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Ecological Footprint and Investment in Natural Capital in Asia and the Pacific
(Asian Development Bank (ADB)World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International), 2012)
The widespread loss of natural ecosystems and biodiversity is much more than a conservation issue. Natural ecosystems provide socially and economically valuable services--such as food and fiber resources, clean water and ...
LAO Environment Outlook 2012
(Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), Lao PDR, 2012)
This report finds that Lao PDR has 68 percent of its land covered by forests, significantly higher than the worlds average which stands at 30 percent. As Lao PDR is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, the sustainable ...
Infrastructure for low carbon transport in India: a case study of the Delhi-Mumbai dedicated freight corridor.
(UNEP, 2012)
This study is part of a larger research project on Promoting Low-Carbon Transport in India, a major initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), referred to as the Low Carbon Transport (LCT) project in ...
Status Report on The Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management
(2012)
The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development marks 20 years since the historic Earth Summit that was instrumental in laying the foundations and charting the course for contemporary sustainable development. ...
Climate change challenges for Africa: evidence from selected EU-funded research projects
(UNEP, 2012)
Africa, while currently responsible for a negligible amount of total global greenhouse gas emissions, is under significant threat from climate change. Changes in precipitation levels, likely increase in temperature extremes ...
Tunza vol. 10.2: new directions
(UNEP, 2012)
UNEP magazine for youth.
Tunza Vol. 10.3: Food: Waste not, want not
(UNEP, 2012)
UNEP magazine for youth.
Sustainable, resource efficient cities making it happen!
(UNEP, 2012)
This publication aims to formulate a broader framework of integration which is required for cities to transition to sustainable, resource efficient development and to realise green urban economic growth trajectories ...
Tunza: a way of life
(UNEP, 2012)
UNEP magazine for youth.
Feed-in tariffs and a policy instrument for promoting renewable energies and green economies in developing countries
(UNEP, 2012)
This report is intended as a resource for policy makers in developing countries to make informed policy decisions about the whether, when and how of FITs and to support nationally appropriate policy measures to scale up ...