Browsing Manuals, Guides and Toolkits by Author "Law Division"
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[2023 World Ozone Day Letter to National Ozone Officers]
United Nations Environment Programme OzonAction (2023-08-14)Letter to National Ozone Officers concerning activities in commemoration of World Ozone Day on 16 September 2023. -
Business Impacts on Human Rights, the Environment and Peace building: A toolkit for women and women human rights and environmental defenders in Sierra Leone
Green Advocates International; Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (2021-12)This is a toolkit for women in Liberia and Sierra Leone who live in communities where business activities have a large impact on the management of natural resources, land, human rights, and the risk of conflict. The toolkit ... -
Business Impacts on Human Rights, the Environment and Peacebuilding: A Toolkit for Women and Women Human Rights and Environmental Defenders in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Green Advocates International; Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (2021-12)This toolkit on business, human rights, and the environment (BHRE) in post-conflict situations is developed as a practical tool for human rights and environmental defenders and local civil society organisations to gain ... -
Calling Faith Actors: Make a Commitment for Land this World Environment Day
United Nations Environment Programme (2024-05)This guide speaks to communities and individuals motivated by religious and spiritual principles to be engaged on land restoration, desertification, and drought resilience, and drive solutions. Discover key values and ... -
Checklist of key elements, thematic and cross-cutting issues that should be a part of the updated National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
United Nations Environment Programme (2024-04)Following Parties commitment to revising or updating their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) in alignment with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM_ GBF) and its goals and targets. ... -
Checklist of key policies related to elements of Global Biodiversity Framework and options for policy coherence
United Nations Environment Programme (2024-04)The document aims to assist countries align their national policies with international commitments, facilitate international cooperation, address complex challenges, optimize resource allocation, strengthen compliance, and ... -
Children’s Rights and the Environment: Guidance on Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
United Nations Environment Programme (2020)This guidance seeks to provide a concise guide to reporting on children’s rights as they relate to environmental issues. It is primarily intended to assist civil society organizations from both the human rights and ... -
Compendium of Global Environmental Constitutionalism: Selected Cases and Materials 2019 (Second Edition)
United Nations Environment Programme; Widener University (2019)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
Environmental Law Making and Oversight for Sustainable Development: A guide for Legislators
United Nations Environment Programme; Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (2018)The overarching purpose of this Guide is to provide formative answers to these questions that are practically useful in the daily work of legislators and legislative officials around the world. The scope of the Guide ... -
Establishing an HCFC Import Quota System
United Nations Environment Programme (2012)Parties to the Montreal Protocol are obliged to follow the HCFC phase-out schedules agreed upon in 2007 (Decision XIX/6). Furthermore, developing countries seeking any further assistance from the Multilateral Fund for the ... -
Financing the Climate Co-Benefits of the HCFC Phase-out: A Guide for Low Volume Consuming Countries
United Nations Environment Programme (2014)This document provides guidance for Ozone Officers in low volume HCFC consuming countries (LVCs) to help them understand how to seek financing outside of the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund to achieve the climate ... -
GCI - Pilot Customs Officers Curriculum for Spanish-Speaking Latin America and Caribbean
United Nations Environment Programme (2020)This curriculum provides a structure for a comprehensive training on the control of the international trade of environmentally sensitive commodities (ESCs) in the Spanish-speaking Latin America and Caribbean region, so ... -
Global Judicial Handbook on Environmental Constitutionalism - 2nd Edition
United Nations Environment Programme (2018)This Handbook is designed to provide jurists with an overview of environmental constitutionalism: we address what it is, the peculiar practical and procedural issues it presents, and how courts from around the globe have ... -
Global Judicial Handbook on Environmental Constitutionalism - 3rd Edition
United Nations Environment Programme (2019)This Handbook is designed to provide jurists with an overview of environmental constitutionalism: we address what it is, the peculiar practical and procedural issues it presents, and how courts from around the globe have ... -
Good Servicing Practices: Phasing out HCFCs in the Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Servicing Sector
United Nations Environment Programme (2015)The purpose of this guide is to help National Ozone Units (NOUs) in Article 5 countries in their efforts to train refrigeration servicing technicians in good practices so they can contribute to HCFC phase-out. Not only ... -
Guidance for Prosecutors of Waste Crime
United Nations Environment Programme; European Union (EU) (2020)This Guidance is intended to provide guidance and practical information for authorities involved in the prosecution of cases of illegal traffic in hazardous or other wastes. Whilst the scope of the illegal transboundary ... -
Guidance Note for United Nations Resident Coordinators & Country Teams: Supporting Governments to better respect, promote and protect environmental human rights defenders
United Nations Environment Programme (2023-11)This guidance note is prepared as part of the Secretary- General’s Call to Action for Human Rights in order to increase support from the United Nations on the ground to Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs). It ... -
Guidance on Whole-of-society approach to implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
United Nations Environment Programme (2024-04)This guidance note aims to elaborate on what the “whole-of-society-approach” means to the Parties to the CBD that have been applying it in meeting the Convention objectives of the conservation of biological diversity, the ... -
Guide on undertaking rapid assessment of existing National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), including undertaking gap analyses of NBSAPs with the new targets
United Nations Environment Programme (2024-04)This Guide on undertaking rapid assessment of existing national biodiversity strategies and action plans provides Parties with a structured and easy to follow set of actions to consider when revising or updating national ... -
Guide to the Ratification and Accession to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization
United Nations Environment Programme (2018)The Guidebook is a “how to” guide on the steps towards ratification of, acceptance of, approval of or accession to, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising ...