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Your Planet Needs You: Practical Action - Our Planet May 2009
(2009)
World Environment Day (WED) is your day — an occasion for the public to demonstrate, by practical and inspiring grass roots action that positive environmental change is alive and kicking in villages, towns and cites across ...
Review of small cetaceans: distribution, behaviour, migration and threats. Regional Seas reports and studies no. 177
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2005)
This reference book is intended for experts in the field of marine biology, students, and conservationists as well as for interested laypersons. No comparable encyclopedia on whales has been published so far. With the ...
Cloud forest agenda
(UNEP, 2004)
This report provides the first global maps of cloud forests, a regional analysis of the threats facing these forests and information on their biodiversity and watershed importance. Cloud Forest Agenda was compiled by ...
UNEP handbook for drafting laws on energy efficiency and renewable energy resources
(UNEP, 2007)
With its emphasis on adaptation to local country needs and conditions, this handbook describes key environmental and implementation issues associated with efficiency and renewable energy resources, presenting legislative ...
Industry and environment: big challenge for small business
(UNEP, 2003)
Industry and Environment is a periodical of the United Nations Environment Programme. Challenges and opportunities ◆ Tools and approaches ◆ SMEs as models ◆ Role of supply chains
Vietnam assessment report on climate change
(UNEP, 2009)
The report shows that the trend of recent climate change in Viet Nam is beyond the level of natural change. Temperatures have increased by 0.05-0.20?C and sea level has increased by 2-4 cm per decade in the last 50 years. ...
Public venture capital study
(UNEP, 2008)
This report examines the clean energy venture financing landscape, focusing on the role of public sector-sponsored venture capital as a catalyst for private investment, filling funding gaps in the commercialization of clean ...
Assessing the vulnerability of local communities to disasters: an interactive guide and methodology
(UNEP, 2008)
Most communities face risks which they have to assess and manage. Risks may arise from human activities such as industrial accidents, or they may be of natural origin such as floods, earthquakes, etc. Risks need to be taken ...
Life cycle management: how business uses it to decrease footprint, create opportunities and make value chains more sustainable
(UNEP, 2009)
This publication can be used by company in house experts and non-specialist managers as well as company suppliers in order to learn how to apply life cycle management practices throughout the value chain. This is a very ...
Tourism and local agenda 21: the role of local authorities in sustainable tourism
(UNEP, 2003)
This Study looks at how tourism has been taken into account in local Agendas 21, as drawn up and implemented by local authorities. As local authorities face the impacts of tourism development, the Agenda 21 planning framework ...