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Sustainable Public Procurement: A Global Review - Final Report
(UNEP, 2013)
This report examines the state of sustainable public procurement policies and practices being undertaken by national governments worldwide in the last five years. The research included a comprehensive literature and desktop ...
Portfolio carbon: measuring, disclosing and managing the carbon intensity of investments and investment portfolios
(UNEP, 2013)
This publication provides a clear and compelling case for why and how investors and their service providers should start measuring, disclosing and reducing the GHG emissions associated with their investments and investment ...
Low carbon city: a guidebook for city planner and practitioners
(UNEP, 2013)
This guidebook is prepared to link the outputs from the national Low Carbon Transport assessment with the process of developing Low-carbon Comprehensive Mobility Plans (LCMP) within the cities. The primary audience for ...
Kiribati National Assessment Report On the Implementation of the BPOA, MSI+5, MDGs and Rio+20 for Sustainable Development in KIRIBATI
(Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED), 2013)
This National Assessment Report is the outcome of the stocktakingcarried outin May to June 2013 by two local consultants, commissioned by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. The stocktakingfocused on the ...
Financing for Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
(Division for Sustainable DevelopmentDepartment of Economic and Social AffairsUnited Nations, 2013)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is a term that first appeared at the 1992 United NationsConference on Environment and Development (UNCED) to focus the attention of the internationalcommunity on the unique characteristics ...
Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production: Priority Products and Materials
(2010)
This report focuses not on the effects of environmental pressure, but on its causes. It describes pressures as resulting from economic activities. These activities are pursued for a purpose, to satisfy consumption. ...
Préparation de la 3ème Conférence Internationale sur le Développement Durable des Petits Etats Insulaires en Développement: Rapport National de lUnion des Comores
(Rpublique Fdrale Islamique des Comores, 2014)
Lunion des Comores a pris part au plus haut niveaux, aux deux confrences internationales sur les petit Etats Insulaires en Dveloppement, tenues la Barbade en 1994 et Maurice en 2005. La premire valuation nationale sur ...
Drawing down N2O to protect climate and the ozone layer: a UNEP synthesis report
(UNEP, 2013)
This report addresses the benefits of drawing down nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. N2O is now the most significant ozone-depleting substance emission and the third most important greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere. ...
Water Hyacinth - Can its Aggressive Invasion be Controlled?: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - April 2013
(2013)
Invasive alien species are a major global challenge requiring urgent action. They are considered one of the key pressures on world’s biodiversity: altering ecosystem services and processes, reducing native species abundance ...
Infrastructure for low carbon transport in India: a case study of the Delhi-Mumbai dedicated freight corridor.
(UNEP, 2012)
This study is part of a larger research project on Promoting Low-Carbon Transport in India, a major initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), referred to as the Low Carbon Transport (LCT) project in ...