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L'industrie: un partenaire pour le developpement durable
(2002)
This UNEP report documents sector-specific progress in implementing Agenda 21, building on the 22 industry-driven sector.
Atlas of Our Changing Environment: Arab Region
(UNEP, 2013)
Increasingly, and through satellite images, we see stark evidence of the impact human activities are having on the planet. Viewing the Earth from this remarkable range and scale allows us to better comprehend the environmental ...
Report on the Latin American and Caribbean initiative for sustainable development (ILAC): five years after it was adopted
(UNEP, 2004)
Working document for both preparatory meeting of high level experts and the ministerial segment
Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable and Poverty Eradication
(2011)
This report demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a new engine of growth
Comprehensive options assessment for sustainable development of infrastructure
(UNEP, 2012)
Comprehensive Options Assessment (COA) can play a critical role towards sustainable development by ensuring that societal needs are met by the most appropriate solutions with minimum impact to the environment. Thus ...
Water in a Green Economy
(UNEP, 2011)
This chapter identifies the contributions that water can play in assisting a transition to a green economy. It makes the case for early investment in water management and infrastructure to make greater use of biodiversity ...
The use of economic instruments in environmental policy: opportunities and challenges
(UNEP, 2004)
This report seeks to help policy makers, especially in the developing world, to identify, evaluate and apply economic instruments to address a country's environmental problems within its national and local circumstances. ...
Pro-poor tourism: harnessing the world's largest industry for the world's poor
(UNEP, 1997)
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries, generating an estimated 11%1 of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employing 200 million people and transporting nearly 700 million international travellers per year a ...
Sustainable development and the future of mineral investment
(UNEP, 2000)
The book aims to reach a wide audience or readers to help explore and analyse how the principles of sustainable development can be extended to mineral enterprises. The content of the book has been maintained at mainly a ...
From conflict to sustainable development-assessment of environmental hot spots: Serbia and Montenegro
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)
This report is not a comprehensive list of ‘hot spots' but the independent review of the Programme's work and an assessment of the priorities for the future at the sites and municipalities visited.