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The Illegal Trade in Chemicals
(2020)Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups. Chemicals can ... -
Imagining a sustainable financial system
(2016)This paper has been developed as the framing paper for the Research Convening on Design Options for a Sustainable Financial System, which the UNEP Inquiry and CIGI held on 2-3 December 2014 in Waterloo, Canada. The workshop ... -
IMO/UNEP Guidelines on Oil Spill Dispersant Application and Environmental Considerations
(1982)This publication contains practical information which may be useful to Governments, particularly those of developing countries, and to other concerned parties, on the use of dispersants for dealing with oil spills at sea. -
Impact Assessment and Management Framework for Infrastructure Assets: A Case Study of Konkan Railways
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The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture Volume 1: Assessment in Cool Temperate and Cold Regions
(1988)At a meeting in 1982, the Scientific Advisory Committee of WCIP accepted, in broad terms, a proposal From the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for an integrated climate impact assessment, with ... -
The Impact of Corruption on Climate Change: Threatening Emissions Trading Mechanisms?: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - March 2013
(2013)The trading of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has recently emerged as one of the most dynamic and promising areas of global environmental governance. According to the latest assessment by the International Panel on Climate ... -
The Impact of Ozone-Layer Depletion - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 7
(1992)The ozone layer that has shielded the Earth from damaging ultraviolet radiation since life began is diminishing. This is caused by the use we have made, over the past 60 years, of the ozone layer depleting substances, ... -
Impact of the 3rd Global Coral Bleaching Event on the Western Indian Ocean in 2016
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018)The main objective of this report is to provide updated information on the status of coral reefs in the region after the 2016 mass coral bleaching event. Secondary objectives are to a) update the national and regional ... -
The Impact of Water-Based Drilling Mud Discharges on the Environment: An Overview
(1985)The first well drilled in the United States was in the year 1859 in the state of Pennsylvania. Since then about 2.7 million onshore wells have been drilled in the U.S. onshore drilling presently continues at an annual rate ... -
The Impact Radar: A Tool for Holistic Analysis – Principles for Positive Impact Finance Implementation Guidance
(2018)The Impact Radar aims to offer a credible and comprehensive set of impact categories that can be integrated with the tools developed to deliver PI finance and contribute to a common frame for the assessment of PI products ... -
Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity: A review of the recent scientific literature
(2008)The IPCC 4 Assessment Report (AR4) concluded that climate change will have significant impacts on many aspects of biological diversity. These impacts will include effects on ecosystems, on their component species and genetic ... -
Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2001)The impacts of "human-induced" climate change are now being observed in every aspect of life, and it is the most significant and far-reaching current environmental threat. In the last few decades, natural scientists and ... -
Impacts of Climate Change: How can we Adapt? - A Simplified Guide to the IPCC's "Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"
(2008)This booklet summarises the most recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the current knowledge concerning climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability -
The Impacts of Climate on Fisheries - UNEP Environment Library No. 13
(1994)This volume of the UNEP Environment Library summarizes the potential implications of climate change and variability on fisheries and on the societies that depend on them. It is based on a review of several fisheries case ... -
Impacts of Global Warming on Coastal and Marine Ecosystems in the Northwest Pacific
(Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, 2014)This report provides a scientific basis to decision makers in developing policy strategies that incorporate regional differences in marine ecosystems supporting fish stocks, and vulnerability and adaptation of fisheries ... -
Impacts of Marine Debris on Biodiversity: Current Status and Potential Solutions. CBD Technical Series No. 67
(2012)Marine habitats throughout the world are contaminated with man-made items of debris and solid waste. This report reviews the current state of knowledge of the effects of marine debris, and provides a preliminary assessment ... -
Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2010)UNEP-WCMC has provided technical support to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to conduct a major study of more than 300 scientific literatures to synthesise the observed and predicted impacts ... -
Impacts of Ocean Fertilization on Marine Biodiversity
(Barnard, N., Hain, S., 2009)On behalf of the CBD Executive Secretary, UNEP-WCMC has compiled and synthesized available scientific information on ocean fertilization and its observed and predicted impacts on marine biodiversity and habitats. The study ... -
Impacts of Sand and Dust Storms on Oceans: A Scientific Environmental Assessment for Policy Makers
(2020)Sand and dust storms (SDS) are common in deserts and semi-deserts when strong winds blow over dry soils with little or no vegetation. Dust generated by SDS is often raised high into the atmosphere and transported over long ... -
Impacts of Sand and Dust storms on Oceans: A Scientific Environmental Assessment for Policy Makers - Executive Summary
(2020)Sand and dust storms (SDS) are common in deserts and semi-deserts when strong winds blow over dry soils with little or no vegetation. Dust generated by SDS is often raised high into the atmosphere and transported over long ...