Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Topic "Environment under review"
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2015 Situation Report on International Migration: Migration, Displacement and Development in a Changing Arab Region
(2015)While international migration is one of the main factors driving economic and social change in the Arab region, the continuing displacement of populations occurring in several countries of the region remains one of the ... -
Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme: A Framework for Sustainable Development
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1987)This Action Plan represents an expression of goals and a programme agenda, adopted by participating Governments, that is consistent with a growing worldwide concern for the conservation and development of marine and coastal ... -
Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN): Strengthening Environmental Assessment and Report
(2004)The implementation of the Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN) initiative to support the Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) reporting process is now underway with 13 countries fully involved in the pilot phase and ... -
African Green Stimulus Programme - Draft 08 January 2021
(2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated economic, societal and environmental challenges globally and especially in Africa. The ripple effects of the largescale worldwide disruption brought about by the Pandemic ... -
Ammonia Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 37
(1990)Ammonia is a colourless acrid-smelling gas at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Most people can identify its odour at 35 mg/rn3 in air. It can be stored and transported as a liquid at a pressure of 10 ... -
Assessment of Complementarities between GGGI’s Green Growth Index and UNEP’s Green Economy Progress Index - GGGI Technical Report No. 10
(2019)This report assesses the complementarities between these two indices and discusses their main similarities and differences. It also presents the results from the global applications of both indices, including a detailed ... -
Bangkok: State of Environment 2003
(2003)This SoE report presents the key priority issues of Bangkok, which are analyzed following the "pressure-state-impact-response" (PSIR) framework. The key environmental issues of Bangkok City continue to be air quality, water ... -
A Bibliography of the Annual Sessions of the Governing Council 1973 - 1983
(1983)This bibliography is the second in the series devoted to the documents produced by the United Nations Environment Programme. Like the first bibliography, it serves as a user's guide to the holdings of the UNEP Library and ... -
Brief on the Guidelines for the Monitoring and Assessment of Plastic Litter in the Ocean: Recommendations and Future Steps
(2019)The principle purpose of this report is to provide recommendations, advice and practical guidance for establishing programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of plastic litter, also referred to as ... -
Buts et principes de l'évaluation de l'impact sur l'environnment: (Décision 14/25 du Conseil d'administration du PNUE en date du 17 juin 1987) - Droit de l'environnement: Lignes Directrices et Principes 9
(1987)Las buts et Les principes de l'EIE énoncés dans ce document ont par nécessité an caractère général et pourront être davantage affinés au cours des travaux d'évaluation accompils aux niveaux national, régional et international. -
Can Television Tell the Environmental Story?: Report of the Seminar "Visual Media and the Environment" - CEP Technical Report 28
(1993)This paper highlights some of the major environmental issues or concerns in the Caribbean and indicate some of the steps towards dealing with them. This focus on environmental issues of prime concern to the Caribbean is ... -
Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living
(1991)The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new ethic, the ethic for sustainable living, and ... -
Changing Course: Real Estate - TCFD Pilot Project report and Investor Guide to Scenario-Based Climate Risk Assessment in Real Estate Portfolios
(2019)A UNEP FI Investor Pilot on Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Adoption, a collaborative effort of 20 institutional investors to develop methodologies for forward-looking, scenario-based assessments ... -
Chemical Risk Assessment: Human Risk Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment - Training Module No. 3
(1999)There has been a dramatic increase in the use of chemicals in recent years, many of them new compounds and mixtures whose toxicological properties have not previously been studied and which might prove to be harmful to ... -
Childhood Exposure to Environmental Lead - MARC Report Number 34
(1986)Considerable attention has been given to evaluating the significance of environmental pollution by lead. It has long been known that lead in sufficient quantities is a neurotoxin, but whether general environmental sources ... -
Children and the Environment - The State of the Environment 1990
(1990)This report, issued as a joint contribution by UNEP and UNICEF, summarizes how children have been affected by environmental changes, and vice versa - and what can be done. Time is running out - but it is not yet too late. -
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy - A Global Assessment of the Links between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
(2012)CBO – Action and Policy provides the summary of a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodi- versity, and ecosystem services. Drawing on contributions from more than 120 scientists and policy-makers from ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis - Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(2007)The Working Group I report focuses on those aspects of the current understanding of the physical science of climate change that are judged to be most relevant to policymakers. It does not attempt to review the evolution ... -
Co-operation for Environmental Protection in the Pacific - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 97
(1988)The Regional Seas Programme was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1974 in response to the selection of the oceans as a priority area by the UNEP Governing Council. It is a global programme ... -
Coastal and Marine Environmental Problems of the United Republic of Tanzania. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 106 - Annexes
(1989)The report consists of a summary describing specific coastal and marine environmental problems of the United Republic of Tanzania such as coral reef destruction, mangrove cutting, fisheries over-exploitation and unnecessary ...
