Browsing Publications and Documents by Country/Region "Costa Rica"
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Actions on Air Quality: Policies & Programmes for Improving Air quality around the World
(UNEP, 2016)This publication provides a snapshot of the progress being made to adopt and implement key actions that can significantly improve air quality. -
Addressing the Used Vehicles Market: Potential Strategies for Importing and Exporting Countries to Improve Safety, Fuel Economy and Emissions Impacts - A Report of the Used Vehicles Working Group of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV)
(2019)This report is prepared by a Working Group of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles and seeks to provide a menu of potential strategies that importing and exporting countries may use to regulate cleaner and safer ... -
Assessing Low-Carbon Livestock Technologies in Costa Rica: Business Case Analysis of Low-Carbon Livestock Production - Executive Summary
(2020)This summary presents the results of an analysis undertaken to model and assess the viability of sustainable practices for the livestock sector outlined in Costa Rica´s Low Carbon Livestock Strategy and NAMA. -
Assessing Low-Carbon Livestock Technologies in Costa Rica: Business Case Analysis of Low-Carbon Livestock Production - Summary
(2020)This summary presents the results of an analysis undertaken to model and assess the viability of sustainable practices for the livestock sector outlined in Costa Rica’s Low Carbon Livestock Strategy and NAMA. -
Business Case Analysis of Low-carbon Livestock Production in Costa Rica
(2020-04-29)Costa Rica has adopted a very ambitious national decarbonisation plan with an aspiration of becoming carbon neutral by 2021. The decarbonisation of the economy requires the widespread adoption of climate-smart practices ... -
Country Case Study on Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases in Coasta Rica - Final Report
(1995)In accordance with Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all Parties are required to develop, periodically update, publish and make avail-able to the Conference of the Parties, ... -
Ecotourism in the Wider Caribbean Region: An Assessment - CEP Techincal Report 31
(1994)The objectives of the study are in short, to ascertain the present status of ecotourism in the States and Territories of the region, to clarify the scope of the concept and propose general guidelines for the appropriate ... -
Estado de la Movilidad Eléctrica: América Latina y el Caribe 2019
(2020)Esta es la tercera edición del informe regional sobre movilidad eléctrica en América Latina y el Caribe, para el año 2019, desarrollado por la plataforma MOVE de la Oficina Regional del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para ... -
Floriculture and the Environment: Growing Flowers without Methyl Bromide
(2001)This Manual is intended as a general guide for the implementation of alternatives to methyl bromide in the commercial production of cut flowers. It seeks to provide practical, easy to understand information that can be ... -
GEO Costa Rica - Costa Rica Environment Outlook
(Ministerio del Ambiente y EnergÃa, República de Costa Rica (MINAE)Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), 2002)Produced by the Costa Rican Ministry of the Environment and Energy and the University of Costa Rica, this report presents the results of two major analysis: the assessments of state of the environment and of the police ... -
A Geographical Information System and Satellite Remote Sensing to Plan for Aquaculture Development: A FAO - UNEP/GRID Cooperative Study in Costa Rica - FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 287
(1987)Planning for aquaculture development has been hindered by a lack of comprehensive information on the land, water, human and economic resources available at national, subnational,and ecosystem levels of organization. -
A Geographical Information System to Plan for Aquaculture: A FAO/ UNEP GRID Study in Costa Rica
(Food and Agriculture Organization, 1987)Planning for aquaculture development has been hindered by a lack of comprehensive information on the land, water, human and economic resources available at national, subnational, and ecosystem levels of organization. The ... -
Greening Universities Toolkit V2.0: Transforming Universities into Green and Sustainable Campuses: A Toolkit for Implementers - Advance Copy
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2014)The objective of this Toolkit is to inspire, encourage and support universities to develop and implement their own transformative strategies for establishing green, resource-efficient and low carbon campuses. It will provide ... -
ILAC Costa Rica
(Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA)Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía (MINAE)Observatorio del Desarrollo, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2005)El monitoreo del progreso en procura de las metas establecidas por la Iniciativa Latinoamericana y Caribeña para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ILAC), que se documenta en el presente informe, busca contribuir a hacer patente ... -
The Impacts of Sustainable Public Procurement: Eight Illustrative Case Studies
(2012)The SPP impact study is a joint project of UNEP and of the Swiss-led Marrakech Task Force on SPP. The study aims at demonstrating the benefits of sustainable public procurement on developing, developed and in transition ... -
La Dimensión ambiental en la planificación del desarrollo sostenible en Costa Rica: La aplicación de un enfoque integrado para la implementación de los ODS
(2018)Esta nota presenta información práctica respecto a las brechas, retos y áreas de oportunidad de Costa Rica para avanzar en una planificación de largo plazo que integre la dimensión ambiental y logre el desarrollo sostenible ... -
Legislacion Ambiental en America Latina y el Caribe
(1984)El presente volumen da cuenta de los progresos realizados en este sentido en America Latina y ci Caribe, ai reproducir ci texto de algunas de las ieyes ya vigentes en la regiOn sobre Ia materia (restricciones de carácter ... -
Marine Environmental Centres: Caribbean
(1985)This publication is a contribution to the UNEP sponsored regional Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme adopted at the intergovernmental meeting convened by UNEP in Montego Bay. Jamaica, 6-8 April 1981***. ... -
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 ... -
Once Burned, Twice Shy? Lessons Learned from the 1997-98 El Niño
(2001)This assessment reviewed forecasts and impacts of the 1997-98 El Niño, as well as the climate-related early warning and natural disaster preparedness systems in the following locations in order to improve their ENSO (El ...