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Your Planet Needs You: Practical Action - Our Planet May 2009
(2009)
World Environment Day (WED) is your day — an occasion for the public to demonstrate, by practical and inspiring grass roots action that positive environmental change is alive and kicking in villages, towns and cites across ...
Vietnam assessment report on climate change
(UNEP, 2009)
The report shows that the trend of recent climate change in Viet Nam is beyond the level of natural change. Temperatures have increased by 0.05-0.20?C and sea level has increased by 2-4 cm per decade in the last 50 years. ...
The Uganda atlas: evidence of Uganda's changing environment
(UNEP, 2009)
The Uganda Atlas of Our Changing Environment, prepared by the National Environmental Management Authority of Uganda, provides extensive scientific evidence of Uganda's changing environment. Modelled after Africa: Atlas of ...
Life cycle management: how business uses it to decrease footprint, create opportunities and make value chains more sustainable
(UNEP, 2009)
This publication can be used by company in house experts and non-specialist managers as well as company suppliers in order to learn how to apply life cycle management practices throughout the value chain. This is a very ...
Common carbon metric for measuring energy use and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from building operations
(UNEP, 2009)
Leading experts from around the world have, through extensive international cooperation, developed a universal method of measuring a building's carbon footprint. Supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, this ...
Sustainable Transport on the Right Track - Our Planet September 2009
(UNEP, 2009)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine.
Global Green New Deal - Policy Brief
(2009)
This report proposes recommendations, objectives and suggestions for implementing a GGND as a response to the multiple crises the world is now facing. UNEP splits its proposals into three categories targeted stimulus ...
Green Economy: The New Big Deal - Our Planet February 2009
(2009)
Globalisation does not just spread economic ups — and the current deep downs — rapidly across the globe. It can do the same for compelling and transformational ideas. As ministers gather in Nairobi for the Governing Council, ...
Integrated policymaking for sustainable development: a reference manual
(UNEP, 2009)
This manual draws on recent advances in public policy science as well as the decades-long experience of UNEP and other organizations in the field of sustainability-motivated policy assessment.
Marine litter: a global challenge
(2009)
This report provides an overview of the status of marine litter in UNEP's assisted Regional Seas, and highlights the amounts, main sources, impacts, and economics of marine litter, and discusses legislation, policies, ...