Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "CARBON"
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30 Foresight Briefs: Early Warning, Emerging Issues and Futures - Special Edition 2017-2022
(2023-01)Foresight is a powerful tool for leveraging Humanity´s ability to think about and build the Future. It provides a way to think about possible, alternative and desired futures. By doing so, it enables individuals, organisations ... -
Action Plan for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in Mauritius
(2019)The Action Plan for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in Mauritius sets out a roadmap to a sustainable and resilient tourism accommodation sector in Mauritius. It will enable accommodation providers, their ... -
Advancing Delivery on Decarbonisation Targets: The Second Progress report of the Net-zero Asset Owner Alliance
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-09)The Alliance’s activities are characterised by a combination of ambition, leadership, and an abiding commitment to collaboration. As this report reveals, recent years have witnessed a growing number of asset owners embrace ... -
Advancing Sustainable Consumption & Production: Circularity in the Economy of Tomorrow
(2020)Environmental challenges and lifestyle choices are defining issues of our time. The concept of circularity allows us to operationalize the inclusive green economy: how to reduce and eliminate waste and pollution through ... -
Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways to Inclusive Green Recovery Spending
(2021)This report presents early data outputs from the Observatory to understand COVID-19 fiscal spending priorities in 2020 and which environmentally and economically desirable policies are facing underinvestment. It explores ... -
Assessing Low-Carbon Livestock Technologies in Costa Rica: Business Case Analysis of Low-Carbon Livestock Production - Executive Summary
(2020)This summary presents the results of an analysis undertaken to model and assess the viability of sustainable practices for the livestock sector outlined in Costa Rica´s Low Carbon Livestock Strategy and NAMA. -
Assessing Low-Carbon Livestock Technologies in Costa Rica: Business Case Analysis of Low-Carbon Livestock Production - Summary
(2020)This summary presents the results of an analysis undertaken to model and assess the viability of sustainable practices for the livestock sector outlined in Costa Rica’s Low Carbon Livestock Strategy and NAMA. -
Assessment of the Eco-Labelling System in the Republic of Moldova, in line With the European Union Requirements
(2020)The labelling system has become not only a response to the population’s concern about the worsening state of the environment, but rather proved to be an efficient method for stimulating the producers to introduce new ... -
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 ... -
Back to Earth – Using Natural Processes to Turn CO2 Permanently into Rock
(2019)The CarbFix collaborative research project, led by Reykjavik Energy, centers around one of the world's largest geothermal power plants in Hellisheidi, Iceland. Industrial scale application of the CarbFix process has been ... -
Blockchain for Sustainable Energy and Climate in the Global South: Use Cases and Opportunities
(2022-01)This report aims to provide a clearer understanding of blockchain solutions in addressing energy and climate mitigation issues, with a focus on low- to middle-income countries. The analysis targets energy and climate ... -
Blue Carbon – Nationally Determined Contributions Inventory. Appendix to: Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems Opportunities for Nationally Determined Contributions
(2016)This appendix provides an inventory of the existing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ratified National Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ... -
Business Case Analysis of Low-carbon Livestock Production in Costa Rica
(29/04/2020)Costa Rica has adopted a very ambitious national decarbonisation plan with an aspiration of becoming carbon neutral by 2021. The decarbonisation of the economy requires the widespread adoption of climate-smart practices ... -
Carbon Disulfide - Environmental Health Criteria 10
(1979)This document is based primarily on original publications listed in the reference section but much valuable information has also been obtained from various publications reviewing the toxicity and health aspects of carbon ... -
Carbon Monoxide - Environmental Health Criteria 13
(1979)Carbon and oxygen combine to form either carbon monoxide (CO) (incomplete combustion) or carbon dioxide (CO,) (complete combustion). Whereas carbon dioxide is inert, carbon monoxide is a potent poison owing to its ability ... -
Carbon Pricing Approaches in Eastern and Southern Africa - Annexure A: Country Chapters - A Report Submitted under the Collaborative Instruments for Ambitious Climate Action (CI-ACA)
(2019)This is a report showing the carbon pricing approaches in the Eastern and Southern Africa Countries. -
Carbon, biodiversity and land-use in the Central Congo Basin Peatlands
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)In January 2017, scientists announced new discoveries showing that the Central Congo Basin Peatlands form the largest area of peat swamp forest in the tropics. Estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in the Republic of ... -
Carbono cero América Latina: Una Vía para la Descarbonización Neta de la Economía Regional Para Mediados de Este Siglo - Documento de Visión
(2016)Este documento de visión evalúa las perspectivas de descarbonización neta en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Presenta un conjunto de escenarios con medidas que sería necesario adoptar en materia de energía, ... -
Cartographie des bénéfices multiples de la REDD+ en République du Congo
(2015)Ce document présente les différentes cartes produites et expliquant la pertinence de la planification spatiale de la REDD+ pour la réalisation des bénéfices multiples et la mise en oeuvre des principales garanties définies ...