Browsing Knowledge Repository by Topic "Environment under review"
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Adapt to Survive: Business Transformation in a Time of Uncertainty - GEO for Business Brief No. 1
(2021)For nearly 50 years, UNEP has been working to improve the environment for current and future generations. As part of this work, UNEP periodically asks the expert community to assess the current state of the environment, ... -
African Enivronment Outlook 3 - Authors' Guide
(2011)The purpose of these guidelines is to serve as a reference point for all players involved in the AEO-3 production process. The main aim is to ensure consistency in the quality of contributions to the report; avoid problems ... -
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Bangkok: State of Environment 2003
(2003)This SoE report presents the key priority issues of Bangkok, which are analyzed following the "pressure-state-impact-response" (PSIR) framework. The key environmental issues of Bangkok City continue to be air quality, water ... -
Brief on the Guidelines for the Monitoring and Assessment of Plastic Litter in the Ocean: Recommendations and Future Steps
(2019)The principle purpose of this report is to provide recommendations, advice and practical guidance for establishing programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of plastic litter, also referred to as ... -
Capacity Building for Integrated Environmental Assessment and Reporting :Training Manual Second Edition
(2000)This training manual and the accompanying training program have been prepared to meet the needs of partners for improved guidance and training during the production of GEO and other associated integrated assessment reports. ... -
Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living
(1991)The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new ethic, the ethic for sustainable living, and ... -
The Case for a Digital Ecosystem for the Environment
(2019-03)Big data sets and new technologies can be brought together to create new knowledge products that can provide environmental insight in near real-time. Now is the time to reimagine and supercharge environmental governance ... -
The Case for a Digital Ecosystem for the Environment: Bringing together Data, Algorithms and Insights for Sustainable Development - Discussion Paper
(2019)This discussion paper outlines the status quo of the most salient challenges related to the collection, management and use of environmental data, algorithms and insights according to a comprehensive group of international ... -
Childhood Exposure to Environmental Lead - MARC Report Number 34
(1986)Considerable attention has been given to evaluating the significance of environmental pollution by lead. It has long been known that lead in sufficient quantities is a neurotoxin, but whether general environmental sources ... -
Children and the Environment - The State of the Environment 1990
(1990)This report, issued as a joint contribution by UNEP and UNICEF, summarizes how children have been affected by environmental changes, and vice versa - and what can be done. Time is running out - but it is not yet too late. -
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy - A Global Assessment of the Links between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
(2012)CBO – Action and Policy provides the summary of a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodi- versity, and ecosystem services. Drawing on contributions from more than 120 scientists and policy-makers from ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis - Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(2007)The Working Group I report focuses on those aspects of the current understanding of the physical science of climate change that are judged to be most relevant to policymakers. It does not attempt to review the evolution ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis; Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and ... -
Conceptual Framework for Marine Spatial Planning in The Mediterranean
(2018)As reported in the UNEP/MAP Mid-Term Strategy 2016-2021 (MTS), the Contracting Parties, at COP 18 recommended to strengthen MAP activities in the field of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP)1 in order to contribute to GES, ... -
Conceptual Framework for the Development of a Global Environmental Data Strategy
(2022)This document at this stage presents a conceptual framework for the development of a Global Environmental Data Strategy, which by request of Member States, should be finalized by UNEP by 2025. This is a first draft to begin ... -
Contingency Plan for the Combating of Oil Pollution in the South-East Pacific in Cases of Emergency - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 43
(1984)The Contingency Plan set forth below is one of the developments under the Action Plan for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the South-East Pacific, signed in Lima on 12 November 1981 by Colombia, ... -
Contributions of the UN Environment Assembly to the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
(2019)Ensuring the health of the environment is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, taking urgent action to curb global average temperature rise to well below 2C will prove critical ... -
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS): Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties - Nairobi, Kenya, 7-11 June 1994
(1994)The Conference of the Parties, the decision-making organ of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), normally meets at intervals of not more than three years, unless the Conference ...
