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Enhancing information for renewable energy technology deployment in Brazil, China and South Africa
(UNEP, 2012)
This report documents crucial information to support deployment of renewable energies in three key emerging markets - Brazil, China and South Africa - and provides information for policy-making aimed at supporting renewable ...
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 ...
Near-term climate protection and clean air benefits: actions for controlling short-lived climate forcers
(UNEP, 2011)
This report addresses the mitigation of short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) and its key role in air pollution reduction, climate protection and sustainable development. SLCFs are substances in the atmosphere that contribute ...
Towards a global tree conservation atlas: mapping the status and distribution of the world's threatened tree species
(UNEP, 2016)
This summary document outlines the need for spatial data on tree species as a tool for conservation action. It introduces plans for a tree species mapping programme that will build on the forest mapping information management ...
Feed-in tariffs and a policy instrument for promoting renewable energies and green economies in developing countries
(UNEP, 2012)
This report is intended as a resource for policy makers in developing countries to make informed policy decisions about the whether, when and how of FITs and to support nationally appropriate policy measures to scale up ...
Green growth, resources and resilience: environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2012)
This report describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and climate change, and increased risk and ...
Global Environment Outlook 5 (GEO 5): Environment for the Future We Want
(2012)
In 1995, in support of UNEPs unique mandate within the UN system to keep under review the world environmental situation, (GA resolution 2997 of December 1972), the UNEP Governing Council requested a new, comprehensive ...
Visions for change: recommendations for effective policies on sustainable lifestyles, country papers
(UNEP, 2011)
Visions for Change is a publication aimed at providing recommendations to develop efficient sustainable lifestyles policies and initiatives based on the results of the Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles (GSSL) to ...
Visions for change: recommendations for effective policies on sustainable lifestyles
(UNEP, 2011)
This publication provides recommendations to develop efficient sustainable lifestyles policies and initiatives based on the Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles (GSSL). It is aimed at policy-makers and all relevant ...
Biodiversity: Our Life - Our Planet May 2010
(UNEP, 2010)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine.