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Nitrogen: Strategies for resolving an urgent environmental problem
(German Advisory Council on the Environment, 2015)
The excessive release of nitrogen compounds into the environment is one of the biggest problems of our time. Nitrogen compounds, such as nitrogen oxides and ammonia, pollute the environment and endanger human health in ...
Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Global Assessment
(International Maritime Organization (IMO), 2015)
The GESAMP assessment focuses on a category of plastic debris termed ‘microplastics’. These small pieces of plastic may enter the ocean as such, or may result from the fragmentation of larger items through the influence ...
Fighting Environmental Crime in Spain: A Country Report
(European Union, 2015)
In recent decades, as a consequence of the rising awareness of the damage caused by economic development to the environment, the Spanish legislator has resorted to using criminal law to protect the environment, first, ...
Technology, Finance and Statistics for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
(2015)
As this report points out, mostly the news is good. In 2001, it may have seemed a daunting task to halve the 1990 poverty rate − the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day. In fact Asia and the Pacific has ...
The Regional State of the Coast Report: Western Indian Ocean
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2015)
The Regional State of Coast Report for the western Indian Ocean (WIO) is the first comprehensive regional synthesis to provide insights into the enormous economic potential around the WIO, the consequential demand for ...
Financial Reform, Institutional Investors and Sustainable Development : A Review of Current Policy Initiatives and Proposals for Further Progress
(UNEP, 2015)
This paper provides perspectives and proposals on the relationship between institutional investors and sustainable development. It builds on a Discussion Paper prepared for a workshop hosted by the inquiry and CalPERS in ...
Achieving Zero Hunger
(2015)
Despite progress in recent decades, including the near achievement of the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of hungry people in the world by the end of 2015, about 795 million people – or around ...
Global Sustainable Development Report: Advanced Unedited Version
(2015)
The GSDR is the only comprehensive, global report on sustainable development. It brings together a broad range of existing scientific assessments and reviews global progress and future sustainable development pathways in ...
Global Goals and the Environment: Progress and Prospects
(2015)
The goal of this report is to take stock of progress toward all MDG-7 targets in all countries the MDGs applied to, and identify, where possible, lessons that will help with the formulation and implementation of goals to ...
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(2015)
Draft resolution referred to the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda by the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session.