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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
(UNEP, 2005)
Integrated water resource management (IWRM) incorporating an ecosystem approach is a key building block for achieving the water, sanitation and human settlement targets of the Millennium Development Goals. It is evident ...
Making Tourism more Sustainable: A Guide for Policy Makers
(2005)
Tourism is a major economic force whose development can have a fundamental impact on societies and the environment, both positive and negative. This guide shows governments how they can make tourism more sustainable. It ...
Global Environment Outlook Scenario Framework: Background Paper for UNEPs Third Global Environment Outlook Report (GEO-3)
(UNEP, 2004)
UNEP's Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of the global environment, a review of policy responses and an outlook on the future. This report introduces the scenario ...
Natural Selection: Evolving Choices for Renewable Energy Technology and Policy
(2000)
The Natural Selection: Evolving Choices for Renewable Energy Technology and Policy is designed to help policy and decision makers to shift human economies to sustainable energy system.
Lake chad basin;GIWA Regional assessment 43
(UNEP, 2004)
This report presents the results of the Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) of the transboundary waters of the Lake Chad Basin. This and the subsequent chapter offer a background that describes the impetus behind ...
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. ...
Green Economy: The New Big Deal - Our Planet February 2009
(2009)
Globalisation does not just spread economic ups — and the current deep downs — rapidly across the globe. It can do the same for compelling and transformational ideas. As ministers gather in Nairobi for the Governing Council, ...
Integrated policymaking for sustainable development: a reference manual
(UNEP, 2009)
This manual draws on recent advances in public policy science as well as the decades-long experience of UNEP and other organizations in the field of sustainability-motivated policy assessment.
Marine litter: a global challenge
(2009)
This report provides an overview of the status of marine litter in UNEP's assisted Regional Seas, and highlights the amounts, main sources, impacts, and economics of marine litter, and discusses legislation, policies, ...
Blue carbon: the role of healthy oceans in binding carbon
(UNEP, 2009)
This report explores the potential for mitigating the impacts of climate change by improved management and protection of marine ecosystems and especially the vegetated coastal habitat, or blue carbon sinks. The objective ...