Browsing UNEP Publications Pre-2023 by Title
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Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kampala
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Kampala, Uganda, that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the lens ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kathmandu
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on peri-urban agriculture in the Kathmandu Valley. This assessment locates peri-urban agriculture within larger, ongoing change occurring in the Kathmandu Valley's ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Tamale
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Tamale, Ghana, that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the lens of ... -
Buildings and climate change: status, challenges and opportunities
(UNEP, 2007)As one of the products of the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Initiative (SBCI), this publication outlines the salient features of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from building use and construction. The ... -
Buildings and Climate Change: Summary for Decision Makers
(2009)This Summary for Decision-Makers presents the current state of thinking on how the potential for greenhouse gas emission reductions in buildings can be realized. It was compiled by the Sustainable Building and Climate ... -
Buildings: Investing in Energy and Resource Efficiency - Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication
The chapter makes a strong economic case greening the building sector, and provides guidance on policies and instruments needed to bring about this transformation. The chapter encompasses both new construction and the ... -
The Business Case for Eco-innovation
(2014)This publication sets out to demonstrate the compelling business case for eco-innovation and how it can enable your company to carve out commercially interesting opportunities. -
Capacity building for sustainable development: an overview of UNEP environmental capacity development initiatives
(UNEP, 2002)This publication details the broad scope of UNEP's capacity building for wise environmental management. -
Carbon Pools and Multiple Benefits of Mangroves in Central Africa: Assessment for REDD+
(2014)This report presents the results of a study carried out to assess the carbon pools, ecosystem services and multiple benefits of the mangroves in the Central African countries of Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo (RoC) and ... -
Caribbean Environment Outlook
(, 1999)The Caribbean Environment Outlook (CEO) is part of a UNEP project to produce state of the environment assessments for the countries of the Caribbean, Western Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands. The objective of the CEO is ... -
Caribbean Environment Outlook
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2004)Over the last three decades, environmental degradation and the unsustainable use of natural resources have reduced the availability of ecosystem goods and services, with negative consequences for sustainable social and ... -
Caribbean Environment Outlook: special edition for the International Meeting for the 10-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action
(UNEP, 2005)The Caribbean Environment Outlook assesses the state of the environment in the Caribbean SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States in terms of the environmental concerns identified in the BPOA and the driving forces of the ... -
Carpathians Environment Outlook, 2007
(UNEP, 2007)This publication is an integrated assessment on the state of, and trend related to, the environment of the Carpathian Mountains. -
The Cartagena Protocol on Biodiversity: A Record of the Negotiations
(2000)The present volume serves as an excellent reference point in this respect. By reflecting the differing views during the genesis of the Protocol and painstakingly charting the negotiation of individual provisions, including ... -
A Case of Benign Neglect: Knowledge Gaps about Sustainability in Pastoralism and Rangelands
(2019)This report directly responds to one of the resolutions approved at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in May 2016, which acknowledges the dearth of information on pastoralism and rangelands. The resolution ... -
Case studies on alternatives to methyl bromide, Volume 2: technologies with low environmental impact in countries with economies in transition
(UNEP, 2003)UNEP has compiled this document of six case studies to encourage farmers, extension agencies, researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders from the CEIT region to examine environmentally sustainable techniques, ... -
Case studies on alternatives to methyl bromide: technologies with low environmental impact
(UNEP, 2000)Provides methyl bromide users with information that will assist them in selecting commercially available, low impact (i.e., environmentally friendly) alternatives to methyl bromide. This publication is comprised of 18 ... -
Casebook on innovative activities for achieving sustainable development In Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2015)The casebook shares not only lessons from project innovations and implementation, but successful initial and long-term project results in pilot communities. It identifi es an array of crucial project factors, highlighting ... -
Catalysing Science-Based Policy Action on Sustainable Consumption and Production: The Value-Chain Approach & its Application to Food, Construction and Textiles
(2021)This report, requested by countries at the Fourth meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly, provides an overview of how the value chain approach has been applied to the information of the International Resource ... -
Central Asia Waste Management Outlook
(2017)Central Asia is transforming itself from a region bogged down by mining and industrial waste legacies and poor municipal waste management to a safer and more pleasant place to live through site clean-ups and increasingly ...