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First National Communication of Kenya to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
(2002)
This executive summary includes an inventory of greenhouse gases, reports on climate change impacts, vulnerability assessment, identification of adaptation options as well as climate change related policies and measures.
Open for Business: Entrepreneurs, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development
(2003)
Rural entrepreneurs are key drivers of new clean-energy technologies, particularly for household lighting and productive uses in small industry, agriculture and water supply. But few clean-energy industries exist, and the ...
Towards Improved Policy Making for Natural Resources and Ecosystem Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Results of a Consultation Meeting held at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry 2-6 October 1995
(1996)
This report documents the results of a workshop held at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Nairobi 2-6 October 1995 on Policies for sustain-able integrated ecosystem management. The workshop, ...
Towards a Prosperous Planet: UNEP's Clearing house
(1987)
UNEP's Clearing-house, one of our youngest programmes, expands our roles of 'catalysis and co-ordination" in the field of technical co-operation. The Clearing-house acts as a benevolent broker, an impartial friend and ...
Trade and Sustainable Development - Environment and Trade 1
(1994)
Trade liberalization has been only a part of China's economic reforms, but liberalization, in addition to its direct benefits, has provided essential support for price rationalization, private sector development, openness ...
Advancing Sustainable Development Goal 14: Sustainable Fish, Seafood Value Chains, Trade and Climate
(2019)
This background note reviews current trends and projections of fish and seafood trade, and recent work undertaken to support implementation of the trade related activities of SDG 14, with a focus on the work of UNCTAD, FAO ...
Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living
(1991)
The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new ethic, the ethic for sustainable living, and ...
Ocean Policies and Institutional Arrangements for Cross-sectoral Cooperation: Case studies for achieving Sustainable Development Goals - UNEP Regional Seas Report and Studies No. 204
(2017)
The case studies include: i) Delivering the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development 2016-2025 through a highly inclusive process to transpose Agenda 2030 and its sustainable development goals at the regional ...
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 ...