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Global Environment Outlook 5 for local government: solving global problems locally
(UNEP, 2012)
This report provides an assessment of the state and trends of the global environment in relation to internationally agreed goals
The business case for the green economy: sustainable return on investment
(UNEP, 2012)
This publication makes the business case showing the tremendous opportunities that business can capitalize on by transitioning to a more resource efficient Green Economy. The Business Case for the Green Economy is ...
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.
GEO-5 summary for policy makers
(UNEP, 2012)
This report is a summary for policy makers. It highlights the findings of the fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) report.
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. ...
Global Environment Outlook 5 (GEO 5): Environment for the Future We Want
(2012)
In 1995, in support of UNEPs unique mandate within the UN system to keep under review the world environmental situation, (GA resolution 2997 of December 1972), the UNEP Governing Council requested a new, comprehensive ...
Tunza vol. 9.4: the Green Economy
(UNEP, 2012)
UNEP magazine for youth.