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Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World: Findings from the International Resource Panel
(UNEP, 2012)
This synopsis highlights key findings from the following reports of the International Resource Panel: A) Priority products and materials: assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production; B) Decoupling ...
Grenada - National Report for Third International Conference
(United Nations Development Programme Subregional Officefor the OECS and Barbados, 2012)
Twenty years after the BPOA, the third International Conference on the SustainableDevelopment of SIDS will once again bring to fore the vulnerabilities anddevelopment needs of SIDS, with a view to identifying solutions and ...
Human Rights and the Environment Rio+20: Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
(2012-06)
This report seeks to make a substantive contribution to Rio+20 through an analysis of the interrelationship between human rights and the environment, both integral and indivisible elements of sustainable development. This ...
The Uganda Atlas - Evidence of Uganda's changing environment
(National Enviornment Management Authority (NEMA), 2012)
The Uganda Atlas of Our Changing Environment, prepared by the National Environmental Management Authority of Uganda, provides extensive scientific evidence of Uganda's changing environment. Modelled after Africa: Atlas of ...
Sahel atlas of changing landscapes: tracing trends and variations in vegetation cover and soil condition
(UNEP, 2012)
This atlas aims to illustrate a rigorous scientific basis for understanding processes of landscape change in the Sahel and describes landscapes climate vegetation and trends in vegetation and soil health. The atlas provides ...
Policy implications of warming permafrost
(UNEP, 2012)
This report describes the current and potential future status of permafrost and makes policy recommendations to address the impacts of permafrost degradation in a warming climate. Climate projections in the fifth Assessment ...
Arctic Report Card: update for 2012 (NOAA 2012)
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012)
What's new in 2012? New records set for low snow extent and sea ice extent, and for widespread ice sheet melting, despite air temperatures - a key cause of melting - being unremarkable relative to the last decade. Multiple ...
Ecosystem services and rural livelihoods in the Sahel: environmental accounting and wealth surveys
(UNEP, 2012)
This report uses environmental accounting in conjunction with data from the literature to evaluate the costs and benefits of different land use systems in the Sahel on environmental services and ultimately on the populations ...
Kenya wetland atlas
(UNEP, 2012)
Wetlands are among the most important ecosystems in Kenya. This atlas details many of Kenya's wetlands and the specific pressures facing them.
Compendium of Recycling and Destruction Technologies for Waste Oils
(UNEP, 2012)
Waste oil (used oil) is a growing hazardous waste stream closely linked with rapid industrialization and increased automobile use. Recycling and disposal of waste oils is feasible and will not only avoid the negative impacts ...