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Balkan vital graphics
(UNEP, 2007)
Environmental protection is one of the areas where the Balkan countries still face a big challenge to catch up with their western neighbours. After the 1990s conflicts and the breakup of Yugoslavia, six new Balkan states ...
Environment and Security: Transforming Risks into Cooperation - The case of Eastern Europe: Belarus – Moldova – Ukraine
(UNEP, 2008)
This report is about the role and impact of environmental factors in securing human safety and sustained development of the eastern Caspian Sea region, including the parts of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan opening onto the ...
The UNEP-SEFI Public Finance Alliance
(UNEP, 2008)
Prepared in conjunction with the 2008 launch of the SEFI Public Finance Alliance. This document supports the establishment of an international platform for managers of public and publicly backed funds dedicated to building ...
Environmental indicators for North America
(UNEP, 2006)
This report sets out a methodology for selecting and developing potential indicators to portray changes in the environments shared by Canada and the United States.
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 ...
Industry and environment: big challenge for small business
(UNEP, 2003)
Industry and Environment is a periodical of the United Nations Environment Programme. Challenges and opportunities ◆ Tools and approaches ◆ SMEs as models ◆ Role of supply chains
Public venture capital study
(UNEP, 2008)
This report examines the clean energy venture financing landscape, focusing on the role of public sector-sponsored venture capital as a catalyst for private investment, filling funding gaps in the commercialization of clean ...
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 ...
After the Tsunami sustainable building: guidelines for South-East Asia
(UNEP, 2007)
The Tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 affected a dozen Indian Ocean countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India and Maldives, Malaysia and Myanmar, with a death toll reportedly exceeding 250,000 and ...
Sustainable Transport on the Right Track - Our Planet September 2009
(UNEP, 2009)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine.