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Public Health Problems in the Coastal Zone of the East African Region: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 009
(1984)
Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 009. UNEP 1982: Public health problems in the coastal zone of the East African region
Forests in a Green Economy: A Synthesis
(2011)
This synthesis examines the critical role of forests in a green economy, and provides policy recommendations to radically transform the forest sector such that it can lead to sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Financing a global deal on climate change
(UNEP, 2009)
The scale of capital expenditure needed over the next decades to effectively address climate change will have to come jointly from public and private sources. This paper contains a set of practical proposals that if ...
Khaidarkan mercury: addressing primary mercury mining in Kyrgyzstan
(UNEP, 2009)
This overview document outlines the situation regarding the world’s last known exporting mercury mine at Khaidarkan in southern Kyrgyzstan. For the past two years, significant efforts have been taking place at the international ...
Green economy: an analysis of challenges and opportunities
(UNEP, 2013)
The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 marked the first time that the special characteristics of SIDS were paid significant attention and were recognized as a distinct group. In 1994, the first Global Conference on the ...
State of Environment Report - American Samoa
(American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency, 2002)
The 2002 State of Environment Report is a brief ' environmental report card' on the resources of the Territory. The report is designed to provide American Samoan residents and policy makers with a foundation to build their ...
World resources 2002-2004 : decisions for the earth : balance, voice, and power
(UNEP, 2003)
World Resources 2002-2004 examines how we make environmental decisions and who makes them, which is the process of environmental governance. The report argues that better environmental governance is one of the most direct ...
The working capital report
(UNEP, 2007)
The Working Capital Report traces a number of the key developments that have accelerated the evaluation of ESG issues within mainstream finance, investment and the capital markets. The report also provides an opportunity ...
Our Planet 40 years of WED
(UNEP, 2012)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine.
The environmental food crisis
(UNEP, 2009)
The surge in food prices in the last years, following a century of decline, has been the most marked of the past century in its magnitude, duration and the number of commodity groups whose prices have increased. The ensuing ...