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Application of the Sustainability Assessment of Technologies Methodology: Guidance Manual, Nov 2012
(UNEP, 2012)
When making decisions on investments, an economic consideration often takes precedence over environmental and social factors. This may lead to unsustainable decisions and investments. The SAT methodology guidance manual ...
Waste and Climate Change - Global Trends and Strategy Framework
(UNEP, 2010)
The sound management of waste can have substantial co-benefits for efforts to address climate change. As a first step to realize these co-benefits, this report seeks - To examine the potential of climate impacts and benefits ...
Seychelles National Report to the RIO+20 Conference
(Government of Seychelles, 2012)
The Seychelles National Report to the RIO+20 Conference represents more than 20 years of commitment to sustainable development which has transformed Seychelles to status of upper middle income country.
Millennium Development Goals Status Report 2013 Assessing Seychelles Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Seychelles, 2013)
The Republic of Seychelles is proud to present its third Millennium Development Goals Report. MDGs report indicates that Seychelles has achieved almost all the MDGs, especially those relating to education, health and social ...
Informing climate-resilient development: the application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in PACC programme - experiences and lessons learned on capacity building (PTR1)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)
This report sets out the evaluation findings of the capacity-building components of the PACC CBA work programme. A separate report, PACC Technical Report no. 2, sythesises the CBA reports completed under the work programme, ...
Pacific Environment and Climate Change Outlook
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2012)
The Pacific Environment and Climate Change Outlook Report 2012 clearly shows that the Pacific islands are increasingly being threatened in terms of food, water and livelihood security and calls on us all to step up and do ...
Global Assessment of Sand and Dust Storms
(2016)
The specific objectives of the assessment are to: 1) Synthesise and highlight the environmental and socio-economic causes and impacts of SDS, as well as available technical measures for their mitigation, at the local, ...
Health effects of black carbon
(WHO, 2012)
Black carbon is a good indicator of combustion-related air pollution, and was only recently recognized as a short-lived climate-forcer, which contributes to warming the Earth's atmosphere.This report presents the results ...
Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: 2010 Assessment
(UNEP, 2010)
This quadrennial Assessment was prepared by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) for the Parties to the Montreal Protocol. The Assessment reports on key findings on environment and health since the last full ...
Environment, religion and culture in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
Critical action is needed by the international community to address urgent and increasing environmental degradation, and related challenges of social and economic unsustainability. Religion and culture can significantly ...