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Sargassum influx in the Wider Caribbean Region
(2016-10-06)Brown algae of Sargassum genus form dense populations constituting free floating rafts on the ocean surface. These sargassum rafts have been observed for a long time in the northern Caribbean Basin and the Atlantic ocean, ... -
Saving Lake Faguibine - Foresight Brief No. 001 - August 2017
(2017)The Faguibine system, located in the Tombouktou region in Mali is a series of five interlinked lakes (Télé, Takara, Gouber, Kamango and Faguibine). In the late 19th century the floodplain extended over an area of 1,000 ... -
Saving the Great Migrations: Declining Wildebeest in East Africa?: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - December 2013
(2013)This issue is about the great migrations of wildebeest in East Africa. -
Saving the ozone layer: every action counts
(UNEP, 1996)This booklet and a video have been produced by UNEP IEs OzonAction Programme in its capacity as an information clearinghouse under the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. ... -
Saving the ozone layer: guidelines for United Nations Offices
(UNEP, 1999)These guidelines were developed to help identifying equipment that contains CFC and other ozone-depleting substances, decide how best to phase out ODS -
Saving the Scraps: Reducing Food Waste in the Kitchen - The Edible Schoolyard Project
(2020)Valuing every bit of the food that has been produced means taking it to its full potential, making every bite a delight. This very approach has given us some of the world’s most delicious, iconic dishes. Think about French ... -
The Savusavu Blue Town Model
(2019)The “Savusavu Blue Town model” specifically target’s developing island and coastal communities that lie within these areas of acknowledged Tropical marine biodiversity. The Blue Town model showcases how the world can help ... -
Scaled-Up Investments in Sustainable Cities Crucial for Resource Efficiency and Poverty Eradication
(2013)Greening city infrastructure can sustain economic growth while using fewer resources -
Scaling Citizen Action on Climate: ANT Financial’s Efforts Towards a Digital Finance Solution
(2017)This report shows that almost half of Ant Financial Services Group’s 450 million users signed up to Ant Forest, an app that gamifies carbon footprint tracking – cutting greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrating the massive ... -
Scaling Innovation at the Energy-Agriculture Nexus in East Africa: Sectoral Business Condition Brief Energy-Agriculture Nexus
(2016)With rising global demand for food, there is an urgent need to find climate-smart ways to intensify agricultural production. As the population expands, agribusinesses not only need to fight food losses but also produce and ... -
Scaling up Collaborative Action under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Global Chemicals Outlook II Part V
(2019)Part V places the insights generated in Parts I-IV within the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, focusing on opportunities for collaborative action to achieve the sound management of chemicals and ... -
The Scaling up of Hydropower/Solar Energy in Papua New Guinea
(2019)This initiative will improve the country’s Human Development Index which currently ranks 158th out of 186 countries. -
Science Policy Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Making Science Deliver Greater Impacts in Shared Water Systems - Synthesis Report
(2012)The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has catalysed the largest investment of its kind in human history into shared water bodies. The GEF has catalysed more than US$7 billion of investment in managing shared waters – fresh ... -
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 1994: Executive Summary - Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project Report No. 37
(1995)The present document contains key summaries from the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1994. The full assessment report will be part of the information upon which the Parties to the United Nations Montreal Protocol ... -
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018 - Executive Summary
(2018)The Assessment documents the advances in scientific understanding of ozone depletion reflecting the thinking of the many international scientific experts who have contributed to its preparation and review. These advances ... -
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018 - Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project Report No. 58
(2018)The Assessment documents the advances in scientific understanding of ozone depletion reflecting the thinking of the many international scientific experts who have contributed to its preparation and review. These advances ... -
Scoping Public Environmental Expenditure for Poverty Eradication in Botswana. Poverty-Environment Initiative Botswana Working Paper No. 3
(2013)Public Environmental Expenditure Reviews (PEER) are playing a major role in providing feedback to governments and other stakeholders on the status of environment and natural resources related spend and initiatives undertaken ... -
Scoping Study on Intra-ASEAN Value Chain Cooperation and Trade in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies
(2016)This study closely reviewed existing trade in selected Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy technologies (air conditioners, refrigerators, lighting, distribution transformers, electric motors, solar PV and solar thermal) ... -
Scoping the Emissions Gap Report 2017 - The Emissions Gap Report 2017 Chapter 1
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)The assessment builds on all available information, including that reviewed by the IPCC in its fifth assessment report, as well as more recent scientific studies. The assessment production process has been transparent and ... -
SCP Indicators for Developing Countries: A Guidance Framework
(2008)This document has been developed to provide guidance to policymakers in developing countries on the development of indicators that measure progress towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production (SCP), a ...