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UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
(2016)
The Compendium presents a compilation of laws and regulations from around the world, that have been found innovative and creatively promoting green economy. It highlights the innovative provisions which promote resource ...
Review of Existing Water Quality Guidelines for Freshwater Ecosystems and Application of Water Quality Guidelines on Basin Level to Protect Ecosystems: Technical background document for theme 1: “Water Quality and Ecosystem Health”
(2014)
The purpose of this study is to identify and review existing Water Quality Guidelines (WQGs) that protect the health of (water) ecosystems and their respective mechanisms like institutional arrangements, processes, ...
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 ...
Fiji National Report on Progress in implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for FurtherImplementation (MSI) of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA);2010 2012
(Fijian Government, 2013)
The United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in2012 (known as Rio+20) called for the convening in 2014 of a third internationalconference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The ...
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 ...
The PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change - Summary
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2013)
The PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change provides a framework for considering the full range of approaches to VIA assessment. It aims to help professionals such as researchers, ...
Saint Vincent and The Grenadines - National Report for Third International Conference
(Ministry of Health Wellness and the Environment, 2013)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) as an active member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organization of East Caribbean States (OECS), endeavors to fulfill all of the obligations and reporting requirements to these ...
Imagining a sustainable financial system
(2016)
This paper has been developed as the framing paper for the Research Convening on Design Options for a Sustainable Financial System, which the UNEP Inquiry and CIGI held on 2-3 December 2014 in Waterloo, Canada. The workshop ...
Definitions and Concepts: Background Note. Inquiry Working Paper 16/13
(2016-09)
This paper provides an initial mapping of existing practice in G20 and other countries and, where relevant internationally, highlights areas of convergence and difference, as well as distinctions between green, climate, ...