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UNEP handbook for drafting laws on energy efficiency and renewable energy resources
(UNEP, 2007)
With its emphasis on adaptation to local country needs and conditions, this handbook describes key environmental and implementation issues associated with efficiency and renewable energy resources, presenting legislative ...
Sustainable travel in the United Nations
(2010)
This report seeks to provide guidance on what UN and organizations can do to improve sustainability of their travel, and in particular how to reduce their travel related climate footprints. The report provides an overall ...
Industry and environment: big challenge for small business
(UNEP, 2003)
Industry and Environment is a periodical of the United Nations Environment Programme. Challenges and opportunities ◆ Tools and approaches ◆ SMEs as models ◆ Role of supply chains
Green economy: cities investing in energy and resource efficiency
(UNEP, 2011)
The Green Economy Report is compiled by UNEP's Green Economy Initiative in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide. It demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a ...
Moving towards a climate neutral UN: summary
(2011)
In October 2007 the UN Chief Executives Board approved the UN Climate Neutral Strategy, which committed all UN agencies, funds and programmes to move towards climate neutrality within the wider context of greening the UN. ...
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. ...
Forests in a Green Economy: A Synthesis
(2011)
This synthesis examines the critical role of forests in a green economy, and provides policy recommendations to radically transform the forest sector such that it can lead to sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Forests: Nature at Your Service - Our Planet June 2011
(UNEP, 2011)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine.
Global Biodiversity Outlook 3
(UNEP, 2010)
This Outlook presents some stark choices for human societies. On one hand it warns that the diversity of living things on the planet continues to be eroded as a result of human activities. The pressures driving the loss ...
The Emissions Gap Report: Are the Copenhagen Accord Pledges Sufficient to Limit Global Warming to 2c or 1.5c
(2010)
This publication aims to assess the following questions: are countries' pledges of action collectively consistent with and, if implemented, likely to achieve the 2C and 1.5C temperature goals If not, how big is the gap ...