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UNEP Guide for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Laws
(2016-09)
The Guide describes the key legal issues associated with efficiency and renewable energy resource development, and presents legislative options from both developed and developing countries for dealing with them, including ...
Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals
(2019)
This report provides methodological guidance for measuring fossil fuel subsidies in the context of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 12.c.1: “Amount of fossil fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and ...
UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines for the Integrated Management of Mountain Ecosystems
(1995)
The purposes of these guidelines are first to provide general background information useful for integrated land/soil management in mountain ecosystems. Second, the guidelines detail key techniques for integrated management ...
Handbook of Environmental Law
(1997)
This Handbook is intended to be a handy reference book of up-to-date information on environmental law. It provides a source of quick and easy reference for governments, institutions, NGOs and the public needing to use basic ...
Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements
(2022-04)
This guide is intended to help customs and border control officers in ensuring implementation of national legislation, transposing the agreements under the Green Customs Initiative (GCI), and thus promoting national ...
Understanding the State of the Ocean: A Global Manual on Measuring SDG 14.1.1, SDG 14.2.1 and SDG 14.5.1
(2021)
This report aims to provide guidance on how to bring together traditional monitoring techniques with new technologies and data science in order to better monitoring our oceans in the context of the SDGs. The report focuses ...
Landfill of Hazardous Industrial Wastes: A Training Manual - Technical Report No. 17
(1993)
This is the 17th publications in a Technical Report Series that regroups the Guidelines, Overviews, Technical Reviews, and Workshop Proceedings previously published by UNEP IE/PAC. The regrouping into a single series will ...
Monitoring Plastics in Rivers and Lakes: Guidelines for the Harmonization of Methodologies
(2021)
The purpose of this report is to provide guidelines for the assessment of plastic contamination, from macro- to
microplastics, in freshwater environments. It provides the most current procedures for monitoring and ...
Sustainable Public Procurement Implementation Guidelines: Introducing UNEP’s Approach
(2012)
These Guidelines aim to give direction to governments on designing and implementing sustainable public procurement (SPP) policies and action plans. The Guidelines and the associated UNEP’s SPP Approach are hereon referred ...
Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities
(2021)
The Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities is undertaken within the framework of the UNEP Cool Coalition. The objective of the report is to present a comprehensive overview of sustainable urban cooling ...