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Environmental indicators for North America
(UNEP, 2006)
This report sets out a methodology for selecting and developing potential indicators to portray changes in the environments shared by Canada and the United States.
Challenges to international water: regional assessments in a global perspective
(UNEP, 2006)
The Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) is a holistic, globally comparable assessment of the world's transboundary waters that recognises the inextricable links between the freshwater and the coastal marine ...
Advancing sustainable consumption in Asia: a guidance manual
(UNEP, 2005)
This manual provides practical guidance to governments in Asian countries on implementation of the sustainable consumption section of the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection. Using a question and answer format, the guide ...
Lake chad basin;GIWA Regional assessment 43
(UNEP, 2004)
This report presents the results of the Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) of the transboundary waters of the Lake Chad Basin. This and the subsequent chapter offer a background that describes the impetus behind ...
Environmental assessment of Ogoniland
(UNEP, 2011)
A major new independent scientific assessment, carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), shows that pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the region has penetrated further and deeper than ...
Africa Environment Outlook 3: our environment, our health
(UNEP, 2013)
The Third Africa Environment Outlook (AEO-3), analyses the importance of, and interlinkages between, health and environment and the opportunities and synergies that might be derived from intensified collaboration between ...
Review of small cetaceans: distribution, behaviour, migration and threats. Regional Seas reports and studies no. 177
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2005)
This reference book is intended for experts in the field of marine biology, students, and conservationists as well as for interested laypersons. No comparable encyclopedia on whales has been published so far. With the ...
Hazardous Waste Storage and Disposal in the South Pacific: Appendices - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 048
(1985)
Regional Seas Reports and Studies by UNEP
UNEP handbook for drafting laws on energy efficiency and renewable energy resources
(UNEP, 2007)
With its emphasis on adaptation to local country needs and conditions, this handbook describes key environmental and implementation issues associated with efficiency and renewable energy resources, presenting legislative ...
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 ...