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The Global Reporters
(2000)The Global Reporters spotlights emerging best practice around the world, focusing on a number of key sectors and 'hot topics Significantly, it introduces and applies a radically revised methodology for assessing reports. -
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Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want
(2019)The Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework is one type of systems approach that can be used to analyse how society is using natural resources and the various implications of this use. This report is ... -
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want - Case Studies
(2019)The case studies here presented demonstrate issues of concern and solutions for the sustainable management of natural resources across sectors, and the positive impacts policy and other interventions towards decoupling can ... -
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future we want - Factsheet
(2019)Over the past five decades, our global population has doubled, the extraction of materials has tripled and gross domestic product has quadrupled. The extraction and processing of natural resources has accelerated over the ... -
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want - Implications for Business Leaders
(2019)This document highlights and contextualizes the key findings of the Global Resources Outlook 2019 (GRO) report for leaders in business and policy. It aims to provide a starting point for strategic decision-making for ... -
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want - Scenarios Infographic
(2019)Through a combination of resource efficiency, climate mitigation, carbon removal, and biodiversity protection policies, this report finds that it is feasible and possible to grow economies, increase well-being and remain ... -
Global Resources Outlook 2024 - Bend the trend: Pathways to a Liveable Planet as Resource Use Spikes
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)The world is in the midst of a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and waste. The global economy is consuming ever more natural resources, while the world is not on track to meet the ... -
Global Review of Mercury Monitoring Networks
(2016)This review compiles and synthesizes available information on existing mercury monitoring networks, including (i) air monitoring, (ii) human biomonitoring, and (iii) biota monitoring. It also seeks to highlight gaps in the ... -
Global Risk And Vulnerability Index Trends per Year (GRAVITY) Phase II: Development, analysis and results
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2002)This study presents the results from the second phase of the project Global Risk and Vulnerability Index Trend per Year (GRAVITY) developed by UNEP/GRID-Geneva for the UNDP/BPRD. At the end of the first phase - the feasibility ... -
Global Risk And Vulnerability Index Trends per Year (GRAVITY) Phase III: Drought analysis
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2003)Among the different recommendations from the two previous GRAVITY reports, drought was the obvious significant missing hazard. In the first GRAVITY report (feasibility study) food insecurity was highlighted for producing ... -
Global Risk And Vulnerability Index Trends per Year (GRAVITY) Phase IV: Annex to WVR and Multi Risk Integration
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2003)The purposes of the Disaster Risk Index was to identify whether global data sets could be used for identifying population living in exposed areas and demonstrate the link between socio-economical parameters and vulnerability. -
Global Seminar for Women Leaders on the Uptake of Renewable Energy Technology
(2001)Over the last five years the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Murdoch University, Perth have joined hands in promoting environmentally sound technologies, particularly among prospective users in developing ... -
Global solar UV index: a practical guide
(WHO, 1995)The Global Solar UV Index (UVI) described in this document was developed in an international effort by WHO in collaboration with WMO, UNEP and ICNIRP -
Global State of Sustainable Insurance: Understanding and Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Factors in Insurance
(2009)This landmark report by the UNEP FI Insurance Working Group is a testament to the fundamental role of the insurance industry in sustainable development, which is not a choice, but the only option. And the message is loud ... -
Global status of Lead Paint Laws
(2017)Presentation at the Caribbean Seminar on the Establishment of Legal Limits on Lead in Paint - Friday, December 1, 2017, Norman Manley Law School, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
