Browsing Publications and Documents by Country/Region "Japan"
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2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement
(2017)The 2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement provides an up-to-date overview of the scale and type of sustainable procurement activities undertaken worldwide in the past three years. It addresses a longstanding ... -
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. -
Asia Protected Planet Report 2014: Tracking progress towards targets for protected areas in Asia
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2014)This report assesses progress towards the achievement of elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in 24 selected countries in East Asia, South Asia and South-east Asia. These are referred to as the “Asia Region” throughout ... -
Assessment and Promotion of Human Resources for River Water Quality Management
(1995)East Asian countries have been experiencing an economic boom over the past several years. Industrial development and trade are on the rise, fuelled by healthy and vigorous foreign investment. Unfortunately, it is the very ... -
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Mitigation Ambition and Action at G20 Level and Globally. Pre-release version of a chapter in the forthcoming UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019
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City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities
(2013)These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate the abundance of options available that could ... -
Cleaner Production Worldwide
(1995)This booklet aims to show through examples that by applying cleaner production, industry and consumers anywhere in the world can gain environmental benefits while reducing costs. The purpose of this booklet is to illustrate ... -
Climate Crisis: The Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies
(1987)Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland, organized and financed by the United Nations Environment ... -
Comparative Analysis of Green Public Procurement and Ecolabelling Programmes in China, Japan, Thailand and the Republic of Korea: Lessons Learned and Common Success Factors
(2017)This report compares Green Public Procurement (GPP) programs from four leading Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea and Thailand) to understand what the frameworks and key success factors that result in high-impact green ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials / Energy from End of Life (EoL) Tyres - Final Report
(2016)This compendium describes, the environmental soundly way to recover materials and energy from waste tyres. General and specific technologies for the recovery of materials/energy from waste tyres are introduced to the target ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials from WEEE / E-waste
(2017)This compendium describes information on commercially available or near commercially available technologies and associated techniques for resource recovery from WEEE/e-waste and subsequent treatment of residual wastes. The ... -
Development of NOWPAP Ecological Quality Objective targets aligned (where possible) with SDG Indicators, phase 1 - Regional Synthesis Report
(2019)This Regional synthesis has been prepared based on national inputs provided by the nominated experts from NOWPAP member states: People’s Republic of China, Japan, Republic of Korea and Russian Federation (hereinafter ... -
District energy in cities: unlocking the potential of energy efficiency and renewable energy
(UNEP, 2015)This publication is among the first to provide concrete policy, finance and technology best practice guidance on addressing the heating and cooling sectors in cities through energy efficiency improvements and the integration ... -
The East Asian Seas Action Plan: Evaluation of its Development and Achievements - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 86
(1987)This document is an in-depth evaluation of the Action Plan for the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Areas of the East Asian Region, covering the preparatory activities leading to its adoption in 1981, ... -
Environment Management and Disaster Reduction
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2005)Session concept paper of UNEP Thematic Session on 'Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction: Building a Multi-stakeholder Partnership ' which was held on 19 January 2005 at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction ... -
Environmental management and disaster preparedness: lessons learnt from the Tokage Typhoon in Japan
(UNEP, 2005)Taking lessons learnt from the response that Japan mounted to prepare for the biggest typhoon to hit the islands in 2004 (Typhoon Tokage), the report emphasizes the cyclical impact of disasters and environment, and makes ... -
Environmental Quality Standards - Compiled as a Supplement of the Assignment Report entitled Environmental Pollution Control Programme
(1981)These standards were obtained from various sources including thoses available at the UNEP Regional Office,, Bangkok, the Office of the National Environment Board of the Government of Thailand, etc. Sources of information ... -
Exposure Monitoring of Nitrogen Dioxide: An International Pilot Study Within the WHO/UNEP Human Exposure Assessment Location (HEAL) Programme
(1991)The UNEP/WHO Human Exposure Assessment Locations (HEAL) project was developed as part of the WHO Health-Related Monitoring Programme, which was started in 1973 and originally comprised urban air monitoring, water quality ... -
Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century – Final Report
(2019)This report describes how the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for ... -
Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Assessment Report for the UNEP International Resource Panel
(2016)This report finds that global material use has tripled over the past four decades, with annual global extraction of materials growing from 22 billion tonnes (1970) to 70 billion tonnes (2010). It also provides a new material ...