Browsing Publications and Documents by Topic "Environment under review"
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Can Television Tell the Environmental Story?: Report of the Seminar "Visual Media and the Environment" - CEP Technical Report 28
(1993)This paper highlights some of the major environmental issues or concerns in the Caribbean and indicate some of the steps towards dealing with them. This focus on environmental issues of prime concern to the Caribbean is ... -
Capacity Building for Integrated Environmental Assessment and Reporting :Training Manual Second Edition
(2000)This training manual and the accompanying training program have been prepared to meet the needs of partners for improved guidance and training during the production of GEO and other associated integrated assessment reports. ... -
Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living
(1991)The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new ethic, the ethic for sustainable living, and ... -
Changing Course: Real Estate - TCFD Pilot Project report and Investor Guide to Scenario-Based Climate Risk Assessment in Real Estate Portfolios
(2019)This report, specific to real estate investments, is a follow-on to the May 2019 Changing Course, published by UNEP FI and authored by Vivid Economics. That flagship report was the culmination of the Investor Pilot on TCFD ... -
Chemical Risk Assessment: Human Risk Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment - Training Module No. 3
(1999)There has been a dramatic increase in the use of chemicals in recent years, many of them new compounds and mixtures whose toxicological properties have not previously been studied and which might prove to be harmful to ... -
Childhood Exposure to Environmental Lead - MARC Report Number 34
(1986)Considerable attention has been given to evaluating the significance of environmental pollution by lead. It has long been known that lead in sufficient quantities is a neurotoxin, but whether general environmental sources ... -
Children and the Environment - The State of the Environment 1990
(1990)This report, issued as a joint contribution by UNEP and UNICEF, summarizes how children have been affected by environmental changes, and vice versa - and what can be done. Time is running out - but it is not yet too late. -
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy - A Global Assessment of the Links between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
(2012)CBO – Action and Policy provides the summary of a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodi- versity, and ecosystem services. Drawing on contributions from more than 120 scientists and policy-makers from ... -
Cleaner Production Worldwide - Volume II
(1995)Cleaner production is a broad term that encompasses the concepts of waste minimization, waste avoidance, pollution prevention and other similar terms. It includes initiatives such as better management and housekeeping, ... -
Cleaner Production: A Training Resource Package
(1996)This is a trainers support package, not a reference book. It does not give a systematic, comprehensive overview (there is not enough room to do this); rather, it focuses on some selected aspects that are central to the ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis - Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(2007)The Working Group I report focuses on those aspects of the current understanding of the physical science of climate change that are judged to be most relevant to policymakers. It does not attempt to review the evolution ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis; Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and ... -
Closing Data Gaps is Essential to Achieving the Environmental Dimension of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development - SDG Policy Brief No. 008 October 2019
(2019-10)The Sustainable Development Goals Policy Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change. The evidence provided builds on the scientific data and information hosted on Environment Live and is complemented by stories ... -
Co-operation for Environmental Protection in the Pacific - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 97
(1988)The Regional Seas Programme was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1974 in response to the selection of the oceans as a priority area by the UNEP Governing Council. It is a global programme ... -
Coastal and Marine Environmental Problems of the United Republic of Tanzania. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 106 - Annexes
(1989)The report consists of a summary describing specific coastal and marine environmental problems of the United Republic of Tanzania such as coral reef destruction, mangrove cutting, fisheries over-exploitation and unnecessary ... -
Company Environmental Reporting : A Measure of the Progress of Business & Industry Towards Sustainable Development - Technical Report No. 24
(1994)Corporate environment reports are quickly becoming a key channel for companies to communicate their environmental performance. Just as important, corporate environment reports are also becoming an effective tool to demonstrate ... -
Conceptual Framework for Marine Spatial Planning in The Mediterranean
(2018)As reported in the UNEP/MAP Mid-Term Strategy 2016-2021 (MTS), the Contracting Parties, at COP 18 recommended to strengthen MAP activities in the field of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP)1 in order to contribute to GES, ... -
Conclusions of Policy Effectiveness - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 18
(2019)The analysis in GEO-6 of environmental policies and their integration demonstrates the diversity of institutional and cultural frameworks in which policymaking takes place. The roles of law, values, administrative capacities, ... -
Conferenza ONU Sull' Ambiente Umano Stoccolma 1972
(1972)La presente pubblicazione, che raccoglie i testi piu significativi del dossier ONU in materia di difesa ambientate. -
Conservation and Wise Utilization of Tropical Forests : A Directory of Information Sources
(1980)The present directory on tropical forests represents a listing of some 350 institutions able to supply information to enquirers, on request and under mutually agreed terms, on one aspect or another of the following subjects ...