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Update on New Refrigerants Designations and Safety Classifications - Factsheet
(2020)The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an update on ASHRAE standards for refrigerants and to introduce the new refrigerants that have been awarded an «R» number over the last few years and introduced into the ... -
Update on New Refrigerants Designations and Safety Classifications - UNEP ASHRAE Factsheet 1
(2015)The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an update on ASHRAE standards for refrigerants and to introduce the new refrigerants that have been awarded an «R» number over the last few years and introduced into the ... -
Update on the Global Status of Legal Limits on Lead in Paint - September 2018
(2018)This update is provided annually by the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) in support of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint Alliance). UN Environment and the World Health Organization ... -
Update on the Global Status of Legal Limits on Lead in Paint - September 2019
(2019-09)This update is provided annually by the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) in support of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint Alliance). UN Environment and the World Health Organization ... -
Update on the Global Status of Legal Limits on Lead in Paint: September 2017
(2017-10-17)This update is provided by the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) in support of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint Alliance). UN Environment and the World Health Organization serve ... -
Upscaling Generation Commercialization and Utilization of Biomass Waste-Based Green Energy Sources in Uganda
(2017)By-products and waste streams from agricultural processes are currently not widely utilized. Through the implementation of biomass technologies, these can be turned into feedstock/fuel for product value addition. This ... -
Urban Air Pollution - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No 4
(1991)In almost all developing countries, meanwhile, urban air pollution is worsening. Rapidly growing cities, more traffic on roads, use of dirtier fuels, reliance on outdated industrial processes, growing energy consumption, ... -
Urban Air Quality Management Toolbook
(UNEPUNHABITAT, 2000)The Handbook presents the air quality management process in a systematic sequence ofactivities. This sequence, referred to as the Environment Planning and Management (EPM)process, is based on the experience of cities around ... -
Urban Environment Outlook - GEO Georgetown
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the City Council of Georgetown,Guyana, 2009)The GEO Georgetown report evaluates the interaction between the urban development and its impact on the environment. This report calls for action with regard to recognizing the nature, causes and impacts of the city’s ... -
Urban water vulnerability to climate change in Mongolia
(Water Authority, Mongolia, 2011)This study aims to present the impacts of climate change upon urban water particularly upon the performance of the urban water supply, wastewater and storm water infrastructure, through compiling existing studies on climate ... -
Urbanization and Economic Growth in Latin America and Caribbean Damaging Air and Water Quality
(2016)Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a biologically rich region with complex political, social and natural contrasts. However, economies share a heavy reliance on primary products and natural resources, which account ... -
Urbanization and Economic Growth in Latin America and Caribbean Damaging Air and Water Quality: Global Environmental Outlook 6 - Factsheet
(UNEP, 2016)The factsheet highlihts the findings of the GEO 6 Regional Assessment of the state of environment in Latin America -
Urgent Issues of the Mycotoxins Problem in Kazakhstan
(Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1984)Mycotoxins which are poisons produced by microscopic fungi form a vast group of substances which contaminate food products [1,2,3,4,5,6] More than 200 mycotoxins have been isolated from food products and identified as ... -
Urgent Problems of the Nutrition Science
(1984)The science of nutrition, nutrItionolo, is concerned with quantitative regularities of metabolism reactions how much of every substance is consumed and formed in the process of vital activity. This quantitative principle ... -
The Use of Economic Instruments in Carbon Dioxide Mitigation: A Developing Country Perspective - Environment and Trade 12
(1995)This paper examines the use of economic instruments in the protection of the global environment (particularly, global warming caused by enhanced carbon dioxide emissions), examining the potential impact on trade and welfare, ... -
Use of HFCs in Fire Protection Systems - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 18
(2018)The most widely used fire protection systems (FPS) involve water based systems such as automatic sprinklers. An important category of FPS are chemical agents that can quickly extinguish a fire without creating some of the ... -
The Use of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Sudan
(2010)This study demonstrates that liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) use in Sudan is on a slow ascendancy, due in particular to government incentives, investment by LPG companies in distribution infrastructure and dissemination ... -
Used Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Light Duty Vehicles - Flow, Scale and Regulation
(2020)This report is a first attempt at gathering, analysing, and presenting an overview of the global trade in used vehicles for the purpose of environmental policymaking. This includes information on the supply chains, scale ... -
Using Global Biodiversity Indicators and Underlying Data to Support NBSAP Development and National Reporting: Roadmap to Support NBSAP Practitioners
(2015)The main objective of this Roadmap is to provide support and guidance to national biodiversity practitioners in the use of the global indicators and/or their underlying datasets in the development and implementation of ... -
Using indicators for Green Economy policymaking
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2014)The present document is a response to the call for the UN system to support countries interested in pursuing green economy policies by providing methodologies for their evaluation. It provides guidance to policy analysts ...