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.
This guide explains the main concepts and techniques associated with water valuation, drawing from the progressive efforts of companies that have already started valuing water and using 25 case studies of business-related applications.
The purpose of EPA’s Guide for Industrial Waste Management is to provide facility managers, state and tribal regulators, and the interested public with recommendations and tools to better address the management of land-disposed, non-hazardous industrial wastes. The Guide can help facility managers make environmentally responsible decisions while working in partnership with state and tribal regulators and the public. It can serve as a handy implementation reference tool for regulators to complement existing programs and help address any gaps. The Guide can also help the public become more informed and more knowledgeable in addressing waste management issues in the community.
Created by C40 Cities, the Clean Energy Business Model Manual explores business models and financial instruments for decarbonization and presents their administrative and financial structure across various regulatory contexts and market conditions.
This report aims to provide practical information, suggestions, and guidelines on Healthcare Waste Management (HCWM) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) given the restrictions and limitations imposed by the ongoing pandemic, including lack of human resources, technologies, equipment, and funds.
The scope of the Ocean Accounts Framework is to support the compilation of spatially detailed national-level accounts covering maritime zones subject to sovereignty or national jurisdiction, namely internal waters, the territorial sea and contiguous zone, archipelagic waters, the exclusive economic zone, and/or the continental shelf.
This guide provides a complete set of materials to be used in training workshops on mainstreaming gender in adaptation planning in the agriculture sector.
The Gender-Responsive Macro-Economic Policies and National Green Growth Strategies' guidance explains why gender should be integrated into macro-economic policies and national green growth strategy and provides examples, lessons learned, and recommendations.
These guidelines have been developed to facilitate the use of freely available remote sensing data and derived agro-climatic monitoring indicators and early warning products to improve crop production forecasting in Sub-Saharan Africa.