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Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World: Findings from the International Resource Panel
(UNEP, 2012)
This synopsis highlights key findings from the following reports of the International Resource Panel: A) Priority products and materials: assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production; B) Decoupling ...
Understanding Synergies and Mainstreaming among the Biodiversity Related Conventions : A Special Contributory Volume by Key Biodiversity Convention Secretariats and Scientific Bodies
(2016-09)
This multi-author volume is an attempt by the United Nations Environment to engage with the Heads of various biodiversity related conventions and Chairs of Scienti c Bodies of the conventions to understand the opportunities ...
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want
(2019)
The Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework is one type of systems approach that can be used to analyse how society is using natural resources and the various implications of this use. This report is ...
République Démocratique du Congo: Évaluation environnementale post-conflict
(2011)
Trois objectifs clefs ont été identifiés pour cette évaluation : 1. Établir une connaissance scientifique détaillée de l’état de l’environnement, des tendances et des enjeux stratégiques en RDC; 2. Stimuler les plans et ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment: Synthesis for Policy Makers
(2011)
UNEP’s post-conflict environmental assessment aims to provide a better understanding of the underlying challenges facing the DRC and to help identify and develop promising opportunities to support sustainable economic ...
Development of an Action Plan for the Environment Initiative of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): Health And Environment
(2003)
The thematic workshop on health and the environment for the finalization of the Action Plan for the Environment Initiative of the New Partnership for Africa's Development was held in Dakar, Senegal, 17-18 February 2003. ...
Environmentally Sound Management of Lake Erhai and the Xi'er River Basin
(2000)
This report is the integrated result of the investigations, analyses, and syntheses carried out in the area by relevant departments of the Country, in cooperation with international agencies. It reports on the outcome of ...
Sustainability Indicators:A Scientific Assessment - SCOPE 67
(Island Press, 2007)
This volume emerged as an outcome of the Assessment of Sustainability Indicators project, again implemented jointly by SCOPE and UNEP, together with the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental ...
UN Calls for Urgent Rethink as Resource Use Skyrockets
(2019)
Resource extraction has more than tripled since 1970, including a fivefold increase in the use of
non-metallic minerals and a 45 per cent increase in fossil fuel use. By 2060, global material use could double to 190 billion ...
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want - Scenarios Infographic
(2019)
Through a combination of resource efficiency, climate mitigation, carbon removal, and biodiversity protection policies, this report finds that it is feasible and possible to grow economies, increase well-being and remain ...