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| Title: | Advertising and Communication Forum on Sustainability (1999-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme - Division of Technology, Industry and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | The UNEP Advertising and Communication Forum's main objective is to foster more and better communication on sustainability issues thanks to a close co-operation with the advertising sector (i.e. advertisers, advertising agencies and the media). The [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/sustain/advertising/advertising.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA) (2000-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The advisory committee has been established by Habitat to act as a think tank for innovative ideas and as an early warning system on the future of cities. The committee members will work with national governments and other partners in civil society in [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/committee/cover.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Advisory Support, Information Services and Training (ASIST) Programme (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Labour Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | ASIST - Advisory Support, Information Services and Training Programme promotes strategies for poverty reduction that optimise employment opportunities and local resource utilisation in the provision of sustainable infrastructure and services. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/recon/eiip/asist/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Asia Alternative Energy Program (ASTAE) (1992-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Bank | ||||||||
| Description: | The Asia Alternative Energy Program (ASTAE) was established in 1992 to mainstream alternative energy (renewable energy and energy efficiency) in the World Bank's power sector lending operations in Asia. Since its inception, ASTAE has and continues to [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.worldbank.org/astae/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (APRSCP) (1997-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The mission of the Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production, (formally known as the Asia Pacific Roundtable for Cleaner Production) is to foster dialogue between industry, government, academia, and non-government organizations [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.aprscp.org/default.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Asia and the Pacific Help Desk on Sustainable Consumption and Production (2006/5-2011) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific | ||||||||
| Description: | ESCAP is pursing sustainable consumption as a necessary policy tools for advancing green growth by emphasizing demand side management for improved eco-efficiency of consumption. As the growth pattern is defined by the sum of production and consumption, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.greengrowth.org; www.greengrowth.net | ||||||||
| Title: | Asian Review on Sustainable Consumption - Follow-up (2004/2-2010/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Centre for Environment & Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The "Asian Review on Sustainable Consumption" was initiated as a part of the SC.Asia project funded by the EU Asia Pro-Eco program and partnered by UNEP, CED and CI. Center for Environment & Development (CED) was the lead organization for the Asian Review [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://centreforenvironmentdevelopment.blogspot.com/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Basel Convention is committed to protecting human health and the environment against adverse effects resulting from the generation, movement and management of waste. Current activities cover a broad range of issues including the health and environment [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.basel.int/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Best Practices Database (1996-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Together Foundation -UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | This searchable database contains proven solutions to common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanising and globalising world. Over 2700 practices from 140 countries demonstrate practical ways in which public, private and civil society [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.bestpractices.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Build national capacities to assess, design and implement policies that maximize the development gains from trade-related policies in the agricultural sector while minimizing the impact on agricultural biodiversity (2005/5-2009/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | The initiative is aimed at building national institutional and governmental capacities to identify and quantify the environmental, social and economic effects of trade-related production and consumption patterns and other policies impacting the agricultural [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.ch/etb | ||||||||
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| Title: | Capacity 2015 (2003-2015) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Development Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | At the 2005 World Summit all developing countries agreed to adopt and implement, by 2006, national development strategies to achieve the internationally agreed development goals and objectives, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Capacity [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.capacity.undp.org/index.cfm?module=ActiveWeb&page=WebPage&s=hhhh | ||||||||
| Title: | Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (2000-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Conference on Trade and Development -UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | By enhancing synergies between UNEP and UNCTAD, the CBTF aims to strengthen the capacities of countries, particularly developing countries and countries with economies in transition, to effectively address trade-environment-development issues. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf/cbtf2/firstpage.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Capacity Building support to nine countries on Sustainable Trade and Poverty Reduction (2004/1-2006/12) | ||||||||
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| Description: | The objective of the initiative was to assist countries to use integrated assessment and planning as a tool for balancing environmental, economic and social objectives and relating them to poverty reduction and trade enhancement. Capacity building [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.ch/etb | ||||||||
| Title: | Capacity building for Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agriculture in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) (2005/7-2007/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | Organic agriculture (OA) is a unique production system which offers a range of environmental, social and economic benefits for developing countries. To reap the multifaceted benefits of OA, however, governments must create an enabling environment that [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf | ||||||||
| Title: | Carbon Market Programme (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Earth Council Institute -UN Conference on Trade and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The programme focuses on exploring the economic, trade and investment impacts of climate change in developing and transitional countries, and works to promote their effective participation in the emerging carbon market. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://r0.unctad.org/ghg/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Clean Air Initiative (CAI) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Bank | ||||||||
| Description: | The Clean Air Initiative (CAI) advances innovative ways to improve air quality in cities by sharing knowledge and experiences through partnerships in selected regions of the world. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.cleanairnet.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Clean Energy Initiative (2006-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | U.S. Agency for International Development -U.S. Department of Energy -U.S. Environmental Protection | ||||||||
| Description: | The U.S. Clean Energy Initiative is registered as a Partnership for Sustainable Development: please see http://webapps01.un.org/dsd/partnerships/public/partnerships/1025.html for more information. The purpose of the Clean Energy Initiative is to provide [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sdp.gov/sdp/initiative/cei/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Cleaner Production (CP) Programme (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme -UN Industrial Development Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | The cleaner production (CP) programme aims at building national CP capacities, fostering dialogue between industry and government and enhancing investments for transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies. Through this programme, UNIDO [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unido.org/cp | ||||||||
| Title: | Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP) (1999-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | CLASP Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | CLASP serves as the world's primary international voice and resource for energy efficiency standards and labeling (S&L) worldwide. CLASP facilitates the design, implementation, and enforcement of energy efficiency standards and labels for appliances, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.clasponline.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Collaborative Working Group on Solid Waste Management in Low- and Middle-income Countries (1995-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | SKAT Foundation | ||||||||
| Description: | The CWG network is a forum to encourage interaction between partners on key solid waste management issues and to provide the opportunity for improving the standards and sustainability of solid waste management. It covers the wide range of aspects that [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.skat-foundation.org/activities/ws.htm#cwg | ||||||||
| Title: | Committee on Housing and Land Management (1947-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The Committee is an intergovernmental body of all ECE member States; it provides a forum for the compilation, dissemination and exchange of information and experience on housing, urban development, land administration, national and local objectives and [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/hs/welcome.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Consume This - Buying That Matters (2006/6-2008/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention | ||||||||
| Description: | The information and resources provided in the booklet and website help to raise awareness among youth about the effects that their choices have on the environment. By illustrating simple ways to reduce personal environmental impacts the booklet empowers [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.c2p2online.com/youth | ||||||||
| Title: | Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The Aarhus Convention links environmental rights and human rights. It establishes that sustainable development can be achieved only through the involvement of all stakeholders, through, among other measures, the provision of certain types of production, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/pp/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (1991/2-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The Espoo (EIA) Convention stipulates the obligations of Parties to assess the environmental impact of certain activities at an early stage of planning. It also lays down the general obligation of States to notify and consult each other on all major projects [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/eia/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (1992/1-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution establishes a broad framework for cooperative action on air pollution abatement and sets up a process for negotiating concrete measures to control specific pollutants through legally binding protocols. [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) (1972-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Maritime Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | The Inter-Governmental Conference on the Convention on the Dumping of Wastes at Sea, which met in London in November 1972 at the invitation of the United Kingdom, adopted this instrument, generally known as the London Convention. / / When the Convention [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.imo.org/Conventions/mainframe.asp?topic_id=258&doc_id=681 | ||||||||
| Title: | Cooperation with Africa Task Force (2006-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety | ||||||||
| Description: | The African Ministerial Conference on Environment approved the African 10 Year Framework Programme on Sustainable Consumption and Production in March 2005 through the Dakar Declaration. It highlighted the importance of linking SCP with the challenges [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://marrakech.taskforces.ewindows.eu.org/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Database on Economic Instruments and Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management (2000-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Environment Agency -Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The OECD and the European Environment Agency have, in co-operation with the European Commission, developed a database on the use of market-based instruments for environmental policy and natural resource management (environmentally related taxes, fees [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oecd.org/env/policies/database | ||||||||
| Title: | Design for Sustainability (D4S) Activities (2002-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | UNEP is carrying out two related Design for Sustainability (D4S) efforts to increase awareness, build capacities and demonstrate practical applications within businesses in developing economies. The first one is a global guide for designers and industry [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/design/design-subpage.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Designing Country Profiles on Sustainable Energy Development (2002/8-2008/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The major objective of this initiative is to design and implement a comprehensive and forward-looking approach that will allow the overall assessment of a country's energy system following a sustainable development approach. With this approach, overall [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/Pess/3-e_countrycasestudies.shtml | ||||||||
| Title: | Developing the European SCP Action Plan (2007-2013) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Commission | ||||||||
| Description: | Draw up an action plan to promote sustainable production and consumption; build on current initiatives and instruments such as resource and waste policies, integrated product policy and standards, environmental management schemes and innovation and technology [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://ec.europa.eu/environment/wssd/scp_en.htm | ||||||||
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| Title: | ECOPROFIT (ÖKOPROFIT) (1992/1-2017/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | STENUM -STENUM GmbH | ||||||||
| Description: | ECOPROFIT (ÖKOPROFIT) is a city based initiative initiated by the city of Graz commissioning STENUM to do a regional cleaner production programme. Each year appr. 15 companies of the city are involved in a series of ten workshops and consulting to identify [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oekoprofit.at | ||||||||
| Title: | EIB's Corporate Operational Plan 2004-2006 (2004-2006) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations (DESA) | ||||||||
| Description: | As the European Union's financing institution, the European Investment Bank (EIB) provides long-term financing for investment projects furthering economic objectives of the EU in the area of regional development; the promotion of a European knowledge-based [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.eib.org | ||||||||
| Title: | Eco-efficiency (2002-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Business Council for Sustainable Development | ||||||||
| Description: | Eco-efficiency has long been a cornerstone of the WBCSD?s work program. Over the past several years, more and more companies have embraced the concept and embedded it in their management systems. The WBCSD has moved from promoting the concept as a whole [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=NzA&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu | ||||||||
| Title: | Educating for a Sustainable Future (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | This transdisciplinary project was launched in 1994 as the principal mechanism within UNESCO to follow-up the recommendations concerning education made by the major UN conferences of the 1990s and the conventions on biological diversity, climate change [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unesco.org/education/esd/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Energy Charter | ||||||||
| Description: | The Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (PEEREA) was negotiated, opened for signature (1994) and entered into force at the same time (1998) as the Energy Charter Treaty. Building on the provisions of the Treaty, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.encharter.org/index.php?id=4 | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Charter Treaty (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Treaty Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | The Energy Charter is a multilateral treaty to strengthen the rule of law on energy issues by creating a level playing field among countries. It provides the broadest multilateral framework of rules in existence under international law governing energy [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.encharter.org | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | US Department of Energy | ||||||||
| Description: | A gateway to hundreds of Web sites and thousands of online documents on energy efficiency and renewable energy. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.eere.energy.gov/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project (2006-2009) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Business Council for Sustainable Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The aim with the Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project is to achieve a world in which buildings consume zero net energy. The project will identify how to demolish barriers, transform attitudes and change the business climate. Buildings today represent [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=MjAzMDA | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Industry Partnership Program for Eurasia (1992-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | US Energy Association | ||||||||
| Description: | The Energy Industry Partnership Program for Eurasia (EIPP) is a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United States Energy Association (USEA). Through this program energy companies, regulatory [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.usea.org/workingfiles/NIShome.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Partnership Program for Asia, Africa, Latin America (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | US Energy Association | ||||||||
| Description: | For Asia, Africa and Latin America/Caribbean, USEA has established the Energy Partnership Program (EPP) with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). EPP sets up practioner-to-practioner, multi-year partnerships between U.S. [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.usea.org/workingfiles/epphome.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Bank | ||||||||
| Description: | The Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) is a global technical assistance program which helps build consensus and provides policy advice on sustainable energy development to governments of developing countries and economies in transition. [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/esmap/site.nsf | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE) (1987/1-2008/9) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Energy Agency Energy Technology Data Exchange | ||||||||
| Description: | ETDE is an Implementing Agreement under the International Energy Agency (IEA). Through its member countries and international partners, ETDE provides an extensive bibliographic database (plus full text links) announcing published energy research and technology [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.etde.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Enhancing National Capacities in Madagascar, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Vietnam to assess Wildlife Trade Policies in Support of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (2006/1-2007/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch -UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | Objective: Production and consumption patterns are a major threat to biodiversity. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was created to help devise wildlife trade polices that ensure safety of endangered [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.ch/etb | ||||||||
| Title: | Environment for Europe Programme (1995-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The Programme is the first attempt to set long-term environmental priorities at the pan-European level and to make Agenda 21 more operational in the European context, particularly its provision relating to the integration of environmental policy with [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/wgso/welcome.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Environmentally Sustainable Transport (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | Although there is an emerging consensus that current patterns of transport activity are not environmentally sustainable, there is no clear vision of what might constitute "sustainable transport". This project has been developing such a vision to help [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oecd.org/document/58/0,2340,en_2649_34359_2346490_1_1_1_1,00.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement Working Group (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office | ||||||||
| Description: | the Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement Working Group is an inter-agency mechanism for coordination and information sharing among UN agencies, multilateral development banks and other intergovernmental organizations for implementing sustainable [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sustainableprocurement.net/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Food Standards Programme (1963-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN | ||||||||
| Description: | The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.codexalimentarius.net/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Global Compact (2000/7-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations | ||||||||
| Description: | An voluntary corporate citizenship initiative launched by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the Global Compact brings companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unglobalcompact.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) (1994-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc. | ||||||||
| Description: | The Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) is a non-profit association of third-party, environmental performance labelling organizations founded in 1994 to improve, promote, and develop the "ecolabelling" of products and services. The mission of the GEN [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.gen.gr.jp/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Global Environment Facility (GEF) (pre 1992-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Global Environment Facility Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | The Global Environment Facility (GEF) helps developing countries and economies in transition fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. GEF grants support projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://gefweb.org/index.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Global Information Network on Chemicals (GINC) (1994/4-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Japan National Institute of Health Sciences | ||||||||
| Description: | The purpose of the GINC project is to foster generation and circulation of chemical-related information among all countries and international organizations for the promotion of chemical safety. It aims at providing networking arrangements for linking [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.nihs.go.jp/GINC/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Global Initiative on Transport Emissions (GITE) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations | ||||||||
| Description: | The Global Initiative on Transport Emissions (GITE) is a project undertaken jointly by the World Bank and the United Nations in cooperation with the private sector to facilitate the cooperation among automotive and petroleum industries and developing [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.un.org/esa/gite/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Global Renewable Energy Education and Training (GREET) Programme (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | The Global Renewable Energy Education and Training (GREET) aims at developing the scientific capacity and local competencies through development of institutional and human capacity building, dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge and providing [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://portal.unesco.org/sc_nat/ev.php?URL_ID=1490&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201 | ||||||||
| Title: | Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) (2002-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Development Programme -World Bank | ||||||||
| Description: | GVEP is a voluntary Partnership that brings together developing and industrialized country governments, public and private organizations, multilateral institutions, consumers and others in an effort to ensure access to modern energy services by the poor. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.gvep.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) (2002-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The “Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals” (GHS) provides the basis for the worldwide harmonization of the different existing systems applied in various sectors (transport, agriculture, workplace safety, consumer protection [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_welcome_e.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction from Industry in Asia and the Pacific (GERIAP) (2002-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme - Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific | ||||||||
| Description: | Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction from Industry in Asia and the Pacific aims at developing and demonstrating a mechanism for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases at company level. The project works with NCPCs and has three components. 1) Capacity [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.roap.unep.org/html/techno_industry.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Guidelines and Indicators for the Development of National Strategies on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) (2006/11-2008/11) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Second International Expert Meeting on the Marrakech Process (September 2005, Costa Rica) requested the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) to develop non-prescriptive [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unep.fr/pc/sustain/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of Transport (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | HIA aims at studying upstream health determinants in an integrated way rather than concentrating on single risk factors. HIA's overall objective is to provide decision-makers with sound information on implications on health of any given policy. The health [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.euro.who.int/transport/HIA/20021009_3 | ||||||||
| Title: | Health-Care Waste Working Group (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | This working group is a voluntary coalition to promote safe management of HCW, and finding sustainable solutions. This resource site aims at supporting mainly developing countries in the implementation of safe health-care waste management systems. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.healthcarewaste.org | ||||||||
| Title: | Healthy Cities Programme (Europe) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The WHO Healthy Cities approach gives comprehensive policy and planning solutions to urban health problems. Healthy Cities engages local governments in health development, through a process of political commitment, institutional changes and capacity building [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.who.dk/healthy-cities | ||||||||
| Title: | Household Behaviour and Environmental Policy (2005-2008) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | A new activity was initiated by the Environment Directorate in 2005 to improve the understanding of household consumption patterns and household responses to environmental policies in order to provide guidance to policy-makers. The project on Household [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oecd.org/document/52/0,2340,en_2649_34289_35145204_1_1_1_1,00.html | ||||||||
| I | |||||||||
| Title: | ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Council for Local Environment Initiatives | ||||||||
| Description: | The ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments implementing sustainable development. Its mission is to build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to achieve tangible improvements in [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iclei.org/about.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | IFCS - Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (1995/4-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety | ||||||||
| Description: | The Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) is a mechanism to develop and promote strategies and partnerships among national governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. The purposes of the Forum are: provide policy guidance; [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.ifcs.ch | ||||||||
| Title: | INFOCAP (Information Exchange Network on Capacity Building for the Sound Management of Chemicals) (2003/7-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety | ||||||||
| Description: | INFOCAP is an internet-based network designed to facilitate the exchange and public accessibility of information related to chemicals management capacity building. The general objective of INFOCAP is to enhance effective coordination and cooperation [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.infocap.info | ||||||||
| Title: | Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development (ISED) (2002/7-2008/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The goal of this project was to derive a set of energy-related indicators that could present energy, economic, environmental and social data to policy makers in a coherent and consistent form, showing their inter-linkages, and capable of being used for [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/Pess/ISED.shtml | ||||||||
| Title: | Integrated Product Policy (IPP) (2001-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Commission | ||||||||
| Description: | Integrated Product Policy (IPP) seeks to minimise the environmental degradation caused by all products, whether from their manufacturing, use or disposal, by looking at all phases of a products's life-cycle and taking action where it is most effective. The [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ipp/home.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) (1995-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | The Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) is the pre-eminent mechanism for initiating, facilitating and coordinating international action to achieve the WSSD 2020 goal for sound management of chemicals. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.who.int/iomc/en/ | ||||||||
| Title: | International Coalition for Sustainable Production and Consumption (ICSPAC) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | |||||||||
| Description: | ICSPAC aims to provide an effective information exchange and networking vehicle for NGOs and citizen organizations promoting sustainable production and consumption (SPAC) policies and practices. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.icspac.net | ||||||||
| Title: | International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of Ships (1973-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Maritime Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of Ships, 1973 was adopted in 1973. This Convention was subsequently modified by the Protocol 1978 relating thereto, which was adopted in 1978. The Protocol introduced stricter regulations for [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?doc_id=678&topic_id=258 | ||||||||
| Title: | International Declaration on Cleaner Production (1998/9-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United National Environment Programme - Division of Technology, Industry and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | The International Declaration is a voluntary but public commitment to the strategy and practice of Cleaner Production. The Declaration outlines a set of principles, which when implemented will lead to increased awareness, understanding and ultimately, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/cp/declaration/home.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | International Panel on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (2006/9-2007/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The objectives of the International Panel on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources are to increase resource-efficient economic growth in all regions of the world and to assist in decreasing the environmental impacts associated with economic growth [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unep.fr/pc/sustain/ | ||||||||
| Title: | International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | Provides expert advice and technical assistance on chemical safety issues. The two main roles are to establish the scientific basis, using health and environment risk assessment, for safe use of chemicals, and to strengthen national capabilities for chemical [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.who.int/pcs/ | ||||||||
| Title: | International Renewable Energy Alliance (IREA) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | |||||||||
| Description: | The International Renewable Energy Alliance (IREA) was formed by its founding organizations on 4th June 2004 to enhance policy and information on renewable energy as well as to provide a combined voice for the renewable energy community research, business [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.ren-alliance.org | ||||||||
| Title: | International Solar Energy Society (ISES) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Solar Energy Society | ||||||||
| Description: | The International Solar Energy Society (ISES) is a global network of industry, individuals and institutions in support of the advancement, research and utilization of renewable energy technologies world-wide. Representing some 30,000 members globally, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.ises.org | ||||||||
| Title: | International Task Force for Sustainable Products (2005/11-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs -International Task Force for Sustainable Products, Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | The main objectives of the International Task Force for Sustainable Products include raising awareness of product policy as a means of achieving international development, identifying opportunities for cooperation to encourage more innovation in product [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.itfsp.org | ||||||||
| Title: | International Task Force on Harmonisation and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (2003/2-2006/7) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Conference on Trade and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The International Task Force on Harmonisation and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture, convened by FAO, IFOAM and UNCTAD, will serve as an open-ended platform for dialogue between public and private institutions (intergovernmental, governmental and civil [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unctad.org/trade_env/itf-organic | ||||||||
| Title: | International Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles (2005-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Ministry of Environment, Sweden | ||||||||
| Description: | An International Task Force on “Sustainable Lifestyles” has been established under the leadership of Sweden to strengthen the ongoing Marrakech process. The focus of the Task Force is on sustainable lifestyles, e.g. consumption related to lifestyles [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.uneptie.org/PC/sustain/resources/MTF/Sweden%20TF%20Sust.Lifestyles.pdf | ||||||||
| Title: | International Task Force on Sustainable Tourism (2006/2-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | The French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The International Task Force on Sustainable Tourism encourages participants in the Marrakech Process to undertake actions that promote sustainable tourism. The Task Force focuses on both developed and developing countries and embraces all three dimensions [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/resources/MTF/TOR_TF_sustainable_tourism_ENG_23Febv2.pdf | ||||||||
| J | |||||||||
| Title: | Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (1997-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The objectives of this Convention are: (i) to achieve and maintain a high level of safety worldwide in spent fuel and radioactive waste management, through the enhancement of national measures and international co-operation, including where appropriate, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www-ns.iaea.org/conventions/waste-jointconvention.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Joint UNEP-University of McGill Masters Programme on Integrated and Environmental Impact Assessment (2006/1-2007/6) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective of this joint programme is to develop an international pool of trained experts in disciplines related to trade, environment, integrate assessment, and sustainable development. Launch of Masters programme in collaboration with McGill University, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.mcgill.ca/nrs/graduate/environment/ | ||||||||
| K | |||||||||
| Title: | Kitakyushu Initiative for a Clean Environment (2000-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific | ||||||||
| Description: | The primary objectives of the Kitakyushu Initiative is to conduct a comprehensive assessment of state of the environment and sustainable development policies in the Region; reviewing the implementation of Agenda 21, international environmental conventions [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unescap.org/esd/environment/kitakyushu/index.asp | ||||||||
| L | |||||||||
| Title: | Land Management Programme (LMP) (1996-1999) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Land Management Programme (LMP) was launched after the Habitat II Conference (June, 1996) as follow-up to the Habitat II Land Initiative and to capitalise on the various partnership activities which had led to the issuance of the "Global Platform [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.bestpractices.org/cgi-bin/bp98.cgi?cmd=page&page=habitat_lmp&key= | ||||||||
| Title: | Life Cycle Initiative (2002/4-2010) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme - Division for Technology, Industry and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | The first phase of the Life Cycle Initiative (LCI) started in 2002 and was completed in 2006. The aim was to promote life cycle thinking worldwide. Three programs were established: Application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and life cycle thinking development, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/lcinitiative/home.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Local Capacities for Global Agendas (2002-2007) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme -UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | Developing local capacities and mechanisms for adapting and implementing global principles and norms of sustainable urbanisation (including related MEAS e.g. on climate change; air quality; water management, biodiversity); Strengthening the capacities [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | |||||||||
| Title: | Local Leadership and Management Training Programme (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | To contribute, in collaboration with the Women and Habitat Programme and the Localizing Agenda 21 of the TCBS, to improving the living and working environment for all, on a sustainable basis, by promoting effective human resource development and institutional [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/habrdd/caplead.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | London Group on Environmental Accounting (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Statistics Canada | ||||||||
| Description: | To provide an annual forum for leading countries and international organisations to exchange practical and conceptual expertise with respect to the development of environmental accounts linked to the System of National Accounts. To make available to the [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www4.statcan.ca/citygrp/london/london.htm | ||||||||
| M | |||||||||
| Title: | Mediterranean Renewable Energy Programme (MEDREP) (2002/9-2012/9) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Ministry for the Environment and Territory of Italy | ||||||||
| Description: | The Mediterranean Renewable Energy Programme (MEDREP)has been developed to reduce the cost of renewable energy by expanding markets and creating a strong market environment for renewable energy. The two principal objectives of MEDREP are to: ¿ provide [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.medrep.it | ||||||||
| Title: | Municipal Solid Waste Management Training Course for Pacific Island Forum (PIF) Countries (2001-2009) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective of this regional training course is to provide technical training to waste management advisers, managers and workers from the PIF countries in order to improve their planning and implementation skills of MSWM strategies, particularly in [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sprep.org/solid_waste/training/index.htm | ||||||||
| N | |||||||||
| Title: | National Cleaner Production Centres (1994-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Industrial Development Organization -United Nations Environment Programme - Division of Industry Technology and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | The UNIDO/UNEP Programme for National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs) is a unique programme of capacity development to help achieve adoption and further development of the Cleaner Production concept at the national level. The NCPC Programme is administered [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/cp/ncpc/activites.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Nordic Brochures on Green Public Procurement (2003/7-2008) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Norwegian Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production | ||||||||
| Description: | Development and distribution of two brochures (2003-2004) aimed at Greening public procurement in the Nordic countries: Brochure 1 - for politicians, managers and procurement officers. Brochure 2 - for procurement officers. The brochures will be translated [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.grip.no/Felles/english.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Nordic Roundtables on Business Relations and Sustainable Consumption and Production in a North/South perspective (2005/3-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Nordic Ad-Hoc group on Sustainable Consumption and Production -Norwegian foundation for Sustainable Consumption and Production | ||||||||
| Description: | The Nordic Roundtable contributes to formulation of UN and EU policies on SCP and Consumption. The Roundtable was financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers and contained experts from business, governments, academia and NGOs, both from the North and [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.grip.no/nordicroundtable2005/ | ||||||||
| Title: | North American Sustainable Consumption and Production Database (2003-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | |||||||||
| Description: | The North American Sustainable Consumption and Production Database is an initiative of the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance. It is a strategic partnership of people and organizations who are working to promote more sustainable consumption [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://nasca.icspac.net/db/ | ||||||||
| O | |||||||||
| Title: | OECD Horizontal Work on Sustainable Production (2007/1-2008/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | Analysis to identify measures of sustainable manufacturing production and links to competitiveness. Kick-off: OECD Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing Production and Competitiveness to be held in Denmark, Copenhagen on 21-22 June 2007. | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.oecd.org/sustainabledevelopment | ||||||||
| Title: | OECD Work Programme on Sustainable Consumption (1997-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The OECD Work Programme on Sustainable Consumption provides new data and analysis to help countries reduce the environmental impacts from household consumption patterns. It combines empirical studies of consumption trends in OECD countries with conceptual [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34331_1_1_1_1_1,00.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Organisations for the Promotion of Energy Technologies (OPET) Network (1980-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Commission | ||||||||
| Description: | OPET Network has series of activities, aimed at promoting public awareness of current energy research results. The activities are intended to further the deployment of innovative technologies and increase the pace of market uptake in respect of research [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.cordis.lu/opet/home.html | ||||||||
| P | |||||||||
| Title: | Pacific Regional Solid Waste Management Strategy (2004-2005) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | This programme followed the endorsement, at the Japan/Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PALM 2003), of the need for developing a Pacific Regional Solid Waste Management Strategy building on the draft Master Plan prepared by the Japanese Government. [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sprep.org/solid_waste/index.asp | ||||||||
| Title: | Partnership of Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (2002-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Division for Sustainable Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The Partnership seeks to work with developing countries to phase out the use of lead and reduce sulphur in fuels as well as to work toward improving fuel quality in general. Activities are aimed at building capacities, improving availability and accessibility [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.un.org/esa/gite/cleanfuels/index.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Photovoltaic Market Transformation Initiative (1998/6-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Finance Corporation | ||||||||
| Description: | The Photovoltaic Market Transformation Initiative (¿PVMTI¿) is an initiative of the International Finance Corporation and the Global Environment Facility, which aims to promote the sustainable commercialisation of PV technology in the developing world [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.pvmti.com/homepage.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Promoting Industrial Energy Efficiency through a Cleaner Production / Environmental Management System Framework (-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme - Division of Technology Industry and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | The overall objective of this project is to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by identifying and implementing energy efficiency (EE) improvements as an integral part of Cleaner Production (CP) assessments in industrial enterprises. The project operates [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/energy/projects/cp-ee/cpee_project.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (2003/5-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | |||||||||
| Description: | The Kiev (SEA) Protocol, once in force, will require its Parties to evaluate the environmental consequences of their official draft plans and programmes. SEA is undertaken much earlier in the decision-making process than EIA, and it is therefore seen [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/sea/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Development Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | UNDP's Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) facility supports the development of innovative public-private partnerships at the local level. Focusing on assisting small and medium-sized cities, PPPUE works with all potential stakeholders, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.undp.org/ppp/about/index.htm | ||||||||
| R | |||||||||
| Title: | Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP) (2006-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Stockholm Environment Institute | ||||||||
| Description: | The Resource and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP) is a model for policy analysis. It features a number of approaches that enables policy makers to answer the “What if” questions about the effects of policy on the environment helping to formulate strategies [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sei.se/reap/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Harzardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC) (1998-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN -UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Convention establishes a first line of defense by giving importing countries the tools and information they need to identify potential hazards and exclude chemicals they cannot manage safely. If a country agrees to import chemicals, the Convention [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.pic.int | ||||||||
| S | |||||||||
| Title: | Shopping for a Better World (2005/9-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | As a key link between producers and consumers, the retail sector is a major driver of production and consumption patterns. Retailers have a great influence on producers, suppliers and consumers and therefore can help contribute to the promotion of sustainability [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.fr/pc/retail | ||||||||
| Title: | Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (1977-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The IEA’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme involves collaboration in the research, development and demonstration of solar thermal technologies for heating and cooling and daylighting technologies to reduce excessive reliance on imported oil, increase [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iea-shc.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) (2001-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs). POPs are chemicals that remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely distributed geographically, accumulate [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.pops.int | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Alternatives Network (SANet) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Global Environment Facility -UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Sustainable Alternatives Network (SANet) helps business experts overcome technology transfer challenges. SANet offers online resources and financial incentives, thereby enabling local experts to strengthen their advisory capacity and effectively market [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sustainablealternatives.net/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Building and Construction Initiative (SBCI) (2006-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Sustainable Building and Construction Initiative is a global initiative that aims to incorporate sustainability in the building and construction sector. It focuses on the establishment of global baselines for sustainable development in the sector, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.uneptie.org/pc/pc/SBCI/SBCI_2006_InformationNote.pdf | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Alliance to Save Energy | ||||||||
| Description: | Energy systems make up a critical part of urban infrastructure, and the Alliance is working to develop environmentally and economically sustainable municipal energy systems. With support from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.ase.org/programs/international/sustainablecity.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) (1995-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | It is a facility for building capacities in urban environmental planning and management. The programme is founded on broad-based cross-sectoral and stakeholder participatory approaches. It contributes to promoting urban environmental governance processes, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/sustainablecities/default.asp | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Pan-European region (2006-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The objectives of the programme are to provide an overall picture of the current patterns of consumption and production in EECCA (Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia) and SEE (South East Europe) countries, identify opportunities for more sustainable [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unece.org/env/efe/wgso/Belgrade/documents/WGSO/SCP.EfE.Oct.2006.3rd.wgso.pdf | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Procurement (2002-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme - Division of Technology, Industry and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | 1. UNEP/IAPSO/WB Sustainable Procurement Modular Training Package: introduction and practical steps on how to implement sustainable procurement and why. The Package provides the tools and the necessary information to carry out a one to two/three-days [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/policies/green-proc.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Waste Management for African Countries (pre 1992-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The project's objective is to strengthen the regional capacity for solid waste management in Africa, through developing waste management programmes that include concepts such as waste minimisation, recycling and reuse, and informal sector micro-enterprises [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/urbansanitation | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable World - A Global Initiative (2004-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Independent Science Panel -Institute of Science in Society | ||||||||
| Description: | One of the most urgent tasks for humanity is making food production sustainable. It is also the key to delivering health, ameliorating the worst effects of climate change and saving the planet from destructive exploitation. The Independent Science [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableWorldInitiativeF.php | ||||||||
| T | |||||||||
| Title: | Task Force on Education for Sustainable Consumption (2006-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Ministry of Environment | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective of the international Task Force on Education for Sustainable Consumption is to introduce sustainable consumption and production issues into formal curricula to support the Marrakech process through initiatives, activities and pilot projects [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/resources/MTF/MTF_on_Education_for_SC.pdf | ||||||||
| Title: | Task Force on Sustainable Buildings and Construction (2005/10-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Ministry of the Environment of Finland | ||||||||
| Description: | The Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Buildings and Construction (SBC MTF) aims to identify the most efficient policies to ensure sustainability of the built environment. The present focus of the Task Force is sustainable energy consumption (energy [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.uneptie.org/PC/sustain/resources/MTF/SBC_TF_mini_ToR_14Feb06.pdf | ||||||||
| Title: | Task Force on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) (2006/3-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Commission | ||||||||
| Description: | The Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) was created to promote and support the implementation of sustainable public procurement by developing tools and supporting capacity building in both developed and developing countries. The [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.uneptie.org/PC/sustain/resources/MTF/Fact_sheet_MTF_procurement.pdf | ||||||||
| Title: | The African 10 Year Framework Programme (10YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production (2005-2015) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The high-level launch of The African 10-Year Framework Programme (10-YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) (the 4th African Roundtable on SCP) was held in May 2006. Its objectives of the expert meetings was to inform the high-level representatives [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/consumption/Marrakech/conprod10Yafr.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | Transport, Environment and Health Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) (2002/7-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | THE PEP provides a cross-sectoral framework for promoting policy integration and sustainable transport development, in particular in urban areas. Its capacity building, awareness raising and information sharing activities aim at bringing particular benefits [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.thepep.org | ||||||||
| U | |||||||||
| Title: | UN Car Free Days (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Division for Sustainable Development | ||||||||
| Description: | Car Free Days will be used as a public awareness and public education tool to promote alternative modes of transport and inspire communities to take a more active role in local transport policy decision making. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uncfd.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (1992-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | The Convention sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle climate change. It establishes an objective and principles and spells out commitments for different groups of countries according to their circumstances and needs. It also [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://unfccc.int/ | ||||||||
| Title: | UNEP Finance Initiative (2003-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is a unique public-private partnership between the United Nations and the financial sector. Today, UNEP FI is the largest global voluntary partnership of its kind, with over 160 Signatories [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unepfi.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF) Activities (2004/1-2007/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective of the CBTF is to help maximize the contribution that trade and environment make to sustainable development through building capacities in developing countries to integrate trade, environment and development objectives into their national [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf | ||||||||
| Title: | Urban Indicators Programme (UIP) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The UIP was established to address the urgent global need to improve the base of urban knowledge by helping countries and cities design, collect, manage, analyze and apply policy-oriented indicators data. Its mission is to improve information for urban [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/guo/guo_indicators.asp | ||||||||
| Title: | Urban Transport Planning Management Programme (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective and challenge for UN-HABITAT's Urban Transport Planning Management Programme is to find ways to promote urban productivity and improved living and working conditions for urban populations by appropriately meeting transport needs in an economically [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/urbantransport/default.asp | ||||||||
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| Title: | Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (pre 1992-2017) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | In 1985, scientific concerns about damage to the ozone layer prompted governments to adopt the Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer (Adobe PDF), which established an international legal framework for action. Then, two years later, in [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unep.org/ozone/index.asp | ||||||||
| W | |||||||||
| Title: | Working Group on Waste Prevention and Recycling (WGWPR) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The Working Group addresses and conducts research in waste management including extended producer responsibility (EPR), Environmentally Sound Management (ESM); and holds workshops and issuing recommendations for member states. | ||||||||
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| Title: | Workshops and Seminars to Build Capacity for Promoting Production and Trade of Organic Agriculture (2006) (2006/1-2006/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective is to facilitate vibrant and continuous national and regional multistakeholder dialogue among all relevant parties, including representatives from the ministries of agriculture, environment and trade, farmers, exporters, NGOs, research institutions, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf | ||||||||
| Title: | World-wide Information System for Renewable Energy (WIRE) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | |||||||||
| Description: | The World-wide Information System for Renewable Energy is a service provided by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). WIRE is an Internet based information service for the renewable energy community and people interested in learning more about [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://wire0.ises.org/ | ||||||||
| Y | |||||||||
| Title: | Year of Action Against Waste (2005-2006) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Year of Action Against Waste programme was part of a long term regional program that is aimed at assisting all the Pacific Island member countries of SPREP in addressing their solid waste management issues in an environmentally sound manner. The [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sprep.org.ws/solid_waste/index.asp | ||||||||
| Title: | YouthXchange (2000-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -United Nations Environment Programme - Division of Technology, Industry and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | YouthXchange (YXC) explains how lifestyle choices in more affluent countries and the situation in developing regions of the world are closely interrelated. Unless more responsible consumption patterns are promoted and adopted now, environmental and social [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.youthxchange.net./ | ||||||||
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| Title: | ZERMEG - Zero Emission Retrofitting Method for Existing Galvanising Plants (2002/1-2010/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | STENUM GmbH | ||||||||
| Description: | ZERMEG (zero emission retrofitting of galvanizing plants) aims at zero emission galvanizing. It gives a method to identify all options (organisational and technological) to reduce water consumption and use of chemicals by systematically calculating the [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.zermeg.net | ||||||||
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