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Nature-based Solutions: Sustainable Rice Landscapes Initiative
(2019)This initiative aims to increase resource use efficiency and reduce climate change and other environmental impacts through the sustainable transformation of rice-based landscapes, thereby strengthening farmer resilience ... -
Nature-Watch Baltic Report
(Estonian Fund for Nature, 2006)Nature-watch Baltic is an environmental education project for students. The main target group is 13-16-year old students but primary class students and even kindergarten kids have participated. It was launched by WWF Sweden ... -
Nauru - National Report for Third International Conference
(Government of Nauru, 2013)This report serves as a national input for Nauru for the 2014 SIDS Conference, the Pacific regional preparatory meeting and the Interregional preparatory meeting. The assessment includes a review of progress and gaps in ... -
Navigating a New Climate: Assessing Credit Risk and Opportunity in a Changing Climate - Outputs of a Working Group of 16 Banks Piloting the TCFD Recommendations Part 2: Physical Risks and Opportunities
(2018)This report aims to help banks begin to address the “Strategy” element of the TCFD recommendations, which requires forward-looking scenario-based assessments of risks and opportunities. TCFD outlines three recommended ... -
Navigating the Adaptation Challenge - Briefing Note 2
(2020)This Briefing Note introduces how resilience thinking, which considers interactions within a coupled socialecological system, can help to navigate the adaptation challenge and explores the use of ecosystems as part of the ... -
Near-term climate protection and clean air benefits: actions for controlling short-lived climate forcers
(UNEP, 2011)This report addresses the mitigation of short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) and its key role in air pollution reduction, climate protection and sustainable development. SLCFs are substances in the atmosphere that contribute ... -
Needs Assessment Guidance to develop National Plans for Domestic Wastewater Pollution Reduction
(UNEP, 2003)The role and responsibility of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is to coordinate cooperation among all countries in the region, strengthen national and subregional institutions, coordinate international ... -
Needs Assessment Guidance to develop National Plans for Domestic Wastewater Pollution Reduction
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1998)The goal of this Needs Assessment Guidance is to assist WCR governments in meeting the requirements of Annex III, as well as, any government working towards protecting and preserving the marine environment by addressing ... -
Needs Assessment Study on Capacity Building on Waste Management - Prepared for the Global Partnership on Waste Management (GPWM)
(2016)The purpose of this report is to identify the capacity development needs of the different countries in the implementation of waste management. The report also aims to complement supply with the demand for waste management ... -
Negative Impacts of Marine Litter in the NOWPAP Region: Case Studies
(Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP MERRAC), 2013)These case studies provide concrete evidence of how communities are affected by marine litter, and presents an opportunity for us to contemplate measures that can be taken to mitigate negative effects. Although there are ... -
Negotiating and implementing MEAs: a manual for NGOs
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Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) Phase I Final Report - Executive Summary
(1989)A Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) was established comprising of research institutions, laboratories, government agencies, and pulp and paper mills located in seven countries of the Asia and the Pacific ... -
Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) Phase I Final Report Volume 2 - Annexes 1-6 Manuals and Guidelines
(1989)This manual was prepared as part of the Phase I programme of the Network f or Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM). The manual presents in detail the methodology and procedures to be used in conducting discharge ... -
Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) Phase I Final Report Volume I - Main Report
(1989)The Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) has been established comprising of research institutions, laboratories, government agencies, and pulp and paper mills located in seven countries of the Asia and ... -
Networking Counts: Montreal Protocol Experiences in Making Multilateral Environmental Agreements Work
(2002)Strengthening MEAs through people networks. This booklet describes a particularly innovative and dynamic institutional structure that assists developing countries under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the ... -
Neurotoxicity Risk Assessment for Human Health: Principles and Approaches - Environmental Health Criteria 223
(2001)Chemicals have become an indispensable part of human life, sustaining activities and development, preventing and controlling many diseases, and increasing agricultural productivity. Despite their benefits, chemicals may, ... -
A New Angle on Sovereign Credit Risk - E-RISC: Environmental Risk Integration in Sovereign Credit Analysis
(2012)Over the past 12 months the sovereign debt of the USA, as well as Spain, Greece, Portugal and other nations primarily in the Eurozone, were downgraded. Sovereign bonds have generally been considered safe securities, ... -
A New Circular Vision for Electronics: Time for a Global Reboot
(2019)This report supports the work of the E-waste coalition, a group of seven UN entities that have come together to increase cooperation and more efficiently provide support to Member States and Parties to address the e-waste ... -
A New Deal for Nature
(2019)In 2020, world leaders will meet in China to agree on a new set of commitments to conserve nature. They will also review progress towards targets set in 2010; but the news is not all good. Only a quarter of land on Earth ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Account for the True Value of Nature
(2019)Decisions that affect biodiversity have a key economic dimension. Global capital markets – responding to consumers – will determine in large part whether the Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved by 2030. However, ...