both at the conception stage and for ongoing operations. This document is intended ...
Water for Sustainable Development in Africa: Key Issues
(1995)
Part 1 of the following report focuses on the main objectives, targets and priority activities for Africa of the many Agenda 21 recommendations on waiter resources. It starts with a summary of the overall objective for ...
The Costs Benefits and Unmet Needs of Biological diversity in Kenya
(1992)
This Report is concerned with assessing the nature and extent of Kenya's biodiversity, examining why and in what ways it is being changed over time, what the reasons are for that change, what measures need to be taken to ...
Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Variations and Policy Responses in Brazil
(1992)
This study is an attempt to understand the direct and indirect interactions between climate and society in Brazil. A set of climate impact case studies were identified and experts were selected to undertake these assessments. ...
The Current State of International Environmental Law in Latin America and the Caribbean
(1993)
This document has been prepared on the basis of the study entitled "The Current State of International Environmental Law in Latin America and the Caribbean", prepared in collaboration with Mr. Alberto Székely, UNEP consultant. ...
The Contamination of Food
(1992)
The GEMS/Food monitoring programme aims not only to protect public health, but to promote confidence in the purity of foodstuffs through international information exchange on food contamination, and thus encourage international ...