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State of play for sustainable buildings in India
(UNEP, 2010)
This report on the
Publicly backed guarantees as policy instruments to promote clean energy
(UNEP, 2010)
This report focuses on investment guarantees, assessing different types of publicly backed guarantee structures at various stages of product and technology innovation and deployment, and examining the experience of public ...
Ecosystems and human well-being: El Maghara, Northern Sinai, Egypt
(UNEP, 2010)
This assessment report is part of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. This initiative is a landmark in endeavour to understand and to formulate a decisive response among decision makers
UNEP in China: building back betterUNEP 在中国: 重 建 更 好
(UNEP, 2010)
As the United Nations system's designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global level, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) was requested by the Government of the People's Republic of China to lend ...
Sustainable travel in the United Nations
(2010)
This report seeks to provide guidance on what UN and organizations can do to improve sustainability of their travel, and in particular how to reduce their travel related climate footprints. The report provides an overall ...
Guidelines on education policy for sustainable built environments
(UNEP, 2010)
The outcome of this synthesis is a suite of learning aims, strategies and case-study curricula that can empower people to transform cities, towns and villages into eco-settlements. The framework also guides and informs the ...
Connecting the dots: biodiversity, adaptation, food security and livelihoods
(UNEP, 2010)
Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, provides millions of people with livelihoods besides helping to ensure food security and is a rich source of both traditional medicines and modern pharmaceuticals.
UN-REED programme: 2009 year in review
(2010)
At the global level, the UN-REDD Programme made a number of significant contributions in the area of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), engagement of Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society in REDD+ activities, ...
Building the Foundations for Sustainable Nutrient Management. A publication of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management
(2010)
This booklet focuses on the use, effects and management of two key nutrients - nitrogen and phosphorous. Together they play an important role in the global and local sustainable development agendas. On the one hand, their ...
Africa water Atlas
(UNEP, 2010)
This Atlas is a visual account of Africa's endowment and use of water resources, revealed through 224 maps and 104 satellite images as well as some 500 graphics and hundreds of compelling photos. However the Atlas is more ...