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UNEP Year Book 2014: Emerging issues in our global environment
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)
Ten years after the first Year Book in this series appeared, a special e-book anniversary edition – UNEP Year Book 2014 – presents a fresh look at ten issues highlighted over the past decade. This UNEP Year Book 2014 takes ...
Building inclusive green economies: success stories from South-South Cooperation
(UNEP, 2013)
This report shows how South-South Cooperation is playing a key role to identify solutions to sustainable development challenges, as well as delivering new ideas and resources to advance the global transformation to an ...
Sustainable, resource efficient cities making it happen!
(UNEP, 2012)
This publication aims to formulate a broader framework of integration which is required for cities to transition to sustainable, resource efficient development and to realise green urban economic growth trajectories ...
UNEP science strategy 2011-2013
(UNEP, 2011)
The science strategy addresses the need to strengthen the scientific base of UNEP and to reinforce its work on the science-policy interface. The Strategy has four overarching goals covering the areas of emerging issues, ...
Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20 (1992-2012)
(UNEP, 2011)
This innovative publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major global environmental, economic and social changes since 1992. The numbers tell the story of how, in twenty years, the world has changed ...
Green growth, resources and resilience: environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2012)
This report describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and climate change, and increased risk and ...
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.
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 ...