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Leadership now: UK companies and the global environmental challenge
(CDP Worldwide, 2014)
This report explores some of the key areas in which companies are addressing environmental issues, including those outlined in the AR5
An In-depth Look at the United Kingdom Integrated Permitting System
(US Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Innovation, 2008)
This report is the culmination of a two-year effort to research, assess, and document the United Kingdom (UK) integrated permitting system. The report is based on literature reviews and research along with site visits ...
Technology, Finance and Statistics for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
(2015)
As this report points out, mostly the news is good. In 2001, it may have seemed a daunting task to halve the 1990 poverty rate − the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day. In fact Asia and the Pacific has ...
MDG Report 2014: Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals
(2014)
African Member States have made remarkable progress towards achieving the MDGs despite difficult initial conditions. Indeed, previous MDG Progress Reports for Africa have shown that when effort and initial conditions are ...
State of the Environment Report, 1994 - Kiribati
(South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 1994)
When the Environment Unit of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Development was given the task of developing the National Environmental Management Strategy (NEMS), a key component of the process was to prepare ...
State of Environment Report - Tokelau
(South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 1994)
This State of the Environment Report includes all the environmental problems that have been identified to date in Takelau, as well as serve to illustrate the severity of some of these problems and how we may expect to ...
Pro-poor tourism: harnessing the world's largest industry for the world's poor
(UNEP, 1997)
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries, generating an estimated 11%1 of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employing 200 million people and transporting nearly 700 million international travellers per year a ...
Sustainable development and the future of mineral investment
(UNEP, 2000)
The book aims to reach a wide audience or readers to help explore and analyse how the principles of sustainable development can be extended to mineral enterprises. The content of the book has been maintained at mainly a ...
Asian Environment Outlook 2005: Making Profits, Protecting Our Planet: Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Performance in Asia and the Pacific
(Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2005)
This book is the second in the Asian Environment Outlook (AEO) series published by ADB. It centers on the critical missing ingredient in the pursuit of a sustainable future for Asia and the Pacific-that of a fully engaged ...
Environment Program: Progress and Prospects
(Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2009)
Environment Program: Progress and Prospects is a snapshot of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB’s) strategies and programs, loans and technical assistance projects with environmental sustainability as a theme. It also ...