UNEP Articles
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Project - UNEP-Infoterra
ISEP engages fully in the international exchange of environmental information through active participation in the UNEP-Infoterra network. Through CEDAR (Central European Environmental Data Request Facility), ISEP provides a number of globally used mailing lists, i.e. communication media between environmental experts, interested persons, government official and others. The mailing lists can be ...
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Occupied Palestine Territories
The Seventh Special Session of the Governing Coun- cil of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/Global Ministerial Environment Forum held in February 2002, adopted unanimously a decision concerning the environmental situation in the Occupied Palestin- ian Territories (GCSS. VII/7). The Governing Council requested UNEP to carry out a desk study as a first step in the implementation ...
By IOS Press
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United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) –Sustainable Building Climate Initiative (SBCI) ‘Greening the Building Supply Chain’ report
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) –Sustainable Building Climate Initiative (SBCI) ‘Greening the Building Supply Chain’ report The client United Nations Environment Programme’s Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI). The challenge To produce one of the first ever ground breaking reports examining the building supply chain. To help ...
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Life Cycle Management-Capability Maturity Model (LCM-CMM) pilot projects 2014
As part of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) project on integration ofresource efficiency in international supply chains funded by the European Commission, UNEP had announced call for proposals from companies interested in implementing Life Cycle Management Capability Maturity Model (LCM-CMM) in their business management and operations. Two pilot projects were awarded in India ...
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Contributing to the Realisation of the Johannesburg Commitments
The 22nd Session of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council and the 4th Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) was convened at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, from 3 to 7 Febru- ary 2003. Owing to the fact that this was the first high-level meeting following the World Summit on Sustainable De- velopment (WSSD), Johannesburg, South Africa,1 there was a very high ...
By IOS Press
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UNEP Hotspot Project, 2018
FICCI in association with UN Environment are working on project with an objective of Mapping the textile value chain, identifying key hotspots at global level and assessing trade barriers & opportunities. The desired final outcome is to develop a report identifying key hotspots and intervention points, as well as trade barriers and opportunities, to enable sustainable textile value chains. ...
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Judges Active in Promoting Environmental Law Capacity Building
The pre-summit WSSD Global Judges Symposium on the Role of Law and Sustainable Development in Johannesburg between 18–20 August 2002 was a signal event. Never before have so many senior judges from so many nations come together to discuss environmental law. In fact, 126 judges, including 32 Chief Justices or their equivalent, from 60 countries participated. Besides national judges, the group also ...
By IOS Press
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Water Reuse and Conservation
According to the UNEP (United Nations Environment Program, Global Environment Outlook 3, 2002), the total volume of water on earth is about 1,400 million cubic km (kilometers), of which, only 2.5 per cent, or about 35 million cubic km, is freshwater. Most freshwater is locked up in glaciers, or in deep groundwater aquifers. The usable portion of freshwater is only about 200,000 cubic km of water. ...
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New Environmental Law Centre for the Developing World
The Parvez Hassan Environmental Law Centre (PHELC) was inaugurated on 15 February 2003 in La- hore (Pakistan). The 350 participants included the Gover- nor of the Punjab, also in his capacity as Chancellor of the University, the Chief Justice, several Vice-Chancellors and Deans of Law Schools, the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), ...
By IOS Press
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The Climate Change Convention: how it was made and what it means
This paper describes the origins and intentions of the Climate Change Convention which was opened for signature at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) last year.Keywords: Climate Change Convention, European Community, financial resources, Framework Convention, international law, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, OECD, technology transfer, UNCED, United Nations, ...
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Project - Developing Readiness for Creation of Indian LCA Database/datasets, 2015
FICCI in collaboration with the UNEP had initiated a project on 'Development of the enabling conditions to create an Indian LCA Database'. The objective of this project was to develop common understanding among key stakeholders on basic issues concerning the creation of Indian datasets and therefore, enhance the usability of LCA. Multiple consultations with key stakeholders were held to identify ...
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Cleaner Production and Eco-efficiency - Complementary Approaches to Sustainable Development
This report was produced jointly by the WBCSD and UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). It demonstrates that these concepts are finding practical applications by being translated into operating policies and business strategies worldwide. Cleaner production and eco-efficiency go beyond pollution prevention and are moving towards resource productivity, life-cycle thinking, performance ...
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UNEP Report ‘Greening the building Supply Chain'
UNEP Report ‘Greening the building Supply Chain’ Recently released, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI) ‘Greening the Building Supply Chain’ report aims to tackle the sector’s oversized environmental footprint. There remains a relative lack of understanding about how building supply chains could ...
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Project - LCA awards (2017-18)
Life Cycle Initiative at UNEP Paris launched the 2017 LCA Awards scheme in June at CILCA 2017 in Medellin Columbia with an objective of encouraging the use of LCA/M approaches and develop regional capability to use LCA tools for improved decision-making in developing countries. 62 applications were received under the scheme, out of which 44 were accepted for implementing practical projects from ...
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WRI and UNEP submission to the UNFCCC for increasing ambition
In Cancun at COP16/CMP6, UNFCCC Parties agreed to limit a rise in global average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to consider strengthening this goal to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The UNEP report Bridging the Emissions Gap, released in 2011, found that current country pledges for 2020 are not adequate to reduce emissions to a level consistent with the 2 degree or 1.5 ...
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Building the climate change regime: survey and analysis of approaches
We are falling short. The world recognizes the urgency of the climate challenge. The risks of unabated climate change are well documented and its impacts are already affecting people and ecosystems. Yet despite a global commitment by most of the world’s governments in 1992 to stabilize anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) at safe levels, emissions are still on the rise and pledges of future ...
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Earnings, jobs and innovation: the role of recycling in a green economy
1 Recycling and the green economy A green economy balances economic goals with a focus on social equity and maintaining environmental systems. Recycling contributes to a green economy in numerous ways, including enhancing resource efficiency, reducing environmental impacts from raw material extraction, generating jobs and business opportunities and ensuring secure supplies of essential ...
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Integrated risk assessment in Pasig, Laguna de Bay area, Philippines: a case study
In the Philippines, formal quantitative risk assessment is relatively undeveloped. There has been no consistent and objective approach to assessing risks, and emergency planning by industries is not based on objective assessment of their risks. It was in this context that a study was undertaken under the aegis of the IAEA/UNEP/WHO/UNIDO Inter-Agency project. From the data collected in ...
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Environmental change and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Environmental changes are especially pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Land degradation is nowadays a major concern for 32 countries in Africa, and over 300 million people in SSA face water scarcity (UNEP, 2008). To what extent are environmental factors likely to trigger migration in SSA? To shed some light on the question, this paper provides the latest figures and information. The ...
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Q&A: Achim Steiner on science in the post-2015 goals
As executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Achim Steiner has been at the forefront of international conferences on environment and sustainable development, including the Rio+20 conference in June 2012. SciDev.Net caught up with him at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) in February to discuss the role of science in the post-2015 agenda, and meeting ...
By SciDev.Net
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