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Consumo en tiempos de la COVID-19: Estilos de vida sostenibles en el hogar
(2020)Presentamos aquí una breve guía que recopila recomendaciones de nuestros expertos del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente, PNUMA, así como de varias agencias del sistema de las Naciones Unidas para ... -
Coral Reef Restoration as a Strategy to Improve Ecosystem Services: A Guide to Coral Restoration Methods
(2020)Coral reefs provide billions of dollars in ecosystem services every year globally but are in fast decline in the face of rising climate and anthropogenic disturbances. Urgent climate action is required along with bold local ... -
Cost-Effectiveness Payback Period Transformer Model for PCB Study
(2023-07)The model is an Excel spreadsheet developed in order to estimate the necessary investment and the benefits for upgrading the distribution and transmission transformers in service that may contain hazardous levels of PCBs ... -
Desalination: Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments
(2008)The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial‐scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s. Today the worldwide number of ... -
Developing a National Action Plan to Reduce and, Where Feasible, Eliminate Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining - Guidance Document
(2017)This document represents an expansion of this original guidance document and is intended to reflect the language of the Convention and other advances in understanding of the ASGM sector. It is intended to provide guidance ... -
Developing a National Action Plan to Reduce, and Where Feasible, Eliminate Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining - Draft version
(2015)This document represents an expansion of the UNEP’s Guidance Document: Developing a National Strategic Plan to Reduce Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (UNEP 2011), and is intended to reflect Convention ... -
Developing Baseline Estimates of Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities: A Practical Guide
(2015)This guide is an educational and training document that can be used as a practical introduction to conducting baseline estimates of mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) communities. -
Directives Techniques pour le Modèle Intégré de Riziculture Résiliente au Changement Climatique ‘MIRR’ pour les Régions de L’alaotra, de L’itasy et du Moyen-Ouest du Vakinankaratra
(2019)Le concept général du MIRR repose sur une agriculture productive dans des conditions de contraintes climatiques liées à l’imprévisibilité de la variabilité climatique et à la fréquence des évènements climatiques ... -
A Directory of Environmentally Sound Technologies for the Integrated Management of Solid Liquid and Hazardous Waste for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Indian, Mediterranean and Atlantic Region
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1999)This directory has been prepared, to identify and describe ESTs which are suited to the environmental, economic, climatic, cultural, and social context of the IMA/SIDS Region. This directory is structured around 7 separate ... -
Directory of Experts and Institutions on Soils and Fertilizers in Africa
(1995)The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) decided and recommended the establishment of Eight Regional Technical Cooperation Networks on environment and ecodevelopment in Africa during their meeting in ... -
Directory of Institutions and Individuals Active in Environmental Training at Tertiary Level in Asia and the Pacific - NETLAP Publication No. 2
(1993)In 1986, UNEP published a Directory of Tertiary Institutions Offering Environmental Education and Training Courses in Asia and Pacific Region. This was followed in 1990 by the Directory of Personnel and Experts on Environmental ... -
Directory of Institutions and Individuals Active in Environmentally-Sound and Appropriate Technologies Volume 1
(1979)The UNEP Reference series publishes volumes in the key reference areas covered by UNEP and provides useful service to all those connected with the environment. Through the UNEP reference series, the environment programme ... -
Diretriz Setorial Sobre o Desenvolvimento de Relatórios de Sustentabilidade do Setor da Soja no Brasil: Guia de Treinamento
(2020)A Unidade de Consumo e Produção da ONU-Meio Ambiente elaborou uma diretriz nacional para o setor da soja no Brasil com objetivo de apoiar o setor na elaboração e no uso de relatórios de sustentabilidade, fornecendo uma ... -
Disaster Waste Management Guidelines
(2013)These guidelines provide advice and tools to overcome these challenges and manage disaster waste in emergency and take out early recovery phases. They are targeted at implementers of disaster waste management projects. ... -
Disasters, Environment and Risk Reduction – Eco-DRR Master’s Module, Instructor’s Manual
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2013-05)This is the instructor’s manual for the Master’s module entitled, ”Disasters, Environment and Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR)” developed by the Center for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD) and the Partnership for Environment ... -
Draft Guidelines for Drafters and Negotiators of the Protocol on ICZM to the Nairobi Convention: Cape Town, South Africa, 25-26 September, 2013
(2016-03-10)This Guidelines document is expected to offer guiding principles and explanations to guide both the drafters and the negotiators of the ICZM Protocol, by seeking to provide more clarity, understanding and rationale of the ... -
Dredging and Marine Aggregate Extraction
(2022-05)Dredging and marine aggregate extraction are inherently harmful to the marine environment and are not considered as part of the sustainable blue economy. However, dredging – specifically capital and maintenance dredging – ... -
E-waste Vol. III: WEEE / E-waste “Take-back System”
(2012)This third manual focuses on WEEE/E-waste collection, transport and the financial mechanisms for funding these efforts.It is intended to build the capacity of practitioners and decision makers to guide and assist them in ...