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Capacity building for sustainable development: an overview of UNEP environmental capacity development initiatives
(UNEP, 2002)
This publication details the broad scope of UNEP's capacity building for wise environmental management.
Climate change and sustainable development beyond Kyoto
(UNEP, 2002)
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) is likely to see the Kyoto Protocol finally coming into force. While this will be a moment to celebrate, there is no cause to be complacent. Although a step in the right ...
Striving for good governance in urban areas: the role of local agenda 21s
(UNEP, 2001)
One of the most significant innovations in addressing urban environmental problems in recent years has been the emergence of a new kind of city-wide initiative to address environmental problems the Local Agenda 21. Although ...
Forests in sustainable development: a quick report card on progress since RIO
(UNEP, 2002)
Initiatives that treat forestry as a "sector" seem to be increasingly prone to failure. Forests are resources that other sectors use, in many different and often competing ways, to produce both public and private goods and ...
Implementing the RIO conventions: implications for the South
(UNEP, 2002)
This paper reviews the implications of implementing the Rio Conventions for Southern countries and identifies key challenges for the future, focusing in particular on issues and challenges that are common to the three Rio ...
Post-conflict environmental assessment of Macedonia
(UNEP, 2001)
Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment
Environment and human rights: a new approach to sustainable development
(UNEP, 2001)
This paper examines the background to current discussions on Environmental and Human Rights. It has been produced by ANPED, the Northern Alliance for Sustainability, a network of NGOs in all parts of the Northern hemisphere, ...
Substance register: a guide to the organisation and use of chemical information
(UNEP, 2000)
This guide is an aid for companies that are going to build up a Substance Register, or want to utilise the possibilities of a Substance Register.
Depleted uranium in Serbia and Montenegro: post-conflict assessment in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(UNEP, 2002)
The potential environmental risks posed by Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons have been a widely debated issue. In autumn 2001, as a follow-up to its earlier work on DU in Kosovo, UNEP organized a scientific field mission to ...
GEO Year Book 2003
(UNEP, 2003)
The GEO Year Book is UNEPs response to this GC/GMEF decision. It is based on comprehensive tracking at global and regional level of issues and developments as they unfolded during the year, and collaboration between UNEP ...