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Measuring water use in a green economy
(2012)
Water is an essential resource for virtually all aspects of human enterprise, from agriculture via urbanization to energy and industrial production. Equally, the many uses for water create pressures on the natural systems. ...
Sustainable consumption and production for poverty alleviation
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2012)
This paper explores the type and quality of linkages between the objective of achieving sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns, and those of poverty alleviation and sustainable development. The paper constructs ...
Our Planet 40 years of WED
(UNEP, 2012)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine.
Integrated assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone: summary for decision makers
(UNEP, 2011)
This document summarizes findings and conclusions of the assessment report: Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone. The assessment looks into all aspects of anthropogenic emissions of black carbon ...
Green carbon, black trade: illegal logging, tax fraud and laundering in the world's tropical forests
(UNEP, 2012)
This report Green Carbon, Black Trade by UNEP and INTERPOL focuses on illegal logging and its impacts on the lives and livelihoods of often some of the poorest people in the world set aside the environmental damage. ...
Ready, willing and able: empowering countries to meet the climate challenge
(UNEP, 2011)
UNEP's work on climate change is shaped by the UNFCCC talks and outcomes and helps countries to respond to their needs under the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol
Visions for change: recommendations for effective policies on sustainable lifestyles, country papers
(UNEP, 2011)
Visions for Change is a publication aimed at providing recommendations to develop efficient sustainable lifestyles policies and initiatives based on the results of the Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles (GSSL) to ...
Visions for change: recommendations for effective policies on sustainable lifestyles
(UNEP, 2011)
This publication provides recommendations to develop efficient sustainable lifestyles policies and initiatives based on the Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles (GSSL). It is aimed at policy-makers and all relevant ...
State of play for sustainable buildings in India
(UNEP, 2010)
This report on the
Environmental assessment of Ogoniland
(UNEP, 2011)
A major new independent scientific assessment, carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), shows that pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the region has penetrated further and deeper than ...