Browsing Publications and Documents by Topic "Biosafety"
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4 Projects at a Glance: Burkina Faso - Project Sheet for SWITCH Africa Green Programme
(2017)Projects in Burkina Faso include: Groupe De Recherche Et D’analyse Appliquées Pour Le Développement, Valorisation Des Déchets De La Filière Anacarde Comme Une Source D’énergie Renouvelable Pour Les Pmes Au Burkina Faso ... -
Achievements & Highlights: 10th Anniversary of the Regional Ozone Network for Europe & Central Asia
(2013)The 10th anniversary brochure of the ECA network reflects a decade of network operation and aims to share major achievements, case studies and highlights to provide inspiration for countries within and outside the region. -
African Ocean Governance Strategic Blueprint - Draft pending PoE review
(2018)African Ocean Governance Strategy: Scoping study and gap analysis -
Beyond ‘Business as Usual’: Biodiversity Targets and Finance; Managing Biodiversity Risks Across Business Sectors
(2020)This report aims to enable a better understanding of the business sectors1 and financial mechanisms at risk from the loss of biodiversity and lay the groundwork for biodiversity-related target-setting by the finance sector. ... -
Bottom-up Initiatives and Participatory Approaches for Outlooks - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 23
(2019)This chapter assesses participatory processes and local practices seeking transformed futures and grounds the interventions proposed in Chapter 22 with existing examples. The following sections provide background information ... -
The Cartagena Protocol on Biodiversity: A Record of the Negotiations
(2000)The present volume serves as an excellent reference point in this respect. By reflecting the differing views during the genesis of the Protocol and painstakingly charting the negotiation of individual provisions, including ... -
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Text and Annexes
(2000)In accordance with the precautionary approach contained in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the objective of this Protocol is to contribute to ensuring an adequate level of protection in ... -
Chemical leasing: A global success story
(2011)This brochure presents selected projects that were implemented in close cooperation with the National Cleaner Production Centres of Colombia, Egypt, Russia, Serbia and Sri Lanka, and illustrates how this model helped ... -
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)This volume, Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Fisheries, addresses the potential implications for fisheries and societies of the regional impacts of a global warming of the atmosphere. Fisheries case studies were ... -
Closing Data Gaps is Essential to Achieving the Environmental Dimension of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development - SDG Policy Brief No. 008 October 2019
(2019-10)The Sustainable Development Goals Policy Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change. The evidence provided builds on the scientific data and information hosted on Environment Live and is complemented by stories ... -
A Directory of Environmentally Sound Technologies for the Integrated Management of Solid Liquid and Hazardous Waste for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Indian, Mediterranean and Atlantic Region
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1999)This directory has been prepared, to identify and describe ESTs which are suited to the environmental, economic, climatic, cultural, and social context of the IMA/SIDS Region. This directory is structured around 7 separate ... -
E-waste Management in Ghana (E-MAGIN Ghana): From Grave to Cradle
(2019)Fuelled by the accelerated pace of digitalisation and the rise of a global middle-income class, the market for electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is expanding rapidly. In Ghana, the vast majority of e-waste is managed ... -
From Policy to Implementation: Decisions from the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
(2000)The fifth meeting was a time to review progress in the implementation of the Convention, to consolidate the gains achieved and to chart the course for the future. Central to this process was the review of the operations ... -
Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)Every year a network of scientists, experts and institutions across the world work with UN Environment to identify and analyze emerging issues that will have profound effects on our society, economy and environment. The ... -
Future Developments Without Targeted Policies - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 21
(2019)This chapter examines the international scenario literature to assess to what extent current and long-term trends are in line with achieving these targets, and to understand and highlight potential implementation gaps. -
Genetically Modified Organisms: A Guide to Biosafety
(1995)This volume is intended to provide an unbiased technical guide to those dealing with genetically modified organisms at the research or regulatory level. Reference to existing regulations is meant to bring into perspective ... -
Ghana: HANISA E-Waste Model (HEMOD)
(2017)The overall objective is to develop a sustainable e-waste management system which makes e-waste re-usable and recycling. The project aims to establish a structured approach to e-waste Education/ Publicity, collection, ... -
Global Environment Outlook: For Life on Earth
(Oxford University Press, 1997)This volume-GE0-1- is the first product of the GEO Project. It provides a snapshot of a process in the making and aims to move the process along by documenting its progress. The principal focus of GE0-1 is a review of ...