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Guidance manual on value transfer methods for ecosystem services
(UNEP, 2013)
The purpose of this guidance manual is to show how the value of ecosystem services can be estimated and incorporated into decision making. Specifically, it is designed to help a broad audience of conservation managers, ...
The clean energy voyage
(UNEP, 2013)
The Clean Energy Voyage explores the rapid progress with clean energy technologies, policies and projects over the past decade, and explores the many myths about the potential for a global economy powered by clean energy. ...
Community protocols for environmental sustainability: a guide for policymakers
(UNEP, 2013)
This guide has been written to help policymakers and other stakeholders understand what community protocols are, why they are important, and how they can support their development and recognition within formal environmental ...
Building inclusive green economies: success stories from South-South Cooperation
(UNEP, 2013)
This report shows how South-South Cooperation is playing a key role to identify solutions to sustainable development challenges, as well as delivering new ideas and resources to advance the global transformation to an ...
Are you a green leader? Business and biodiversity making the case for a lasting solution
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2010)
Produced jointly between UNEP-WCMC and UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, this document reviews the business case for biodiversity
WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: selected pollutants
(WHO, 2010)
This book presents WHO guidelines for the protection of public health from a number of chemicals commonly present in indoor air. The substances considered benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, naphthalene, nitrogen ...
Sand, Rarer than One Thinks: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - March 2014
(2014)
Sand and gravel are mined world-wide and account for the largest volume of solid material extracted globally. Formed by erosive processes over thousands of years (John, 2009), they are now being extracted at a rate far ...
Review of the Kubuqi Ecological Restoration Project: A Desert Green Economy Pilot Initiative
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2015)
A key element of the Rio+20 declaration was the agreement of countries to consider green economy as one of the important tools available for achieving sustainable development and eradicating poverty. Deserts perhaps pose ...
AMAP Assessment 2013: Arctic Ocean Acidification
(AMAP, 2013)
This assessment report presents the results of the 2013 AMAP Assessment of Arctic Ocean Acidification (AOA). This is the first such assessment dealing with AOA from an Arctic-wide perspective, and complements several ...
African Environment Outlook-3 (AEO-3) - Summary for policy makers
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2013)
The current issue (AEO-3) focuses on the linkages between environment and health, largely because of the recognition that environmental factors contribute about 28 per cent of Africa's disease burden. This disease burden ...