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Towards a Green Economy: pathways to sustainable and poverty eradication (a synthesis for policy makers)
UNEP, 2011UNEP’s Green Economy Report, entitled Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about the economics of “greening” the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy.
Towards a Green Economy: pathways to sustainable and poverty eradication (a synthesis for policy makers)
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Available online: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=126&menu=3 [...]
Published by: UNEP ; 2011
UNEP’s Green Economy Report, entitled Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about the economics of “greening” the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill.)Tags: Environment and landscape ; Green economy ; Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Protection
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Available online: http://www.unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/osgdp2011d5_en.pdf
Published by: UNCTAD ; 2011
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Green economy ; Space Research
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Des économies vertes aux sociétés vertes - L'engagement de l'UNESCO pour le développement durable
UNESCO, 2011UNESCO’s recently published report “From Green Economies to Green Societies” serves as an important contribution to the preparatory process of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 4-6 June 2012. It provides the Organization’s vision for Rio+20 and gives concrete examples demonstrating the Organization’s work to promote sustainable development. It also provides a roadmap for future action on how to build equitable, inclusive, green societies through education, the sciences, culture and communication and information.”
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Available online: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002133/213311f.pdf
Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'Education, la Science et et la Culture
Published by: UNESCO ; 2011UNESCO’s recently published report “From Green Economies to Green Societies” serves as an important contribution to the preparatory process of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 4-6 June 2012. It provides the Organization’s vision for Rio+20 and gives concrete examples demonstrating the Organization’s work to promote sustainable development. It also provides a roadmap for future action on how to build equitable, inclusive, green societies through education, the sciences, culture and communication and information.”
Language(s): French; Other Languages: English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill., charts)Tags: Environment and landscape ; Sustainable development ; Climate change ; Disaster prevention and preparedness ; Green economy
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From Green Economies to Green Societies: UNESCO's Commitment to Sustainable Development
UNESCO, 2011UNESCO’s recently published report “From Green Economies to Green Societies” serves as an important contribution to the preparatory process of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 4-6 June 2012. It provides the Organization’s vision for Rio+20 and gives concrete examples demonstrating the Organization’s work to promote sustainable development. It also provides a roadmap for future action on how to build equitable, inclusive, green societies through education, the sciences, culture and communication and information.”
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Available online: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002133/213311e.pdf
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Published by: UNESCO ; 2011UNESCO’s recently published report “From Green Economies to Green Societies” serves as an important contribution to the preparatory process of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 4-6 June 2012. It provides the Organization’s vision for Rio+20 and gives concrete examples demonstrating the Organization’s work to promote sustainable development. It also provides a roadmap for future action on how to build equitable, inclusive, green societies through education, the sciences, culture and communication and information.”
Language(s): English; Other Languages: French
Format: Digital (Free) (ill., charts)Tags: Environment and landscape ; Sustainable development ; Climate change ; Disaster prevention and preparedness ; Green economy
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Investment-grade climate change policy : financing the transition to the low-carbon economy
UNEP FI, 2011This report has been commissioned by the three major investor climate change networks (the European-based Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the North Americanbased Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), and the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC)) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). These groups, and their members, are concerned about climate change because of the potential for climate change to have major negative impacts on the economic systems they operate in and, in turn, on the assets in which they i ...
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Available online: http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/Investment-GradeClimateChangePolicy.pd [...]
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change ; Investor Network on Climate Risk ; (IGCC) Investor Group on Climate Change ; UNEP Finance Initiative
Published by: UNEP FI ; 2011This report has been commissioned by the three major investor climate change networks (the European-based Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the North Americanbased Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), and the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC)) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). These groups, and their members, are concerned about climate change because of the potential for climate change to have major negative impacts on the economic systems they operate in and, in turn, on the assets in which they invest. They also recognise that investors have a critical role to play in responding to climate change, through their ability to provide capital to finance the transition to a low-carbon economy, through the decisions they make about the sectors and activities they invest in, through their ability to encourage the companies in which they invest to reduce their emissions, and through the support they can lend to public policy efforts directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and at enabling society to respond effectively to the physical and other impacts of climate change. The report has two objectives: (1) to contribute to policymakers’ understanding of the factors that institutional investors consider when investing in areas such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, and (2) to set out what institutional investors see as ‘investment-grade’ climate change and clean energy policy that would support significant low carbon, clean energy investment.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Financing climate change action ; Climate change ; Greenhouse gas reducing ; Green economy
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Europe's environment — An Assessment of Assessments
EEA, 2011In support of the 2011 'Environment for Europe' Ministerial Conference in Astana, EEA has prepared Europe's environment — An Assessment of Assessments (EE-AoA). This report provides a comprehensive overview of available sources of environmental information across the region which directly relate to the themes in focus at the Conference, water and related ecosystems, and green economy.
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The Emissions Gap Report : are the Copenhagen Accord Pledges Sufficient to Limit Global Warming to 2° C or 1.5° C? A preliminary assessment
UNEP, 2010Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges but also an inordinate opportunity to catalyze a transition to a low-carbon, resource efficient Green Economy.
This report informs governments and the wider community on how far a response to climate change has progressed over the past 12 months, and thus how far the world is on track to meet wider goals,.
The pledges associated with the Copenhagen Accord of 2009 are the point of departure for this report. What might be achieved in terms of limiting a global temperature rise to 2ºC or less in the 21st centur ...
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Investment in Walking and Cycling Road Infrastructure Share the Road
UNEP, 2010This report outlines the core argument of Share the Road, a campaign that works to help re-balance the current state of road investments across all modes. Share the Road aims to increase investments in walking and cycling infrastructure by working with all stakeholders - governments and donors in particular - to develop and implement strong investment policies specifically for non-motorised transport (NMT). The core impetus is that investments in NMT infrastructure spur a triple win in improved environment, safety and accessibility, which as a whole, contribute to sustainable development and p ...
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