Browsing Factsheets, Infographics and Brochures by Issue Date
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UNEP Statement of Commitment by Financial Institutions (FI) on Sustainable Development
(1992)We members of the Financial Services Sector recognize that economic development needs to be compatible with human welfare and a healthy environment. To ignore this is to risk increasing social, environmental and financial ... -
International Ozone Day 1999: Save Our Sky: Be Ozone Friendly
(1999)Activities for International Ozone Day 1999 -
UNEP Depleted Uranium Awareness
(2003-09)Depleted uranium (DU) is a dense metal used in munitions for its penetrating ability and as a protective material in armoured vehicles. It is a toxic and radioactive heavy metal. This flyer on Depleted Uranium Awareness ... -
Towards Full Compliance with the Montreal Protocol: A Tool-Kit of Policy Instruments for National Ozone Units
(2005)A series of factsheets developed by the Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) team located in UNEP's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) to address developing countries' priority questions related to compliance ... -
Análisis del Marco Legal para la Incorporación de Compras Públicas Sustentables
(2008)Entendemos por compras sustentables al proceso mediante el cual las organizaciones satisfacen sus necesidades de bienes, servicios, obras y utilidades públicas de tal forma que alcanzan un alto rendimiento basado en un ... -
OzonAction Education Pack for Secondary Schools
(2008)The Student's book is an integral part of the OzonAction Education Pack for Secondary Schools. It concentrates on the same issues as the Teacher's Book: ozone layer depletion, protection and the health risks of strong ... -
Towards Sustainable Production and Use of Resources: Assessing Biofuels - [Factsheet]
(2009)Biofuels have received much attention from decision-makers in government and industry, and of the wider public worldwide. As the number of publications devoted to this renewable source of energy is expanding rapidly, it ... -
UNEP Global Mercury Partnership: Chlor-Alkali Area
(2010)The mercury-cell process is one of three manufacturing processes used by the chlor-alkali sector to produce chlorine and caustic soda. Mercury-cell chlor-alkali production remains a significant use of mercury globally, ... -
Mercury Air Transport and Fate Research Area
(2010)A global understanding of major processes and mechanisms affecting the dynamics of mercury in the atmosphere and interfaces with other ecosystem compartments, particularly biotic, is crucial for setting management and ... -
Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production: priority products and materials - Factsheet
(2010)The assessment report identifies priorities amongst global consumption activities, industrial sectors and materials from primary industries in terms of their environmental impacts and their resource use. This can play a ... -
Environmental Governance
(2010)UNEP’s Environmental Governance sub-programme promotes informed environmental decision-making to enhance global and regional environmental cooperation and governance. -
Action plan for the Caribbean of Marine Mammals (MMAP) in the Wider Caribbean Region
(2010-06-01)The Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol, born out of the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention), came into force in ... -
Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland: Site Specific Fact Sheets: Aabue - Korokoro (008-001)
(2011)This fact sheet is part of a series prepared as part of the Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It provides the observations and results from one of the individual sites ... -
HCFCs in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sector: How to prepare for the phase down
(2011)UNEP DTIE OzonAction has come out with two new flyers to provide stakelholders with a general overview and basic information on HCFC phaseout. This flyer addresses HCFCs in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector. ... -
How Metals Determine Our Lives
(2011)Recycling rates of metals are far lower than potential for reuse. Less than one-third of 60 studied have a recycling rate above 50 per cent, though many are crucial to clean technologies such as batteries for hybrid cars ... -
Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth – Factsheet
(2011)The remarkable economic and population growth of the 20th century was closely coupled to substantial increases in the extraction and consumption of natural resources, leading to increasingly-damaging negative environmental ... -
Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth – Infographic
(2011)We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate. This is the notion behind “decoupling”. -
Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland: Site Specific Fact Sheets: Aabue - Korokoro (008-007)
(2011)This fact sheet is part of a series prepared as part of the Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It provides the observations and results from one of the individual sites ... -