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A Qualitative Study on Risks and Opportunities of Plastic Credit Financing Instruments Being Introduced into the Informal Waste Management Sector - Working Paper
(2022)This study aims to bridge existing research gaps and bring to light a better understanding of the potential risks and opportunities associated with the introduction of plastic credits to the informal waste management sector ... -
Quality Assurance and Good Laboratory Practice for Marine Microbiological Measurements - Reference Methods for Marine Pollution Studies No. 66
(1995)The objective of a pollution monitoring programme is to obtain as accurate a picture as possible of the situation prevailing within any particular time-frame in order to determine whatever action is necessary on the basis ... -
Quality Education: Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education and Promote Lifelong Learning Opportunities for All
(2017)Goal 4 aims to make learning opportunities accessible to all. It also examines the quality of education, which plays a large role in sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Investment in human capital at various ... -
Quarterly Report to the 161st Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives - Seventeenth Issue: October-December 2022
(2023-06)This report provides on: 1) significant developments including i) the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), ii) the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15), iii) the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) ... -
Quintozene - Environmental Health Criteria 41
(1984)Technical quintozene (pentachloronitrobenzene) is a white solid with a musty odour, that, is used in formulation as a soil fungicide and as a seed dressing. Hexachlorobenzene is a possible major contaminant in technical ... -
Quintozene Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide No. 23
(1989)Quintozene is a pale yellow-to-white (depending on the purity) solid with a musty odour and a melting point of 142-146 C. It is soluble in carbon disulfide, benzene, chloroform, ketones, and aromatic and chlorinated ... -
Races Ovines Mediterranennes en Regression
(1979)Cet ouvrage est le rapport d'une enqute visant a retrouver et recenser les races ovi-nes moms communes des regions méditerranéennes de l'Europe et de l'Anatolie occidentale, a dresser la carte de leur distribution et a ... -
Radar Design for Determining the Strength of Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal : MARC Report Number 6
(1977)An especially severe and recurring natural disaster is the tropical cyclone particularly as affecting the land surrounding the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. A particularly well documented case there was the cyclone ... -
Radiation: Doses, Effects, Risks - 2nd Edition
(1991)Few scientific issues arouse so much public controversy as the effects of radiation. Scarcely a week seems to go by in developed countries without some expression of public feeling— and, as some developing Countries advance ... -
Radioactivity in the South Pacific - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 40
(1984)This Report is the outcome of the Technical Group's efforts. The Report can be said to have three overall objectives: (i) to provide the general reader with some basic information needed to understand the scientific issues ... -
Radiofrequency and Microwaves - Environmental Health Criteria 16
(1981)Microwave and radiofrequency (RE) radiation constitute part of the whole electromagnetic spectrum. This document is concerned with frequencies lying between 105 and 3 × 1011 Hz (100 kHz and 300 GHz). The term radiofrequency ... -
Rain Forest Regeneration and Management
(1988)Some two weeks after the formal opening of the dam, Guri was the venue for an international workshop on rain forest regeneration and management. The workshop was concerned with the interface between research and management ... -
Raising the Bar - Advancing Environmental Disclosure in Sustainability Reporting
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)This global cross-sector report assesses the environmental dimension of sustainability reporting and provides recommendations to make environmental reporting relevant to all stakeholders. It analyses what the key and most ... -
A Rapid Assessment of the Impacts of the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict on Terrestrial Ecosystems Part Three: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(1991)This report gives an overall assessment of the effects of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict on the terrestrial ecosystems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It also provides a description of the state of the environment in the Kingdom ... -
A Rapid Environmental Assessment of Sudd Wetland Ecosystem in South Sudan
(2022)The Sudd wetland is a designated Ramsar site. It has an estimated area of 57,000 km2 and is one of the largest freshwater ecosystems in the world. The Sudd is an environmental and economic asset that supports livelihoods, ... -
Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Tisza River Basin
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)The report notes that the Tsiza river basin ecosystem is regenerating itself after the cyanide accident, with wildlife largely recovering. But, it says more concerted action is needed to address environmental threats or ... -
Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Tisza RIver Basin
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1998)Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region remain at risk ... -
Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Urban Community of AlFayha’,Lebanon
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Rapid Environmental Assessment Republic of Maldives
(Joint United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/ The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Environment Unit, 2005)On 26 December 2004, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale caused powerful tsunamis that reached the Maldives around 9:30 in the morning. A United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team was ... -
Rapport d'activites 2017: Projet d'Adaptation de la gestion des zones côtières aux changements climatiques
(2018)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/climate-adaptation/ecosystem-based-adaptation
