Browsing Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "Russian Federation"
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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 ... -
Aerosols sector conversion in action
This publication presents twelve technical case studies that address plant conversions to alternative technologies, including hydrocarbon aerosol propellants (HAP), manual pumps and DME propellants. It covers all sizes of ... -
Aflatoxins and their Biological Activity
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 1984)The group of aflatoxins (secondary metabolite of microscopic fungi of the Aspergillus genus) includes more than 10 compounds of similar chemical structure and biological, action. It in mostly aflatoxins B1, B2,G1 and O2 ... -
Air Quality Management and Assessment Capabilities in 20 Major Cities
(1996)This report assesses the components required for effective air quality management: the information inputs which are required for decision-making; how these inputs are used and how to measure their comprehensiveness, ... -
Apell Worldwide
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1995)Following various technological accidents in both highly industrialised and industrialising countries which resulted in adverse impacts on the environment, the United Nations Environment Programme Industry and Environment ... -
Assessment of Mercury Releases from the Russian Federation
The present assessment of the releases of mercury from the Russian Federation has been prepared as part of the Arctic mercury project as a background document for the Russian reporting to a common regional mercury assessment. ... -
Assessment of the Risks of Marine Pollution from the Fishing Industry in the Russian NOWPAP Sector
This presentation provides an analysis of the fishing potentials and the marine litter effects on the fishing practices of the four major NOWPAP Russian areas: Primorskij kraj, Khabaovskij kraj, Magadanskaja oblast’, ... -
Central and Local Government's Efforts in Russian Federation
This presentation discusses the efforts of central and local governments during the 2017 Year of Ecology in the Arctic, the Russian Far East, and other Russian regions. -
Chemical Analytic Methods of Trichothecene Mycotoxins: Basic Facts about Trichothecenes
(1984)Among the toxins of microscopic fungi a significant place is occupied by trichothecene mycotoxins (trichothecenes) representing a group of chemically related compounds – derivatives of the 12, 13-apoxytrichothe-9-cene. ... -
Chemical leasing: A global success story
(2011)This brochure presents selected projects that were implemented in close cooperation with the National Cleaner Production Centres of Colombia, Egypt, Russia, Serbia and Sri Lanka, and illustrates how this model helped ... -
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 ... -
Combating Desertification in the USSR: Problems and Experience
(Centre of International Projects, 1992)The book discusses major natural and man-made factors contributing to desertification In arid regions of the USSR. Summarized is the experience gained in the USSR an controlling desertification in animal rangeland management ... -
Country Level Impacts of Climate Change (CLICC) Project: CLICC Pilot Template for Russian Federation
The CLICC templates are the result of a pilot study designed to test the feasibility of presenting country-level climate impacts information in a consistent and transparent manner. These CLICC pilot products are just the ... -
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 ... -
Diagnostic Analysis of the Lake Xingkai/Khanka Basin (People's Republic of China and Russian Federation)
(2001)Lake Xingkai/Khanka is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast Asia, located on the border between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation. Its basin is a part of the WusulifUssuri-Heilong/Amur basin. ... -
District Energy in Cities Initiative - [Factsheet]
The District Energy in Cities Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and is one of six accelerators of the Sustainable Energy of All (SEforAll) Energy ... -
English-Russian Glossary of Selected Terms in Preventive Toxicology: Interim Document
In view of the constantly growing interest on the part of medical scientists, biologists and specialists in many other fields of knowledge in the problems of protecting the environment from chemical pollutants, there is ... -
Environment and Security: Transforming Risks into Cooperation: The Case of the Eastern Caspian Region
(2008)In the past, the notion of security was pri- marily conceived in terms of neutralizing military threats to the territorial integrity and political independence of a state. However, in recent decades, it has been considerably ... -
Environmental Information Systems in the Russian Federation
(1995)The report is based on research carried out from September to November 1994, when the first draft was compiled. The text was then further revised and updated in 1995. The scope of the research included interviews with local ...