This sourcebook module aims to assist policymakers in developing Asian countries, particularly those involved at the urban level, move towards making the urban freight sector more sustainable.
This United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) document presents the case for the adoption and implementation of chemicals control legislation. It is primarily intended to support decision-makers in their efforts to establish legal frameworks for preventive chemicals control, and government officials actively working to develop, adapt and implement chemicals control and the related institutional capacity.
This guidance document builds on International Accounting Standards Board’s position on how climate-related matters should be integrated into financial reporting based on current International Financial Reporting Standards.
The World Health Organization's Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA) aims to ensure universal access to clean and sustainable energy to protect health, and strengthen cooperation between health and energy sectors.
This is the final report from phase II of the INCA project, which aims to develop a pilot for an integrated system of ecosystem accounts for the European Union. It provides an introduction to ecosystem accounting and presents ecosystem extent accounts, initial ecosystem condition accounts and ecosystem services accounts. It also shows practical examples of possible uses of ecosystem services accounts and existing policy applications.
This Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) pack of presentations and exercises is for facilitators to use in training settings in order to help climate and development professionals integrate gender perspectives into climate projects and programmes.
The study investigates the economic case for ecosystem management and restoration interventions in the Thukela river basin in South Africa. It weighs the benefits of ecosystem restoration in terms of the monetary value of improved provision of selected ecosystem services against the costs of interventions.
The report provides an overview of the work undertaken in China as part of the Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (NCAVES) project to compile ecosystem accounts under the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting framework.
This paper identifies several intersectional opportunities and explores five key opportunities and action areas for transport decarbonization and public-private participation for countries, cities and companies - public transport, walking and bicycling, vehicle electrification, rail, and research and development. Actions in these areas can help decarbonize transport while creating jobs, increasing equity, improving road safety and reducing air pollution.
This case study examines how the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil has adopted public mitigation policies, which include adaptation measures to climate change and ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on local and global warming.