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Nickel, Nickel Carbonyl, and some Nickel Compounds Health and Safety Guide 62
(1991)Nickel is a naturally occurring, shiny, light-coloured metal with high electrical and thermal conductivities. It is resistant to corrosion by air, water, and alkalis, but reacts with dilute oxidizing agents. -
Nigerian Sustainable Finance Roadmap
(2018)The report highlights major barriers such as market failures, information asymmetries, lack of awareness and lack of consideration of non-financial or longer-term value, as well as opportunity costs that must be tackled. ... -
Nile River Basin: Climate Change Adaptation Capacities in the Nile River Basin
(2015)The main objective of this study was to assess the existing national and regional capacities, the needs and the modalities to tackle the needs identified in order to fast-track climate change adaptation within the basin. ... -
Nile River Basin: Enhancing Communities’ Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Drought-prone Hotspots of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia
(2015-04)A pilot project on ‘’Enhancing communities’ adaptive capacity to climate change in droughtprone hotspots of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia’’ was implemented in Woreilu Wereda, South Wollo of Ethiopia from Oct 2011 to Feb ... -
Nile River Basin: Enhancing the Adaptive Capacity of Communities to Climate Change through IWRM, Mpanga Catchment of theNile Basin in Uganda
(2015)The Project - supported by UNEP - was implemented in the upper Nile Basin, in Uganda. The Mpanga catchment where activities were rolled out is part of the Lake George Basin / The Lake Albert Water Management Zone and is ... -
Nile River Basin: Nile Basin Adaptation to Water Stress: Comprehensive Assessment of Flood & Drought Prone Areas
(2015)This report is a contribution to the UNEP project “Adapting to climate change induced water stress in the Nile River Basin”. It summarises the technical developments and assessments carried out under Work package WP1.1 ... -
Nile River Basin: Stock Taking of Adaptation Activities in the Nile River Basin
(2015)This desktop review was undertaken with the aim of identifying key stakeholders and partners at continental, sub-regional, basin, national and local levels, with a particular focus on a wide range of actors such as ... -
Nile River Basins: Review of Adaptation Best Practice Examples in the Nile River Basin Region
(2015)UNEP recognizes the importance of the Nile River Basin in the context of a variable and changing climate and hence the imperative to design and pilot adaptation options at basin level. The objective of this report was to ... -
Nitrates, Nitrites, and N-Nitroso Compounds - Environmental Health Criteria 5
(1978)A WHO Task Group on Environmental Health Criteria for Nitrates, Nitrites and N-nitroso compounds met in Lyons from 16 to 20 February 1976. The Task Group reviewed and amended the second draft of the criteria document and ... -
Nitrogen Oxides (Second Edition) - Environmental Health Criteria 188
(1997)Nitrogen oxides can be present at significant concentrations in ambient air and in indoor air. The types and concentrations of nitrogenous compounds present can vary greatly from location to location, with time of day, and ... -
Nitrogen: Strategies for resolving an urgent environmental problem
(German Advisory Council on the Environment, 2015)The excessive release of nitrogen compounds into the environment is one of the biggest problems of our time. Nitrogen compounds, such as nitrogen oxides and ammonia, pollute the environment and endanger human health in ... -
No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Applying the Mitigation Hierarchy and Biodiversity Offsets as Tools to Achieve Sustainable Development in the Western Indian Ocean
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018)The Western Indian Ocean is one of the richest regions of the world for biodiversity. It comprises diverse ecosystems both in terms of biodiversity and the ecosystem services provided, as is the case of coral reefs and ... -
No Poverty: End Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere
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NOAA Arctic Action Plan
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2014)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is actively engaged in the Arctic, providing science, service, and stewardship to this rapidly changing region, its inhabitants, and the Nation. Through its broad ... -
NOAA Arctic Vision and Strategy
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2011)For centuries annual sea ice has protected the Arctic and its inhabitants. Now the Arctic, both on land and sea, is being transformed by significant warming. The melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is happening at a ... -
Noise: Executive Summary- Environmental Health Criteria 12
(1980)Noise is considered to be any unwanted sound that may adversely affect the health and wellbeing of individuals or populations. Physically, sound is a mechanical disturbance propagated as a longitudinal wave motion in air ... -
Non-timber forest Products in Uganda: spatial tools supporting sustainable development
(UNEP, 2006)The importance of natural resources in supporting rural livelihoods is increasingly being recognized in national and international policy. Approaches to development are required that enable incomes to be derived from ... -
North America: Actions Taken by Governments to Improve Air Quality
(2017)This report summarises ten actions being undertaken in the sub-region to improve air quality. In selecting these ten actions, consideration was given to their replicability, global appropriateness to address particular air ... -
North Asia: Actions Taken by Governments to Improve Air Quality
(2017)This report summarises ten actions being undertaken in the sub-region to improve air quality. In selecting these ten actions, consideration was given to their replicability, global appropriateness to address particular air ... -
North, South and West Europe: Actions taken by Governments to Improve Air Quality
(2017)This report summarises ten actions being undertaken in the sub-region to improve air quality. In selecting these ten actions, consideration was given to their replicability, global appropriateness to address particular air ...