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Gincana 3: Biological Diversity and Climate Change
(2007)
The recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepared by 2500 experts from 130 countries has made it clear that climate change is real.
Reforming Energy Subsidies: An Explanatory Summary of the Issues and Challenges in Removing or Modifying Subsidies on Energy that Undermine the Pursuit of Sustainable Development
(2002)
This booklet draws on recent work on energy-subsidy reform carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (lEA). It summarizes in non-technical language the central issues ...
Certification and Sustainable Fisheries
(2009)
The main concern of this paper is a consideration of the hypothetical and actual benefits of certification and eco-labelling. The paper focuses on environmental certification of capture fisheries (rather than social and/or ...
Towards Sustainable Fisheries Access Agreements: Issues and Options at the World Trade Organization
(2008-10)
This paper presents concrete textual suggestions for improving the ASCM with regards to “access-related” fisheries subsidies. Suggested options range from improving the definition of subsidies to introducing criteria-conditioned ...
Sustainability Criteria for Fisheries Subsidies: Options for the WTO and Beyond
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2007)
The aim of this paper is to assist governments in the identification of criteria for the use of fisheries subsidies, with the dual ambition of helping WTO negotiators craft new international law and providing domestic ...
A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean : The Blue Plan's Environment and Development Outlook
(Earthscan, 2005)
This report constitutes an indispensable tool for each and every coastal country, the European Union and all those trying to build a Euro-Mediterranean zone of stability and shared prosperity.2 It presents a new analysis ...
Reforming Energy Subsidies: Opportunities to contribute to the Climate Change Agenda
(2008)
This report summarises, in a non-technical language, the nature, types and impacts of subsidies on energy that undermine the pursuit of sustainable development. It also offers recommendations to policy makers on how to ...
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 ...
Evaluation of UNEP Riso Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development (URC) - Evaluation Report
(2005)
This is the third evaluation of the UNEP Riso Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development (URC) since the Centre's inception in 1990. It covers URC's work programme and institutional arrangements for Phases V ...
Water Assessment for Sustainable Development
(2004)
One of the Water Policy and Strategy's main goals is to identify and promote tools that will address the critical water issues facing humanity. New technologies and water management demands can improve efficiency in ...