Browsing Knowledge Repository by Author "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development"
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Agroecology: Pioneering Organic
Greening Economies in the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood; United Nations Environment Programme (2017)In the 1970s, the thought of not using pesticides and chemicals in agriculture was unheard of. The focus at the time was centered around building profits and yields with the use of chemicals. The aim in switching to organic ... -
Analytical Report of the Ecolabelling Practices in Ukraine
United Nations Environment Programme (2020)Analytical report of the ecolabelling practices in Ukraine was prepared by the NGO Living Planet under contract with the UN Environment Program (UNEP) in the framework on implementation of EU-funded EU4Environment project ... -
Assessment of Existing Eco-labelling Systems in Georgia
United Nations Environment Programme (2020)This report assesses eco-label schemes in Georgia. For that purpose, it analyses past and existing legislation regarding eco-labelling. In addition, it summarizes information about existing labelling principles. The report ... -
Bizon 1: How Hunger for Success was Rewarded
Greening Economies in the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood; United Nations Environment Programme (2018)Bizon 1 is a small company born out of an agricultural research institute struggling for finance after the fall of the Soviet Union. While this posed a challenge for research, it also created favorable conditions for some ... -
Building an Inclusive Green Economy for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Overcoming Poverty and Inequality
Poverty-Environment Partnership (2012)This joint Poverty-Environment Partnership paper aims to stimulate a dialogue among developing country policymakers, development partners and other stakeholders on how best to support country-led efforts to build inclusive ... -
Deddens Agro: The Organic Transition is a Living Choice
Greening Economies in the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood; United Nations Environment Programme (2017)Deddens Agro is a Ukrainian-German company that has quickly responded to the increasing consumer demand for organic produce. The company started in 2008 with conventional agriculture and made the switch to organic in 2014, ... -
EaP Green Audio-Visual Update Issue No. 1
United Nations Environment Programme (2015)Audiovisual update of various green economy conferences held on diverse dates. -
EaP GREEN country updates series: Armenia
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2015)The EaP GREEN programme responds to commitments made by countroes, the European Union and international partners in several international forums: the Warsaw Eastern Partnership Summit, the Seventh 'Environment for Europe' ... -
EaP GREEN country updates series: Moldova
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2015)The EaP GREEN programme responds to commitments made by countroes, the European Union and international partners in several international forums: the Warsaw Eastern Partnership Summit, the Seventh Environment for Europe ... -
Economic Instruments for Managing Environmentally Harmful Products in Moldova: Current Practices and Policy Recommendations
United Nations Environment Programme (2015)The project’s objective was to help the government of the Republic of Moldova to improve the design of existing instruments and develop new ones in order to provide incentives for both reducing pollution by environmentally ... -
Economic Instruments for Managing Environmentally Harmful Products in Ukraine: Current Practices and Policy Recommendations
United Nations Environment Programme (2015)Its objective was to help the government of Ukraine to improve the design of existing instruments and develop new ones in order to provide incentives for both reducing pollution and introducing greener. -
Environmental Policy Toolkit for Greening SMEs in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries - Pre-publication of the Second Edition
United Nations Environment Programme (2016)The objective of this Environmental Policy Toolkit for SME Greening is to help governments in the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to design ... -
EthnoProduct: A Family Need Turned into Business
Greening Economies in the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood; United Nations Environment Programme (2017)EthnoProduct is a Ukranian-Swiss organically certified agricultural company, with field to consumer-ready food products, including organic cereals, dairy and meat products. The company’s production unit is located in the ... -
Expert Meeting on Access to Private Finance for Green Investments in EU Eastern Partnership Countries
United Nations Environment Programme (2014)Expert meeting on access to private finance for green investments in EU eastern partnership countries. -
Final EU4Environment Work Plan for 2019-2022: Regional Activities
EU4Environment (2020)This document is the final regional Plan of Work for 2019-2022 of the European Union for Environment programme (EU4Environment). It consolidates the activities identified for implementation at the regional level with respect ... -
Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; United Nations Environment Programme; World Bank (2018)This report lays out the agenda for integrating climate considerations into all aspects of our societies and setting up the right incentives to better align financial flows by focussing on key transformational action areas: ... -
Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure: Shifting the Lens - Interim Briefing
United Nations Environment Programme; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; World Bank (2018)Shifting the Lens examines the critical uncertainties that influence the selection, design, procurement, deployment and related financing decisions for climate-compatible infrastructure. Seven areas of critical uncertainties ... -
Financing Resource Efficient and Cleaner Products by SMEs in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries: A Stakeholders’ Guidebook
United Nations Environment Programme; EaP Green (2018)An increasing number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries consider resource efficient and cleaner production (RECP) to be an important business issue. They are interested ... -
Galeks-Agro: Winning the Organic Way
Greening Economies in the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood; United Nations Environment Programme (2017)In 2008, Oleksandr Yushchenko visited the Biofach trade fair and felt inspired after meeting dozens of organic producers in person. Upon his return home in Ukraine, he decided to set up his own organic business and, that ... -
GEF: Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances - Bibliography for a Selected Number of Persistent Toxic Substances
United Nations Environment Programme (2000)This bibliography is intended to support the activities within the GEF Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances.