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Our Planet: Making Our Future Chemical-Safe
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2015)
Chemicals are used in almost every area of the world economy. The future of sustainable development is therefore inseparable from the way chemicals are managed from their design to production, use and disposal. In this ...
Caribbean Environment Programme - Our Planet Special Issue 2006
(UNEP, 2006)
Our Planet special issue: Caribbean Environment Programme
Healthy Planet, Healthy People - Our Planet May 2015
(2015)
Perhaps nowhere is the importance of a well-managed environment as clear as in human health”, write Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Margaret Chan, Director-General ...
Global Climate Action: Innovations and Best Practices - Our Planet December 2015
(UNEP, 2015)
The momentum towards a low-carbon economy is unstoppable. This is the year in which the world not only decided that growth must be sustainable, equitable and low carbon, but also took crucial strides towards the inclusive, ...
Growing a green economy in Africa: why forests matter
(UNEP, 2015)
There is economic potential in African forests but it is threatened by an increasing demand for forest products, and by encroachment from other sectors. The Briefing explores the potential of a ‘green economy’ approach to ...
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 ...
Climate for Life - Our Planet November 2014
(UNEP, 2014)
The interaction between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas are the focus of this issue of Our Planet. Protected areas are important carbon storage facilities, so their maintenance and expansion is a key ...
Energy, Finance and Climate Change - Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 3
(2006)
Investment that takes account of environmental, social and governmental issues both makes economic sense and meets the wider and deeper goals so many of us espouse.
Green Cities - Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 1
(2005)
The battles to eradicate poverty and deliver the Millennium Development Goals will be won or lost by whether we can manage the urban environment effectively and creatively. If we can – as the examples of Dar es Salaam and ...
RIO+20: From Outcome to Implementation - Our Planet February 2013
(2013)
The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development. This issue details the Rio+20 outcome to Implementation