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Moving towards a climate neutral UN: summary
(2011)In October 2007 the UN Chief Executives Board approved the UN Climate Neutral Strategy, which committed all UN agencies, funds and programmes to move towards climate neutrality within the wider context of greening the UN. ... -
Moving towards a climate neutral UN: the UN systems footprint and efforts to reduce it
(2012)This report presents most recent analysis of the UN's performance in implementing the UN's Climate Neutral Strategy. It includes the details of the greenhouse gas emissions for 54 entities in 2010, as well as a breakdown ... -
Multidetection of Mycotoxins in Grain Extracts and Fungi Cultures
(1984)Plant products may incorporate, at the same time, several mycotoxins, for instance, aflatoxins, kojic acid and zearalenone or ochratoxins and citrinin or other combinations of mycotoxins. Their presence is stipulated by ... -
Multilateral Environmental Agreement: Negotiators Handbook - Second Edition :2007
(2007)In the Millennium Report, the Secretary-General of the United Nations highlighted that the support for the rule of law would be enhanced if countries signed and ratified international treaties and conventions but that many ... -
Multilateral Environmental Agreements: UNEP-hosted global coventions in 2015: United Nations Environment Programme: Annual Report 2015
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)UNEP hosted global conventions in 2015 -
Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network: Organisational Effectiveness Assessment - Volume I, December 2011
(2011)This report presents the results of an assessment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) conducted by the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN). MOPAN assesses the organisational ... -
Multilevel Course on the Safe Use of Pesticides and on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pesticide Poisoning
(1994)This course is presented to try to meet the need for widescale training in the safe and effective use of pesticides. PART I opens by outlining the structure of the course. It discusses the techniques that can be used in ... -
Multiple Pathways to Sustainable Development: Further Evidence of Sustainability in Practice
(2016)This report serves to build on that earlier publication by examining four additional approaches that have been adopted at the country or regional level: Circular Economy in the European Union (EU) and Germany, Natural ... -
Municipal Solid Waste Composition Analysis (Wet Season) - Juba, South Sudan
(2013-09)Supporting improved waste management to help contain the environmental impacts of development is one of UNEP’s main focus areas in South Sudan. UNEP has therefore undertaken a waste characterization exercise to support ... -
Municipal Solid Waste Open Dump Site - Juba, South Sudan: Preliminary Environmental Assessment
(2013-04)The purpose of this study is o assess the environmental impact of the practice of dumping municipal solid waste at the site near Jebel Kujur, so as to better inform decisions regarding remedial action. -
Municipal Solid Waste: Is it Garbage or Gold?: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - October 2013
(2013)Waste management has become an issue of growing global concern as urban populations continue to increase and consumption patterns change. The health and environmental implications associated with garbage disposal are ... -
My wish is to Promote Coffee Consumption among Producers in Rural Kenya: The Story of a Green to Grow Entrepreneur - Switch Africa Green
(2020)The story of a green to grow entrepreneur -
Mycological Studies into Mycotoxins Producers
(1984)Fungi make up a vast group of organisms comprising some 100,000 species among which we find both the well-known edible and poisonous mushrooms and also the microscopic species which constitute the majority. According to ... -
A Mycological Study of the Producers of Stachybotryotoxins and Fusariotoxins (T-2-Toxin, Zearalenone)
(1984)The Stachybotry alternans fungus is a cellulolytic saprophytes. Under natural conditions it well develops celluloserich substrates; straw, hay, grain, various weeds, and plant remains. It attacks cotton, hemp articles, ... -
Mycotoxicosis caused by Trichothecenes
(1984)Trichothecenes are a group of chemically related sesquiterpenoids produced by fungi such as Fusarium, Trichothecium, Trichoderma, Myrothecium, Stachybotrye and others. Recently, several trichothecene compounds were isolated ... -
Mycotoxins - Environmental Health Criteria 11
(1979)The present document contains an evaluation of health risks associated with four classes of mycotoxins. Aflatoxins are treated in most detail because more is known about them than about the other mycotoxins and because ... -
Mycotoxins as Natural Contaminants and Feeds - International Training Course : Training Activities on Food Contamination Control and Monitoring with Special Reference to Mycotoxins
(1984)Mycotoxins are natural contaminants of food products and feeds. It has become absolutely clear, since the discovery of aflatoxins, that under natural conditions it is not only peanuts but many other vegetable substrates ... -
Mycotoxins: Historical Background and Present-Day Notions Centre - International Training Course : Training Activities on Food Contamination Control and Monitoring with Special Reference to Mycotoxins
(Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1984)Mycotoxins secondary metabolites of microscopic fungi- are classed with the most dangerous contaminants of food products and fodders which occur in natural conditions. Mycotoxins are distinguished by high toxicity and many ... -
Mycotoxins: Immunity, Immunologic Methods of Study - International Training Course: Training Activities on Food Contamination Control and Monitoring with Special Reference to Mycotoxins
(Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1984)Mycotoxins is the name given to the toxic metabolites of certain species of microscopic fungi. The danger of mycotoxins is connected with the fact that the microscopic fungi producing them are very widespread in nature and ... -
Mycotoxins—Biogenesis and Mechanism of Action
(1984)The study of principles governing the biosynthesis of mycotoxins by microscopic fungi, the determination of the sequence of reactions of biotransformation of mycotoxins in on animal organism, and the decoding of molecular ...