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From conflict to peacebuilding: The role of natural resources and the environment - A PBSO briefing prepared in cooperation with UNEP
(2008)
This PBSO briefing paper prepared in cooperation with UNEP highlights the role of natural resources in conflict and peacebuilding. It uses case studies to cover topics including the role of natural resources and the ...
UNEP Chemicals Newsletter
(2006-10)
A UN Environment Chemicals and Waste Branch Newsletter that is published periodically to give readers world-wide an update of activities to promote the environmentally sound management of chemicals and so help protect ...
UNEP Chemicals Newsletter
(2005-05)
A UN Environment Chemicals and Waste Branch Newsletter that is published periodically to give readers world-wide an update of activities to promote the environmentally sound management of chemicals and so help protect ...
Energy - Our Planet Vol. 14 No. 3 2004
(UNEP, 2004)
Access to energy is essential if the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the WSSD Plan of Implementation are to be achieved, and the proportion of the world’s people in poverty is to be halved by 2015.
Managing natural resources in post-conflict societies: Lessons in making the transition to peace (17-18 September 2007)
(2007-09)
The United Nations Environment Programme and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Specialist Group on Armed Conflict and the Environment held a joint workshop in Geneva on 17-18 September 2007 to exchange experiences ...
Women, Health and the Environment - Our Planet Vol. 15 No. 2
(2004)
This edition of Our Planet celebrates women, and underlines their unique vulnerability to environment-related health problems, from water and sanitation issues to ones of indoor air pollution.
World Heritage and Protected Areas - Our Planet Vol. 14 No. 2
(2003)
The United Nations Foundation has become the first funding organization to designate the elite World Heritage sites as the explicit focus of its biodiversity work. The increased resources and vigour that it has brought to ...
From conflict to peacebuilding: The role of natural resources and the environment: Chair summary
(2008-05)
"Peacebuilding Commission’s Working Group meeting on Lessons Learned summary. While quite diverse in nature, the debate was instrumental in highlighting the need to build national capacities, institutions and policies ...
SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS) BOOKLET
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2002)
This publication highlights UNEP efforts since 1994, with emphasis on the last five years of
assisting SIDS in implementing the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of
Small Island Developing States. ...
2006-2007 UNEP/ UNESCO / AAU / UNU/GVU Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability into African Universities Partnership AWARDS
(2007)
The MESA Universities Partnership aims to enhance the quality and policy relevance of university education in Africa through the implementation of environment and sustainability as an underlying topic in diverse curricula ...