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Water in a Green Economy
(UNEP, 2011)
This chapter identifies the contributions that water can play in assisting a transition to a green economy. It makes the case for early investment in water management and infrastructure to make greater use of biodiversity ...
Luxembourg Report on Sustainable Governance Indicators
(2014)
For more than three decades, Luxembourg’s GDP growth rate as well as rate of job creation was ranked among the top performers in the European Union. Yet both have since decreased considerably and during the review period, ...
State of the Environment Report: Charts and Figures - Portugal
(Portuguese Environment Agency, 2012)
Portugal State of the Environment Report 2012, Charts and Figures.
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 ...
MDG Report 2014: Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals
(2014)
African Member States have made remarkable progress towards achieving the MDGs despite difficult initial conditions. Indeed, previous MDG Progress Reports for Africa have shown that when effort and initial conditions are ...
Environment Operational Directions 2013–2020
(Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2013)
In the context of Strategy 2020 and in the follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), ADB prepared the report Environment Operational Directions, 2013–2020. The report aims to provide ...
Pacific Integrated Island Management : principles, case studies and lessons learned
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)
This document is supported by an illustrated synthesis and electronic materials for use in communicating and promoting use of Integrated Island Management approaches. These products are designed to raise awareness of ...
Perspectivas del medio ambiente urbano - GEO Córdoba
(Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) para el Municipalidad de Córdoba, 2010)
Córdoba, apoyada por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) inició un proceso participativo en el marco del ambicioso proyecto de evaluaciones ambientales integrales denominado GEO (Global ...
An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in the Caribbean
(United Nations (UN) - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2013)
The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana, ...