Browsing Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "Japan"
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2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement
(2017)The 2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement provides an up-to-date overview of the scale and type of sustainable procurement activities undertaken worldwide in the past three years. It addresses a longstanding ... -
25 Years of Crisis Response
(2022-03)UNEP is working around the world to respond to natural disasters, industrial accidents, and human-induced crises. Since 1994, UNEP, through its Disasters and Conflicts Branch, has supported more than 50 crisis-affected ... -
Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing: A Review of Existing Frameworks
(2019)This report pursues the following main objectives: (i) To provide an up-to-date overview of selected national, and as appropriate regional, policy and legal frameworks on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing ... -
Actions on Air Quality: Policies & Programmes for Improving Air quality around the World
(UNEP, 2016)This publication provides a snapshot of the progress being made to adopt and implement key actions that can significantly improve air quality. -
Annual Progress Report for Project for Promoting Minamata Convention on Mercury by Making the Most of Japan’s Knowledge and Experiences - (Reporting Period: July 2019 – June 2020)
(2020-12)The project was agreed on 20 February 2019 at the meeting between the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Global announcement of the project was made on the UNEP’s ... -
Annual Progress Report for Project for Promoting Minamata Convention on Mercury by Making the Most of Japan’s Knowledge and Experiences - (Reporting Period: July 2021 – June 2022)
(2022-10)This project has made significant progress in implementing activities under all three (3) Outputs. Capacity building programmes are focused on two (2) key areas, namely ‘mercury flow analysis’ and ‘mercury monitoring’. ... -
Annual Progress Report Project for Promoting Minamata Convention on Mercury by Making the Most of Japan’s Knowledge and Experiences - (Reporting Period: July 2020 – June 2021)
(2021-09)This project, which was launched in July 2019, has continued the activities as much as possible due to COVID-19 pandemic. The implementation plan was developed, which employed at most flexibility to cope with the restriction ... -
Asia Protected Planet Report 2014: Tracking progress towards targets for protected areas in Asia
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2014)This report assesses progress towards the achievement of elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in 24 selected countries in East Asia, South Asia and South-east Asia. These are referred to as the “Asia Region” throughout ... -
Assessment and Promotion of Human Resources for River Water Quality Management
(1995)East Asian countries have been experiencing an economic boom over the past several years. Industrial development and trade are on the rise, fuelled by healthy and vigorous foreign investment. Unfortunately, it is the very ... -
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Mitigation Ambition and Action at G20 Level and Globally. Pre-release version of a chapter in the forthcoming UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019
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Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste: Japanese Experiences and Potential
(2023-03)Chemical recycling of plastic waste – Japanese experiences and potential -
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities
(2013)These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate the abundance of options available that could ... -
Cleaner Production Worldwide
(1995)This booklet aims to show through examples that by applying cleaner production, industry and consumers anywhere in the world can gain environmental benefits while reducing costs. The purpose of this booklet is to illustrate ... -
Climate Crisis: The Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies
(1987)Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland, organized and financed by the United Nations Environment ... -
Comparative Analysis of Green Public Procurement and Ecolabelling Programmes in China, Japan, Thailand and the Republic of Korea: Lessons Learned and Common Success Factors
(2017)This report compares Green Public Procurement (GPP) programs from four leading Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea and Thailand) to understand what the frameworks and key success factors that result in high-impact green ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials / Energy from End of Life (EoL) Tyres - Final Report
(2016)This compendium describes, the environmental soundly way to recover materials and energy from waste tyres. General and specific technologies for the recovery of materials/energy from waste tyres are introduced to the target ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials from WEEE / E-waste
(2017)This compendium describes information on commercially available or near commercially available technologies and associated techniques for resource recovery from WEEE/e-waste and subsequent treatment of residual wastes. The ... -
Current Situation of Waste Lead Acid Battery Recycling in Japan
(2015)https://www.unenvironment.org/events/workshop/workshop-sound-management-used-lead-acid-batteries-osaka-japan -
Development of NOWPAP Ecological Quality Objective targets aligned (where possible) with SDG Indicators, phase 1 - Regional Synthesis Report
(2019)This Regional synthesis has been prepared based on national inputs provided by the nominated experts from NOWPAP member states: People’s Republic of China, Japan, Republic of Korea and Russian Federation (hereinafter ...
