Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 113
Indicators for a resource efficient and green Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2015)
This report reveals the patterns and the evolution of natural resource use in Asia and the Pacific region over the last 40 years. The analysis shows that resource use in the region is both inefficient and unsustainable. ...
Environmental dispatches: Reflections on challenges, innovation and resilience in Asia-Pacific
(UNEP, 2015)
This publication “Environmental Dispatches: Reflections on Challenges, Innovation and Resilience in Asia-Pacific” brings together some of these stories. The APFED Showcase Programme offered the chance for journalists in ...
Plastic in Cosmetics: Are We Polluting the Environment through our Personal Care?
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
This paper focuses on the emerging issue of plastic particles in personal care and cosmetic product (PCCP) formulations as a possible source of micro-sized plastic litter. Known as ‘microbeads’, when used in PCCPs, these ...
Values Based Banking: Bringing the Voice of the Citizen into Finance
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
Today’s financial system is in many ways too large, too complex, and too removed from the real economy. It has become focused on short--‐term profit maximisation, it does not pay enough attention to social and environmental ...
Sustainable Consumption and Production: a Handbook for Policymakers
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
This Handbook is an output of UNEP’s work towards the implementation of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). This global edition is based on a pilot edition for Asia and the ...
Sourcebook of Opportunities for Enhancing Cooperation among the Biodiversity Related Conventions at National and Regional Levels
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
The Sourcebook focuses on what can be achieved through cooperation among those implementing the Biodiversity-related Conventions at national and regional levels. It provides practical examples, checklists, lessons learnt ...
The Value of Everything
(, 2015)
Discussions regarding the global financial system often happen without a complete and robust understanding of the total value, impact and relevance of all stocks and flows. Indeed, even the “Value of Everything” is not ...
Policy Coherence of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Natural Resource Perspective
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim, by 2030, to end human deprivation worldwide. They represent a coherent, collective vision of a better future for all and provide a framework by which progress towards this ...
The Future of the Bornean Orangutan: impacts of change in land cover and climate
(2015)
Over the past century, orangutan populations in Southeast Asia have seen a very steep decline, driven to the brink of extinction by a host of man-made threats. Deforestation, illegal logging, the expansion of agro-industrial ...
New Rules for New Horizons: Report of the High Level Symposium on Reshaping Finance for Sustainability
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
Finance is the means by which we channel accumulated wealth into productive new activities to generate more real wealth and wellbeing.