Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Subject "Waste"
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Chemicals and waste: Ensuring sound management of chemicals and waste – UNEP 2015 Annual Report
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)To achieve sound management of chemicals and waste, essential to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 3 on healthy people, UNEP focuses on three areas: The enabling environment – Supporting countries to build the ... -
Issue Paper to the International Confrence on Prevention and Management of Marine Litter in European Seas
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2013)The role of the present Issue Paper to the \"International Conference and Management of Marine Litter in European Seas\" is to establish for the conference's participants a common \"starting point\", from where discussions ... -
Judges and Environmental Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
(Environmental Foundation Limited, 2009)This book looks at the role the law plays and could potentially play in preserving and protecting our natural environment. It brings together in a single volume, six important essays on legal approaches to environmental ... -
Marine Litter in the Baltic Sea Region: Assessment and priorities for response
(Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), 2009)HELCOM marine litter project is the first effort in the region to look into the scale of the problem, the availability of information and the actions needed in the Baltic Sea area. Lack of comparable and reliable data is ... -
Nature-Watch Baltic Report
(Estonian Fund for Nature, 2006)Nature-watch Baltic is an environmental education project for students. The main target group is 13-16-year old students but primary class students and even kindergarten kids have participated. It was launched by WWF Sweden ... -
Study on land-sourced litter (lsl) in the marine environment: Review of sources and literature
(Öko-Institut e.V., 2011)This study on land sourced litter (LSL) was commissioned by four associations of the plastics industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The objectives were to: Gather high-quality data from a detailed literature ... -
The rise of environmental crime: A growing threat to natural resources peace, development and security
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)The environment provides the very foundation of sustainable development, our health, food security and our economies. Ecosystems provide clean water supply, clean air and secure food and ultimately both physical and mental ... -
World Ocean Review 1, Living with the oceans. – A report on the state of the world's oceans
(World Ocean Review(WOR), 2010)Our environmental awareness is steadily increasing, albeit very slowly. This process began when we started to address obvious and visible problems. As a result, our streets, beaches, fields and forests became cleaner, ... -
World Ocean Review 2, The Future of Fish – The Fisheries of the Future
(World Ocean Review(WOR), 2013)Our first World Ocean Review (WOR) was published more than a year ago. This status report took a comprehensive look at the seas and encapsulated the current state of ocean science. It was read by almost 70,000 people, who ... -
World Ocean Review 3, Marine Resources – Opportunities and Risks
(World Ocean Review(WOR), 2014)am delighted to present the third volume in the series. In this World Ocean Review (WOR 3), we focus on marine resources and the opportunities and risks associated with their potential exploitation. Two salient facts merit ... -
World Ocean Review 4, Sustainable Use of Our Oceans – Making Ideas Work
(World Ocean Review(WOR), 2015)Time brings change. In our fast-moving age, the Earth, and therefore also Nature and our society, are changing ever more rapidly. With high population growth and the progressive diversification of labour, we humans are ...
