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    • Disaster risk reduction in tourism 

      United Nations Environment Programme
      The ‘Disaster Risk Reduction in Tourism’ project aims at increasing the disaster management capacity of the main stakeholders in three tsunami hit tourism destinations (i.e. Kanniyakumari in Tamil Nadu State, India
    • e-Waste Management in South Asia - Scoping exercise 

      Development Alternatives (DA); South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP)
      Development Alternatives (DA) and South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) on 22 September 2007 jointly organised the scoping exercise on e-waste management in South Asia in New Delhi, India. The workshop was ...
    • Environmental Problems of the Marine and Coastal Area of India: National Report. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 59 

      United Nations Environment Programme
      As a first follow-up activity to decision 11/7 of the governing council, the Executive Director of UNEP convened, in cooperation with South Asian cooperative Environment programme (SACEP), a meeting on national focal points ...
    • Environmental problems of the South Asian Seas region: An overview - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 82 

      United Nations Environment Programme (1987)
      This document aims to outline some of the main environmental problems that exist in the South Asian Seas region and to set forth recommendations for activities and projects that may usefully be included in a regional ...
    • Exposure Monitoring of Nitrogen Dioxide: An International Pilot Study Within the WHO/UNEP Human Exposure Assessment Location (HEAL) Programme 

      United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization (1991)
      The UNEP/WHO Human Exposure Assessment Locations (HEAL) project was developed as part of the WHO Health-Related Monitoring Programme, which was started in 1973 and originally comprised urban air monitoring, water quality ...
    • Financing the Transition: How Financial System Reform Can Serve Sustainable Development 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2016)
      This report is focused on understanding how the growing number of policy and regulatory measures taken in the financial system can support a real economy in transition, seeking to answer the question: ‘what measures are ...
    • Gender Mainstreaming in the Management of the Marine and Coastal Ecosystems. UN Environment Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 212 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019)
      This report aims to make a small contribution to the above challenge by compiling practical cases of marine and coastal management from different regions that have integrated a gender perspective in their design, implementation ...
    • The Global Climate System: Climate System Monitoring December 1988-May 1991 

      United Nations Environment Programme; World Meteorological Organization; World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme (1992)
      This report, the fourth biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provide.s a basis for the monitoring of global change. This monitoring supports ...
    • The Global Climate System: Climate System Monitoring June 1986-November 1988 

      United Nations Environment Programme; World Meteorological Organization; World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme (1991)
      This report, the third biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provides a basis for the monitoring of global change. Due to deficiencies in ...
    • Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2014 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Bloomberg New Energy Finance; Frankfurt School-UNEP Centre (2014)
      The latest edition of this annual report outlines the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. Full of statistics, charts and narrative, it explores the issues affecting each ...
    • Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Frankfurt School-UNEP Centre; Bloomberg New Energy Finance (2016)
      Renewable energy set new records in 2015 for dollar investment, the amount of new capacity added and the relative importance of developing countries in that growth. All this happened in a year in which prices of fossil ...
    • Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Bloomberg New Energy Finance; Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2017)
      Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017, published on April 6th by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, finds that all investments in renewables totalled ...
    • Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2020 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Frankfurt School of Finance and Management; BloombergNEF (2020)
      This report analyzes 2019 investment trends, and clean energy commitments made by countries and corporations for the next decade. It finds commitments equivalent to 826 GW of new non-hydro renewable power capacity, at a ...
    • Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment Report 2018 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; Bloomberg New Energy Finance (2018)
      The report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018, published by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, finds that falling costs for solar electricity, ...
    • Holistic Waste Management Strategy for Varanasi City 

      United Nations Environment Programme; ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability; Varanasi Nagar Nigam (2018)
      With a population close to 1.3 million, Varanasi city generates roughly 445 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste. The city is a major religious center and hence attracts significant numbers of tourists; 25,000 pilgrims ...
    • India health report: Nutrition 2015 

      Public Health Foundation of India
      India is on the move. The past two decades have seen significant improvements in household incomes, agricultural productivity and child survival. Between 1990 and 2014, as the income of the average Indian rose by an average ...
    • Infoterra: 15 Years of Making a Difference - Exchange of Environmental Experience Series No. 4 

      United Nations Environment Programme (1992)
      The series, entitled Exchange of Environmental Experience, grew out of a recognition that a great deal of valuable experience on the environment was being shared through the INFOTERRA network, and perhaps much of this ...
    • Infrastructure for low carbon transport in India: a case study of the Delhi-Mumbai dedicated freight corridor. 

      Pangotra, P.; Shukla, P. R.
      This study is part of a larger research project on Promoting Low-Carbon Transport in India, a major initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), referred to as the Low Carbon Transport (LCT) project in ...
    • Integrated Pest Management in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Prospects 

      United Nations Environment Programme; International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) (John Wiley and Sons, 1995)
      This volume assesses the current status and future prospects for IPM in these regions. It provides a unique overview of the efforts made to develop and implement IPM for the pests of livestock and agroforestry in selected ...
    • International Environmental Technology Centre - Annual Report 2018 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2018)
      As outlined in this, first ever annual report, IETC delivered substantial results aligned with the waste management goals in the United Nations Environment Programme’s programme of work, and in particular with resolution ...