Browsing Manuals, Guides and Toolkits by Topic "Environmental Governance"
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Accelerating the Global Adoption of Energy-efficient and Climate-friendly Air Conditioners
(2017)This guide focuses on room air conditioners and is intended to provide policy makers with information and best-practice case studies on how to promote energy-efficient and climate friendly room air conditioners in their ... -
Accelerating to Energy-efficient Products by Product Registration - Guidance Note 4: Implementing a Product Registration System
(2019)This guidance note is the fourth of a series of guidance notes prepared by United for Efficiency (U4E) and covers the process of implementing a product registration system from initial planning, through to designing, ... -
Accelerating to Energy-efficient Products by product Registration Systems - Guidance Note 2: Planning to Build – Foundational Considerations
(2019)This guidance note is the second of a series of guidance notes prepared by United for Efficiency (U4E) and aims to detail a range of important items that need to be considered in general before embarking on the development ... -
Accelerating to Energy-efficient Products by Product Registration Systems: Guidance Note 3 - Planning to Build – Detailed Considerations
(2019)This guidance note is the third of a series of guidance notes prepared by United for Efficiency (U4E) and aims to cover important items of detail that need to be considered during the development of a product registration ... -
Addressing Climate-related Security Risks: Conflict Sensitivity for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods - Monitoring & Evaluation Note
(2022-07)This M&E note supports the monitoring and evaluation of strategies, policies, and projects that seek to increase resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and sustainable livelihoods. It accompanies ... -
Asia Toolkit Project on Inventories of Dioxin and Furan Releases National PCDD/PCDF Inventories
(2003)This Toolkit had been developed by UNEP Chemicals to assist countries in undertaking inventories of dioxin and furan releases, and to do so in a harmonized and rigorous manner. -
Business Impacts on Human Rights, the Environment and Peace building: A toolkit for women and women human rights and environmental defenders in Sierra Leone
(2021-12)This is a toolkit for women in Liberia and Sierra Leone who live in communities where business activities have a large impact on the management of natural resources, land, human rights, and the risk of conflict. The toolkit ... -
Business Impacts on Human Rights, the Environment and Peacebuilding: A Toolkit for Women and Women Human Rights and Environmental Defenders in Liberia and Sierra Leone
(2021-12)This toolkit on business, human rights, and the environment (BHRE) in post-conflict situations is developed as a practical tool for human rights and environmental defenders and local civil society organisations to gain ... -
Children’s Rights and the Environment: Guidance on Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
(2020)This guidance seeks to provide a concise guide to reporting on children’s rights as they relate to environmental issues. It is primarily intended to assist civil society organizations from both the human rights and ... -
China National Training Manual Capacity Building for Coastal Spatial Planning
(2012-08)China training syllabus on spatial planning in coastal areas details the regional training activities and capacity building associated with mitigating emergency issues, including climate change and sea-level-rise. The ... -
Compendium of Global Environmental Constitutionalism: Selected Cases and Materials 2019 (Second Edition)
(2019)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
Compendium of WHO and other UN Guidance on Health and Environment
(World Health Organization, 2021)This compendium provides a systematic compilation of published guidance from WHO and other UN organizations on all major areas of health and the environment. This guidance also includes information about ways to raise ... -
Developing Baseline Estimates of Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities: A Practical Guide
(2015)This guide is an educational and training document that can be used as a practical introduction to conducting baseline estimates of mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) communities. -
Directory of Experts and Institutions on Soils and Fertilizers in Africa
(1995)The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) decided and recommended the establishment of Eight Regional Technical Cooperation Networks on environment and ecodevelopment in Africa during their meeting in ... -
Disaster Waste Management Guidelines
(2013)These guidelines provide advice and tools to overcome these challenges and manage disaster waste in emergency and take out early recovery phases. They are targeted at implementers of disaster waste management projects. ... -
Energy Efficiency and Functional Performance Requirements Based on International Standards - Model Regulation Guidelines
(2022)The electricity demand in developing and emerging countries is expected to more than double by 2030. Consequently, dramatically increased greenhouse gas emissions are predicted. Energy-efficient technologies available as ... -
Energy Efficiency and Functional Performance Requirements for Linear Lighting - Model Regulation Guidelines
(2021-02)This model regulation guideline is a supplement to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) United for Efficiency (U4E) Lighting Policy Guide “Accelerating the Global Adoption of Energy-Efficient Lighting.” And it covers ... -
Enhancing the Uptake and Impact of Corporate Sustainability Reporting: A Handbook and Toolkit for Policymakers and Relevant Stakeholders
(2019)Corporate sustainability reporting constitutes an essential lever for the transformation of companies’ practices and for ensuring their contribution to sustainable development. It represents a potential mechanism for ... -
Environmental Action Pack for Hotels: Practical Steps to Benefit your Business and the Environment - UNEP Industry and Environment Technical Report No. 31
(1995)The aim of this Action Pack is to help you introduce environmental management as an extension to the daily running of your business - it does not need considerable additional time or money. The Action Pack seeks to help ... -
Environmental Citizenship through Applied Community Service Learning: Course Curriculum - Version 2017
(2017)Community Service Learning (CSL) is a philosophy and practice developed out of the education and environmental movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s. When it was recognized that traditional teaching methods were failing in ...