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The Faith We Share and The World We Want - UNEP Perspectives No. 21
(2016-04)Successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require healthy, resilient and sustainable local communities everywhere. Focusing on the health, resilience and sustainability of local communities ... -
UNEP and Civil Society: An Exchange: A New Landscape For Stakeholder Engagement In UNEP? - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 20
(2016-03)This issue of “Perspectives” presents a discourse between Mark Halle and Felix Dodds on the past and future role of civil society organisations and Major Groups and Stakeholders in the context of the United Nations Environment ... -
Universal Sustainable Development Goals: A Challenge For The Rich Countries As Well As The Poor - UNEP Perspectives No. 19
(2016-01)This edition focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); explaining them as global goals that challenge both, developed and developing countries to find new pathways to a more sustainable future. The authors present ... -
GEF Initial Biosafety Strategy
(Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility, 2000-11)The main objectives of this initial strategy are to: a) assist countries in the establishment of national biosafety frameworks, b) promote information sharing and collaboration, especially at the regional and subregional ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Experiences and Lessons From the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Projects: Prepared by the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Unit As of December 2006
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2006-12)This study looks at the 124 countries that participated in the UNEP-GEF Project for Development of National Biosafety Frameworks (NBF), hereinafter referred to as the NBF development project, as well as the 8 countries ... -
Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2005-05)UNEP is implementing a global GEF project for Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH), as an add-on to the UNEP-GEF Project for Development of National Biosafety Frameworks. ... -
Building Biosafety Capacity: The Role of UNEP and the Biosafety Unit
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2006-12)Building on UNEP’s ten-year track in the emerging field of biosafety, the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Unit has taken a leading role in implementing the GEF Biosafety Strategy through three key activities. All these projects are ... -
Pastoralist Participation and Networking in Policy Dialogue - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 18
(2015-11)This article analyses the historical challenges to pastoralist participation in policy dialogues, before highlighting the benefits that pastoralist participation creates, not only for their own livelihoods, but also to ... -
Public Participation and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: A Review for DfID and UNEP-GEF
(2002)The paper is a commissioned review on Public Participation in relation to the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety prepared by IDS for DFID and UNEP-GEF. This study looks at public participation in the ... -
Waste Management Outlook for Mountain Regions: Sources and Solutions
(2016)Mountains play an essential role in supplying water, energy, food and other services to millions of people living in the mountains and downstream. Ensuring the continued supply of these services has never been more important. ... -
Position Paper - Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Nutrient Performance Indicators. A publication of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management
This paper offers the technical basis and supporting research for using Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) as a performance indicator to improve global food production and control the potential harmful environmental impacts of ... -
The global innovative index 2016: Winning with global innovation
(Johnson Cornell University, 2016)Innovation is now widely recognized as a central driver of economic growth and development. The Global Innovation Index (GII) aims to capture the multi-dimensional facets of innovation by providing a rich database of ... -
World Must Urgently Up Action to Cut a Further 25% from Predicted 2030 Emissions, Says UN Environment Report - Press Release
(2016-11-03)The world must urgently and dramatically increase its ambition to cut roughly a further quarter off predicted 2030 global greenhouse emissions and have any chance of minimizing dangerous climate change, UN Environment said ... -
Grenada - National Report for Third International Conference
(United Nations Development Programme Subregional Officefor the OECS and Barbados, 2012)Twenty years after the BPOA, the third International Conference on the SustainableDevelopment of SIDS will once again bring to fore the vulnerabilities anddevelopment needs of SIDS, with a view to identifying solutions and ... -
Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries
(UNEP, 2008)Forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing and storing carbon in their biomass and soils. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) discussions on reducing emissions from deforestation and ... -
Environmental Impact Assessment: Sewage Treatment Plant for Port Said. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 133
(1991)The fourth ordinary meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (Genoa, September 1985), when considering the workplan of the Priority Actions Programme Regional Activity Centre (PAP/RAG) of the Mediterranean ... -
UNEP - WCMC annual report 2001
(UNEP, 2001)Biodiversity is the defining characteristic of planet Earth. But our understanding of living things, their role in ecological processes and, most importantly, their significance to our own future, remains poor. What we do ... -
Lead: What can you do? [Infographic]
(2016)Lead is a widely used metal that is harmful to human health and the environment -
Elephants in the Dust: the African Elephant Crisis. A Rapid Response Assessment
(2013)This rapid response assessment report brings together critical up-to-date information from the CITES-recognized systems that monitor the status of elephants, the illegal killing of elephants, and the legal and illegal trade ... -
An Introduction to the Simple Climate Models used in the IPCC Second Assessment Report
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 1997)This technical report is aimed at introducing the climate system and simple climate models (SCMs). This report has two objectives namely: to explain how SCMs work, the processes that are induced in them, what their strengths ...