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Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20 (1992-2012)
(UNEP, 2011)
This innovative publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major global environmental, economic and social changes since 1992. The numbers tell the story of how, in twenty years, the world has changed ...
Green growth, resources and resilience: environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2012)
This report describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and climate change, and increased risk and ...
Sustainable consumption and production for poverty alleviation
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2012)
This paper explores the type and quality of linkages between the objective of achieving sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns, and those of poverty alleviation and sustainable development. The paper constructs ...
Global Environment Outlook 5 (GEO 5): Environment for the Future We Want
(2012)
In 1995, in support of UNEPs unique mandate within the UN system to keep under review the world environmental situation, (GA resolution 2997 of December 1972), the UNEP Governing Council requested a new, comprehensive ...
Guidance manual for the regulating services of ecosystem
(UNEP, 2011)
This manual is directed towards practitioners in the field of environmental economics, and designed as a supporting tool for estimating the economic value of regulating services.
Africa water Atlas
(UNEP, 2010)
This Atlas is a visual account of Africa's endowment and use of water resources, revealed through 224 maps and 104 satellite images as well as some 500 graphics and hundreds of compelling photos. However the Atlas is more ...
Our Planet: bridging gaps, are you?
(UNEP, 2012)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development.
Blue carbon: first level exploration of blue carbon in the Arabian Peninsula
(UNEP, 2012)
Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arabian ...
Tunza vol. 8.3: resource use
(UNEP, 2010)
UNEP magazine for youth.