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Report on the measurement of sustainability: Indicators for wellbeing, sustainability and national resilience
(State of Israel. Ministry of Environmental Protection, 2015)
Progress Toward Sustainable Energy
(2015)
The first SE4All Global Tracking Framework (GTF 2013) established a consensus-based methodology and identified concrete indicators for tracking global progress toward the three SE4All objectives. One is to ensure universal ...
NOAA Arctic Vision and Strategy
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2011)
For centuries annual sea ice has protected the Arctic and its inhabitants. Now the Arctic, both on land and sea, is being transformed by significant warming. The melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is happening at a ...
Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water
(2015)
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the framework that has been a key part of efforts to build a better world for the past 15 years – challenged the global community to reduce by half the proportion of the population ...
Air quality in Europe: 2015 report
(2015)
The current report presents an overview and analysis of air quality in Europe, with a focus on the latest year for which there are available and processed data, namely 2013. It reviews the progress made towards meeting the ...
Lenders and Investors Environmental Liability: How Much is Too Much?
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)
This working paper presents an overview of Lender Environmental Liability (LEL) and Investor Environmental Liability (IEL) regimes and issues. Environmental harm and degradation is often irreparable. Therefore, our assumption ...
The State of City Climate Finance
(2015)
The infrastructure planning and financing decisions made today will determine the world’s climate and development outcomes for the next century. Taken together, these decisions will lead to the building of either low-emission, ...
Environmental, social and economic assessment of the fencing of the Aberdare Conservation Area - Executive Summary
(The Kenya Wildlife ServiceKenya Forest ServiceKenya Forests Working GroupUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Rhino Ark, 2011)
This study was carried out to assess the environmental, social and economic effects of the electrified fence around the Aberdare Conservation Area – a length of fence of nearly 400 km. The construction of the fence took ...
Global metrics for the environment: The Environmental Performance Index ranks countries‘ performance on high-priority environmental issues
(2016)
This Index builds on previous EPIs, innovating in key areas including, for the first time, human health metrics that capture health risks across all ages and genders instead of using child mortality as a proxy. The 2016 ...
Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health
(World Health Organization and Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2015)
The report synthesizes the available information on the most important inter-linkages