Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Topic "Environment under review"
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Bangkok: State of Environment 2003
(2003)This SoE report presents the key priority issues of Bangkok, which are analyzed following the "pressure-state-impact-response" (PSIR) framework. The key environmental issues of Bangkok City continue to be air quality, water ... -
Brief on the Guidelines for the Monitoring and Assessment of Plastic Litter in the Ocean: Recommendations and Future Steps
(2019)The principle purpose of this report is to provide recommendations, advice and practical guidance for establishing programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of plastic litter, also referred to as ... -
Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living
(1991)The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new ethic, the ethic for sustainable living, and ... -
Childhood Exposure to Environmental Lead - MARC Report Number 34
(1986)Considerable attention has been given to evaluating the significance of environmental pollution by lead. It has long been known that lead in sufficient quantities is a neurotoxin, but whether general environmental sources ... -
Children and the Environment - The State of the Environment 1990
(1990)This report, issued as a joint contribution by UNEP and UNICEF, summarizes how children have been affected by environmental changes, and vice versa - and what can be done. Time is running out - but it is not yet too late. -
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy - A Global Assessment of the Links between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
(2012)CBO – Action and Policy provides the summary of a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodi- versity, and ecosystem services. Drawing on contributions from more than 120 scientists and policy-makers from ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis - Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(2007)The Working Group I report focuses on those aspects of the current understanding of the physical science of climate change that are judged to be most relevant to policymakers. It does not attempt to review the evolution ... -
Conceptual Framework for Marine Spatial Planning in The Mediterranean
(2018)As reported in the UNEP/MAP Mid-Term Strategy 2016-2021 (MTS), the Contracting Parties, at COP 18 recommended to strengthen MAP activities in the field of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP)1 in order to contribute to GES, ... -
Contingency Plan for the Combating of Oil Pollution in the South-East Pacific in Cases of Emergency - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 43
(1984)The Contingency Plan set forth below is one of the developments under the Action Plan for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the South-East Pacific, signed in Lima on 12 November 1981 by Colombia, ... -
Daten Zur Umwelt 1988/89
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The Ecological Management of Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands in Africa and the Near and Middle East (EMASAR): Formulation of an International Cooperative Programme - Report of an International Conference held in Rome
(1975)In May 1974 an expert consultation was held in Rome, sponsored jointly by FAO and UNEP, to advise on the formulation of an international programme on the ecological management of arid and semi-arid rangelands in Africa and ... -
Ejercicio: Indicador ODS 12.c.1 Sobre los Subsidios a los Combustibles Fósiles
(2021)Objetivo: practicar con un ejemplo real (de México, año 2019) la identificación, compilación y medición de los subsidios a los combustibles fósiles en el contexto de los ODSs. -
The El Nino Phenomenon - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 8
(1992)Places as far apart as Australia and North America, Peru and India are affected by recurrent climatic anomalies known as El Niño. Originating in the Pacific region, El Niño effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ... -
Environment and Development in Africa - UNEP Studies Volume 2
(PERGAMON PRESS, 1981)One may well wonder what forms development in Africa will take between now and the year 2000, and to what degree environmental considerations will be taken into account. Given the environmental problems and development ... -
Environmental Impact Assessment: An Analysis of the Methodological and Substantive Issues Affecting Human Health Considerations - MARC Report Number 41
(1987)A principal mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the promotion of procedures and approaches to planning by governments that can contribute to the improvement of the standard of human health. One of the major ... -
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 ... -
First National Communication of Kenya to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
(2002)This executive summary includes an inventory of greenhouse gases, reports on climate change impacts, vulnerability assessment, identification of adaptation options as well as climate change related policies and measures. -
GEO-6 Key Messages
(2019-07)As an outcome of the negotiation meeting of the summary for policymakers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook, held in Nairobi from 21 to 24 January 2019, the Bureau of the meeting was requested to finalize a “key ... -
A Geographical Information System and Satellite Remote Sensing to Plan for Aquaculture Development: A FAO - UNEP/GRID Cooperative Study in Costa Rica - FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 287
(1987)Planning for aquaculture development has been hindered by a lack of comprehensive information on the land, water, human and economic resources available at national, subnational,and ecosystem levels of organization. -
Global Atmospheric Background Monitoring for Selected Environmental Parameters: BAPMoN Data Volume I: Atmospheric Aerosol Optical Depth
(1978)ThIS publication presents data produced from observational records submitted from stations in the WMO Background Air Pollution Monitoring. Network (BAPM0N), and includes data from additional cooperative stations. The BAPM0N ...
