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Sustainable travel in the United Nations
(2010)
This report seeks to provide guidance on what UN and organizations can do to improve sustainability of their travel, and in particular how to reduce their travel related climate footprints. The report provides an overall ...
Financial Reform, Institutional Investors and Sustainable Development : A Review of Current Policy Initiatives and Proposals for Further Progress
(UNEP, 2015)
This paper provides perspectives and proposals on the relationship between institutional investors and sustainable development. It builds on a Discussion Paper prepared for a workshop hosted by the inquiry and CalPERS in ...
A situation report -The nature and extent of environmental crimes in Seychelles
(Institute for Security Studies, 2009)
This research was undertaken by the Environmental Crime Project (ECP) of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) as part of an eight-country study to determine the nature and extent of environmental crime in Eastern Africa. ...
MDG Report 2014: Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals
(2014)
African Member States have made remarkable progress towards achieving the MDGs despite difficult initial conditions. Indeed, previous MDG Progress Reports for Africa have shown that when effort and initial conditions are ...
Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of Land-based Sources and Activities in the Western Indian Ocean Region.
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), 2009)
This document presents the results of a series of investigations and expert analyses relating to land-based sources of pollution and other activities that cause the degradation of the coastal and marine environment in the ...
Africa’s Adaptation Gap 2: Bridging the Gap – Mobilising Sources
(UNEP, 2015)
The report assesses the wide range of options for triggering the resources needed for closing the adaptation gap.
Third National Report on Implementation of UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Armenia
(Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia, 2006)
The Third National Report has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of UN “Convention to Combat Desertification” and provides information on initiated measures in the Republic of Armenia through 2002-2006 for ...
Waste Atlas Report
(2014)
Most of dumpsites are located in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Northern Asian countries, namely in areas where more than two third of of the Earth’s population lives. According to World Health Organization (WHO), ...