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Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety - UNEP-GEF Project for Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House of the Cartagena Protocol
(2005-05)
UNEP is implementing a global GEF project for Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH), as an add-on to the UNEP-GEF Project for Development of National Biosafety Frameworks. ...
Definitions and Concepts: Background Note. Inquiry Working Paper 16/13
(2016-09)
This paper provides an initial mapping of existing practice in G20 and other countries and, where relevant internationally, highlights areas of convergence and difference, as well as distinctions between green, climate, ...
Environment and security in the Amu Darya basin
(2011)
The prime aim of this report is to identify the environmental stress points in the Amu Darya basin which have, or may have, security repercussions for the states and population.The report then suggests solutions to the ...
Advancing Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability: Rio+20 and the World Congress of Chief Justices, Attorneys General and Auditors General
(2012-11)
Key contributions to the Congress. Speeches, articles, the Rio+20 Declaration on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability and other documents that encase the critical importance behind the World Congress’ ...
Environment and Health Risks from Climate Change and Variability in Italy
(World Health Organization (WHO), 2007)
The report shows that information to assist in anticipating potential threats and impacts can be developed and can be extremely useful in preparing people and the overall societal structure for adverse events, as well as ...
Nile River Basins: Review of Adaptation Best Practice Examples in the Nile River Basin Region
(2015)
UNEP recognizes the importance of the Nile River Basin in the context of a variable and changing climate and hence the imperative to design and pilot adaptation options at basin level. The objective of this report was to ...
Nile River Basin: Nile Basin Adaptation to Water Stress: Comprehensive Assessment of Flood & Drought Prone Areas
(2015)
This report is a contribution to the UNEP project “Adapting to climate change induced water stress in the Nile River Basin”. It summarises the technical developments and assessments carried out under Work package WP1.1 ...
Nile River Basin: Enhancing the Adaptive Capacity of Communities to Climate Change through IWRM, Mpanga Catchment of theNile Basin in Uganda
(2015)
The Project - supported by UNEP - was implemented in the upper Nile Basin, in Uganda. The Mpanga catchment where activities were rolled out is part of the Lake George Basin / The Lake Albert Water Management Zone and is ...
Nile River Basin: Stock Taking of Adaptation Activities in the Nile River Basin
(2015)
This desktop review was undertaken with the aim of identifying key stakeholders and partners at continental, sub-regional, basin, national and local levels, with a particular focus on a wide range of actors such as ...
Biosafety and the Environment: An introduction to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
(2003-06)
The introduction to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United NationsEnvironment Programme to assist public understanding of the Cartagena ...