Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "CANADA"
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Addressing Single-use Plastic Products Pollution Using a Life Cycle Approach
(2021)In response to the request by Member States at the Fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly in March 2019[1], the report “ Addressing Single-Use Plastic Products Pollution using a Life Cycle Approach” describes: a) ... -
Assessment of Urban Air Quality
(1988)The overall purpose of this report is: - to continue the ongoing process of producing periodic evaluations of the global air pollution situation in urban areas; - to continue to develop and advance the techniques used for ... -
Building Back Greener in the Post-COVID-19 Era - Perspective Issue 42
(2023-01)In this paper, the Green Economy Coalition pulls together recommendations and findings from our green recovery work during COVID and examines what insights from around the world can be applied to the current multiple ... -
Chemicals of Concern in Electronics: List of Lists and Regulatory Frameworks
Chemicals in products and hazardous substances within the life cycle of electrical and electronic products have been longstanding emerging policy issues under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management ... -
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 ... -
Electronics Cleaning, Degreasing, and Dry Cleaning Solvents Technical Options Report: Summary Report
(1989)The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer restricts the production and consumption of some ozone-depleting chemicals. Chlorofluorocarbon 1, l,2-trichloro-1,2 ,2-trifluoroethane, commonly referred to ... -
Environmental and Safety Incidents concerning Tailings Dams at Mines: Results of a Survey for the Years 1980-1996
(1996)This study aims to identify and to annotate major incidents involving mine tailings dams since 1980. Although mining in some form takes place in almost every country, it was not feasible, within the time constraints of the ... -
Eutrosym '76: Proceedings the International Symposium on Eutrophication and Rehabilitation of Surface Water - Vol. I, Part 1
The participants in this meeting drew up draft recommendations concerning the protection of surface waters from eutrophication. -
Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century – Final Report
(2019)This report describes how the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for ... -
Global Drinking Water Quality Index Development and Sensitivity Analysis Report
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2007)As the principal United Nations body on environment, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) had been tasked by UN-Water to lead on freshwater quality and aquatic ecosystem data and information inputs to the World Water ... -
Greening Financial Markets: Report of the UNEP Round-Table Meeting on Commercial Banks and the Environment
(26/09/1994)As the search for new solutions to environmental degradation intensifies, it is clear that the process by which regulatory solutions are designed and enforced by public agencies upon the private sector is becoming increasingly ... -
Handbook of Environmental Legislation and Machinery
(1983)The handbook should serve the following purposes: - as a base for UNEP'S advice on the establishment of sound environmental machinery and legislation as a basis of better environmental management; - as a source of ... -
Liveable Cities: The Benefits of Urban Environmental Planning - A Cities Alliance Study on Good Practices and Useful Tools
This report, focusing on the urban challenge, brings together concrete case studies from cities around the world which are struggling, but also in many cases succeeding in tackling issues from waste and transportation to ... -
Needs and Specifications for a Biodiversity Information Network : Proceedings of an International Workshop
(1992)This volume records the Proceedings of an international workshop co-sponsored by UNEP, IUBS, IUMS and WFCC to discuss the needs and specifications of a biodiversity information network. The Proceedings include the ... -
Neglected: Environmental Justice Impacts of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution
(2021)Public understanding of plastic pollution has risen consid¬erably in the last couple of years. Far less understood is the broader context in which this pollution exists, and of the full extent of its impacts. Vulnerable ... -
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Efficient Water Use in Urban Areas: Innovative Ways of Finding Water for Cities - IETC Report Series No. 9
(1999)The symposium was aimed at enhancing the capacity of urban managers and decision-makers in water resources management. About 150 delegates from 45 developing countries, mostly managers and decision/policy-makers, from ... -
Production and Consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances 1986-1995
(1997)This report contains data on the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), as reported to the Secretariat by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer during the ...