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Responsible Banking: Building Foundations - The first collective progress report of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking signatories
(2021)
The report provides an update of signatories’ progress in implementing the principles. Signatories’ progress is assessed according to their fulfilment of three key steps:
1. Analysis of their current impact on people and ...
The Role of Remote Sensing and Social Research in Monitoring the Environmental Impact of Refugee/Internally Displaced Persons Camps - Foresight Brief No. 032 January 2024
Across the world, men, women and children are being displaced by conflict, economic conditions and climate change. Camps are set up to house displaced people as a short-term solution, but in many cases the displaced are ...
Principes Directeurs Pour l'Evaluation de l'Impact sur l'Environnement des Industries et les Critères Environnementaux de Leur Implantation
(1981)
Les principes directeurs formulés par le PNUE a donner un cadre de travail permettant d'organiser et d'entreprendre une E.I.E. en fonction des conditions prédorinantes. Le texte principal des principes directeurs est divisé ...
Learning to Manage Land Sustainably with Climate Change Mitigation Co-benefits: Lessons from the Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Mitigation Co-benefits (SLM-CCMC) Project
(2021)
The Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Mitigation Co-benefits (SLM-CCMC) project used and improved on carbon and
greenhouse gas accounting tools to make it easier for SLM practitioners to estimate the climate ...
Advancing Delivery on Decarbonisation Targets: The Second Progress report of the Net-zero Asset Owner Alliance
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-09)
The Alliance’s activities are characterised by a combination of ambition, leadership, and an abiding commitment to collaboration. As this report reveals, recent years have witnessed a growing number of asset owners embrace ...
Earth and Faith : A Book of Reflection for Action
(2000)
Reflection on links between faith and environmental protection.
Handbook for the Fifth Montevideo Programme on the Progressive Development and Implementation of Environmental Law
The Montevideo Programme V secretariat has developed this digital handbook that highlights the Programme’s objectives, activities and outcomes in order to raise awareness and enhance understanding of the Programme by ...
Consumer Information Tools and Climate Change: Facilitating low-carbon choices in Tourism, Buildings and Food Systems - Guidance for Policy Makers and Business Leaders
(2020)
This report details how the use of consumer information tools can support greenhouse gas emission reductions in three industry sectors: tourism, buildings and food. Consumer information covers a range of tools and systems ...
Technical Guidelines - Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future in Construction Sector in Mexico
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)
The efficiency of the management of resources in attendance to climate change is a key issue for the articulation of climate agendas, sustainable production and consumption, industrial environmental regulation and initiatives ...
Chapter 5. Maladaptation to Climate Change: Avoiding Pitfalls on the Evolvability Pathway - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
As climate change negotiations progressed, researchers examined how and why some adaptation actions go awry, particularly those actions that waste substantial amounts of human, natural, or financial resources. Maladaptation ...