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    • Asia Protected Planet Report 2014: Tracking progress towards targets for protected areas in Asia 

      United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2014)
      This report assesses progress towards the achievement of elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in 24 selected countries in East Asia, South Asia and South-east Asia. These are referred to as the “Asia Region” throughout ...
    • COVID19 and Impacts on Environmental Human Rights Defenders and Environmental Protection in Southeast Asia 

      United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (2022-03)
      This report examines the positive and negative impacts of the decrees, laws and other government policies on environmental rights that were either enacted in response to COVID-19 or passed during the pandemic. This rapid ...
    • Delivery of Biocontrol Technologies to IPM Farmers: Vietnam 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2000)
      UNEP and CABI have initiated a series of case studies to consider critical issues in the delivery of biocontrol technology to the 1PM Farmers. The following case study undertaken in Vietnam highlights the constraints to ...
    • Economic Valuation of Wastewater: The Cost of Action and the Cost of No Action 

      DEPI (United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
      This book presents the results of an analytical study on the economic valuation for wastewater, comparing the cost of no action versus the cost of effective wastewater management. Although economic valuation of wastewater ...
    • Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Assessment Report for the UNEP International Resource Panel 

      United Nations Environment Programme; International Resource Panel (2016)
      This report finds that global material use has tripled over the past four decades, with annual global extraction of materials growing from 22 billion tonnes (1970) to 70 billion tonnes (2010). It also provides a new material ...
    • Guidebook On National Legislation For Adaptation To Climate Change 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2011)
      This Guidebook, which is based on the outcome of a UNEP pilot project that was carried out in three South East Asian countries in 2009-2010 - Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam - is intended to serve as a tool to help decision-makers ...
    • Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2021)
      This Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs informs on the 92 environment-related SDG indicators, analyzes the progress made in achieving the SDG targets and identifies data gaps. The statistical approach uses simple ...
    • World heritage and tourism in a changing climate 

      Unknown author (United Nations Environment ProgrammeUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2016)
      This report provides an overview of the increasing vulnerability of World Heritage sites to climate change impacts and the potential implications for and of global tourism. It also examines the close relationship between ...