Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Subject "JAPAN"
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25 Years of Crisis Response
(2022-03)UNEP is working around the world to respond to natural disasters, industrial accidents, and human-induced crises. Since 1994, UNEP, through its Disasters and Conflicts Branch, has supported more than 50 crisis-affected ... -
Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing: A Review of Existing Frameworks
(2019)This report pursues the following main objectives: (i) To provide an up-to-date overview of selected national, and as appropriate regional, policy and legal frameworks on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing ... -
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities
(2013)These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate the abundance of options available that could ... -
Comparative Analysis of Green Public Procurement and Ecolabelling Programmes in China, Japan, Thailand and the Republic of Korea: Lessons Learned and Common Success Factors
(2017)This report compares Green Public Procurement (GPP) programs from four leading Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea and Thailand) to understand what the frameworks and key success factors that result in high-impact green ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials / Energy from End of Life (EoL) Tyres - Final Report
(2016)This compendium describes, the environmental soundly way to recover materials and energy from waste tyres. General and specific technologies for the recovery of materials/energy from waste tyres are introduced to the target ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials from WEEE / E-waste
(2017)This compendium describes information on commercially available or near commercially available technologies and associated techniques for resource recovery from WEEE/e-waste and subsequent treatment of residual wastes. The ... -
Electronics Cleaning, Degreasing, and Dry Cleaning Solvents Technical Options Report: Summary Report
(1989)The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer restricts the production and consumption of some ozone-depleting chemicals. Chlorofluorocarbon 1, l,2-trichloro-1,2 ,2-trifluoroethane, commonly referred to ... -
Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century – Final Report
(2019)This report describes how the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for ... -
Final Report of Periodic Ambient Mercury Monitoring at Niigata-Maki Acid Deposition Monitoring Station in Japan from 2021 to 2023
(2023-12)This project aims to evaluate the feasibility and challenges for introducing ambient mercury monitoring by gold trap method, which will be included in the monitoring guidance of Minamata Convention, to existing monitoring ... -
The Fourth Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia - Part I: Regional Assessment
(2021-12)This report is the Fourth Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia (PRSAD4). The EANET data of 2015-2019 is utilized for evaluating the current status and impact of the acid deposition and air pollution ... -
The Fourth Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia - Part II: National Assessment
(2021-12)This report is the National Assessment, Part II of Fourth Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia (PRSAD4). The National Assessment of PRSAD4 was prepared by each participating country according to the ... -
The Fourth Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia - Part III: Executive Summary
(2021-12)This is the Fourth Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia (PRSAD4), describing the outcomes of 20 years of EANET activities (2000-2019). The PRSAD4 is comprised of three parts; Part I: Regional ... -
G20 Energy Efficiency Finance and Investment: 2019 Stocktake Report
(2019)The G20 Global Summit on Financing Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Clean Technology was held on June 12th, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. It gathered over 140 senior executives of financial institutions, G20 policymakers and ... -
Integrated Report on Ocean Remote Sensing for the NOWPAP Region: Towards Assessment of the Marine and Coastal Environment
(NOWPAP Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre (NOWPAP CEARAC), 2011)The ultimate goal of CEARAC activities is to 'establish cooperative marine environmental monitoring by remote sensing and to contribute to the conservation of the marine environment in the NOWPAP region'. This Integrated ... -
Law Enforcement on Illegal Dumping and Illegal Treatment of Medical Waste in Japan
(2021-11)In partnership with IETC, IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) developed the present case study to demonstrate good practices in medical waste management in Japan, in which illegal dumping ... -
Marine Litter in the Northwest Pacific Region
(Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP), United Nations Environment Programme, 2008)This publication is intended to provide information for the general public, governments and private sector on the marine litter problem and its solutions in the NOWPAP region. The publication consists of two parts (which ... -
Mid-term Review Report for Project for Promoting Minamata Convention on Mercury by Making the Most of Japan’s Knowledge and Experiences (PIMS-02029) - (Reporting Period: July 2019 – June 2022)
(2023-02)The main objective of the mid-term review is to assess the progress of the Project from its inception in July 2019 up to June 2022. The results of the review will be used to adjust the workplans for the second half of the ... -
National Actions on Marine Microplastics in the NOWPAP Region
(2020)The objective of NOWPAP is to protect the regional marine environment under international cooperation between the four member states. NOWPAP initiated marine litter (ML) activities following the decision at the Tenth NOWPAP ... -
Port Reception Facilities in the NOWPAP Region - 2nd Edition
(Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP MERRAC), 2012)These guidelines were designed to assist local organizations, local governments and NOWPAP member states by providing information on port collection facilities as submitted by member states or collected from the International ... -
The Present State of Environmental and Resource Accounting and its Potential Application in Developing Countries: Environmental Economics Series Paper No.1
(1992)An essential step towards achieving sustainable development is through the sound and efficient management of natural resources. One way to achieve that, is by accounting for the depletion and degradation of natural resources.