Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "waste"
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10 years after Rio: the UNEP assessment - executive summary
(UNEP, 2002)This report documents industry's progress unfinished business and future challenge in implementing agenda 21. -
21 Issues for the 21st century: results of the UNEP foresight process on emerging environmental issues
(UNEP, 2012)The UNEP foresight report contains a description of the 21 emerging environmental issues identified through the UNEP Foresight Process. The process resulted in a list of 21 emerging environmental issues tagged 21 Issues ... -
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. -
Advancing sustainable consumption in Asia: a guidance manual
(UNEP, 2005)This manual provides practical guidance to governments in Asian countries on implementation of the sustainable consumption section of the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection. Using a question and answer format, the guide ... -
Afghanistan: Post-Conflict environmental assessment
(UNEP, 2003)This report presents facts on the state of the environment, specific findings concerning the urban environment and the natural resources if Afghanistan and recommendations on how to improve environmental conditions and policies. -
Afghanistan: Post-conflict Environmental Assessment
(UNEP, 2003)UNEP’s post-conflict environmental assessment illuminates Afghanistan’s current levels of degradation, and sets forth a path that the country can take towards sustainable development. It warns us of a future without water, ... -
After the Tsunami sustainable building: guidelines for South-East Asia
(UNEP, 2007)The Tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 affected a dozen Indian Ocean countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India and Maldives, Malaysia and Myanmar, with a death toll reportedly exceeding 250,000 and ... -
An Assessment of assessments: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Air, climate change, biodiversity and wastes
(2013)This report summarizes national assessments of the state of play in the environmental reporting, application of indicators and statistics on biodiversity, air, climate change and waste in the selected EECCA countries. -
Assessment of environmental hot Spots in Iraq
(UNEP, 2005)It is estimated that Iraq has several thousand contaminated sites resulting from a combination of general industrial activities, military activities, post-conflict damage and looting. Many of the sites are derelict and ... -
Assessment report on climate change, Mongolia
(Ministry of Environment, Nature and Tourism, Mongolia, 2009)The Mongolia Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009 (MARCC 2009) brings together the findings of climate change research in Mongolia for the first time, to raise awareness of decision makers and the general public ... -
Caribbean Environment Outlook: special edition for the International Meeting for the 10-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action
(UNEP, 2005)The Caribbean Environment Outlook assesses the state of the environment in the Caribbean SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States in terms of the environmental concerns identified in the BPOA and the driving forces of the ... -
CEP technical report
(UNEP, 1994)During the past two decades awareness of the steadily growing pollution of the coastal and marine areas of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) became increasingly apparent. In response to this concern, national research ... -
Design and development of integrated indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals : Report : Senior expert meeting, 3-5 December 2014, Gland, Switzerland
(2014)As part of the United Nations support to member countries in the development of the Sustainable Development Goals and following on from UNEA Resolution 1/4, UNEP organized an expert workshop on integrated indicators and ... -
Desk study on the environment in Iraq
(UNEP, 2003)This Desk Study has been prepared by UNEP as a contribution to tackling the immediate post-conflict humanitarian situation in Iraq, and the subsequent rebuilding of the country's shattered infrastructure, economy and ... -
Desk study on the environment in Liberia
(UNEP, 2004)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) participated in the post-conflict UN Needs assessment mission to Liberia. The findings of this desk study draw on key environmental information obtained from the Liberian ... -
DTIE activities and performance
(UNEP, 2006)DTIEs activities focus on awareness raising, improving the transfer of knowledge and information, fostering technological cooperation and partnerships, and implementing international conventions and agreements. These ... -
Environmental assessment of the areas disengaged by Israel in the Gaza Strip
(UNEP, 2006)In 2005, the major event in the middle-east region was the disengagement by Israel from Gaza. UNEP was requested by the environmental authorities in Gaza to carry-out an environmental assessment that would identify areas ... -
Environmental indicators for North America
(UNEP, 2006)This report sets out a methodology for selecting and developing potential indicators to portray changes in the environments shared by Canada and the United States. -
Environmental management in oil and gas exploration and production
(UNEP, 1997)These guidelines provide an overview of environmental issues in the oil and gas exploration and production industry, and of the best approaches to achieving high environmental performance in all parts of the world. Management ... -
Environmental Problems of the Marine and Coastal Area of Sri Lanka: National Report - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 74
(1986)Regional Seas Reports and Studies by UNEP