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Desk study on the environment in Liberia
(UNEP, 2004)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) participated in the post-conflict UN Needs assessment mission to Liberia. The findings of this desk study draw on key environmental information obtained from the Liberian ...
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 ...
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 ...
Common carbon metric for measuring energy use and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from building operations
(UNEP, 2009)
Leading experts from around the world have, through extensive international cooperation, developed a universal method of measuring a building's carbon footprint. Supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, this ...
UNEP 2010 annual report
(UNEP, 2011)
The 2010 Annual Report catalogues the beginning of a new, strategic and transformational direction for UNEP as it began implementing its Medium Term Strategy (MTS) for 2010-2013 across six areas: Climate change
Manual for the refrigeration and air-conditioning technicians and engineers: post phase-out period of CFCs and beginning of phase-out of HCFCs
(UNEP, 2010)
The manual provides new approaches to prevent emissions of CFCs during the operation and servicing of equipment and catalogues steps to recycle the CFCs and retrofit the equipment. The manual also contains the guidelines ...
UNEP Year Book 2009
(UNEP, 2009)
The UNEP Year Book 2009 presents work in progress on scientific understanding of global environmental change, as well as foresight about possible issues on the horizon. The aim is to raise awareness of the interlinkages ...
2002 report of the flexible and rigid foams: technical options committee
(UNEP, 2003)
Historically, the blowing agent selection made by the foam plastics manufacturing industry was based heavily on CFCs. This was particularly the case in closed cell insulating foams. An assortment of CFCs and other ozone ...
2002 report of the methyl bromide: technical options committee (MBTOC)
(UNEP, 2002)
The Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee (MBTOC) was established by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer to identify existing and potential alternatives to methyl bromide ...
UNEP 2008 annual report
(UNEP, 2009)
This summary of UNEP's activities in 2008 provides an overview of the organization's contribution to the fight against climate change in a year in which unequivocal evidence established that global warming is the defining ...