This guide is designed to address the urgent need for further extending the scope and ambition of building sector actions in NDCs, the opportunities for aligning with commitments made by non-party actors, and the renewed support for successively increasing ambition and implementing actions of NDCs. It provides a simple process for incorporating or updating ambitious and effective building sector actions in Nationally Determined Contributions.
The Resource Guide for Green Economy Learning Institutions aims to raise the visibility to green economy learning opportunities, enable collaboration and kick-start a global green economy learning network. It identifies knowledge-sharers, thought-leaders, and pioneers of green economy learning.
This training manual is intended to introduce the concept of indicators and illustrate the use of methodologies for selecting and applying indicators. It seeks to contribute to the capacity of countries choosing indicators for inclusive green economy, relevant to their country contexts, particularly in light of the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals.
This guide is for companies and organisations seeking to understand carbon offsets and how to use them in voluntary GHG reduction strategies. It may also be useful for individuals interested in using carbon offsets to compensate for their personal emissions. It explains how to use carbon offsets responsibly to accelerate action on climate change.
This guidance aims to transform the banking industry to enable it to play a leading role in achieving society’s goals. It has a vision of integrating a responsible banking industry that is an integral part of the society of the 21st century because it serves and contributes to an inclusive society that uses its natural resources sustainably.
Integrated Environmental Assessments (IEA) are powerful tools to help inform the development of evidence-based environmental policy and decision making, bring relevant scientific findings to a broad audience, and raise awareness of changing environmental conditions as well as identify emerging environmental issues. These guidelines are advisory and provide approaches for conducting a large gamut of integrated environmental assessments for different objectives. They are intended to be practical in application and sensitive to different levels of available resources and objectives and further complement environmental management monitoring and evaluation programmes.
Policy makers, miners, and civil society can use this guide to learn about technologies and approaches for reducing and eliminating mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM).
The purpose of this manual is to provide a standard methodology to undertake audits that cover the following:
- Household kerbside waste
- Commercial premises
- Landfills
- Assessment of the current collection systems
- Assessment of current infrastructure
- Assessment of the current legislation and policy framework
- Assessment of the current range of financial mechanisms...
The purpose of this report is to provide recommendations, advice and practical guidance, for the establishment of programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of plastic litter, also referred to as plastic debris, in the ocean.
This guide shows how a lifecycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products consumers use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire lifecycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development, business strategy, innovation, and better customer choice. The case studies highlighted offer an ideal starting point in understanding the full environmental implications of products.