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The Status of Climate Change Litigation : A Global Review
(2017-05)
This report provides judges, advocates, researchers,and the international community with an of-the moment survey of global climate change litigation, an overview of litigation trends, and descriptions of key issues that ...
The Adaptation Gap Report 2017:Towards Global Assessment
(2017)
The report explores key opportunities and challenges associated with assessing progress on adaptation at the global level. The report synthesizes information relevant for the ongoing work under the United Nations Framework ...
Green Technology Choices: The Environmental and Resource Implications of Low-Carbon Technologies - International Resource Panel Report
(2017)
This report provides a comprehensive global-scale assessment of the benefits, risks, and trade-offs of energy efficiency technologies and their combined effects when deployed alongside low-carbon electricity supply ...
2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement
(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 ...
Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape: Current Progress on Three Key Capacities for Climate Resilience
(2017-05)
The briefing paper then discusses the challenges – both conceptual and data-related – that this type of assessment faces and suggests ways of overcoming them. While gaining a better understanding of progress under the ...
Progress Report: Implementation of the “GEF GMP2 project” by RECETOX in 2017 - part 1: Training in Kenya - PCA/2015/UNEP, DTIE, Chemicals and Waste Branch/RECETOX
(2017)
This interim report is based on the agreement (PCA) signed between the Chemicals and Waste
Branch of the UNEP (hereafter referred to as “UNEP”) and Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in
the Environment (herea?er referred ...
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Marine Environment: An Emerging Issue
(2017)
Chemicals and compounds that have only recently been identified as potential threats to the
environment and are not yet widely regulated by national or international law are known as
emerging pollutants (EPs). They are ...
Green Industrial Policy and Trade: A Tool-Box
(2017)
The Environment and Trade Hub of UN Environment and UNIDO, under the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), cooperate to undertake Green Economy Industry and Trade Assessments (GITA) in various PAGE partner ...
Smoke on Water: Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation - A Rapid Response Assessment. Revised Edition
(2017)
More than 180 countries have peatlands but we are only just starting to understand their role in both climate change and our efforts to curb it. Peatlands cover less than three percent of the Earth’s surface but are the ...
Environmental Audit of the Sites Affected by the Dumping of Toxic Wastes from the Probo Koala
(2017)
On 19 August 2006, the ship Probo Koala off-loaded 528 cubic meters of liquid wastes in the port of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The material was transferred onto tanker trucks operated by a local contractor, and dumped in ...