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| 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 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: | 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: | 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 | ||||||||
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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 | ||||||||
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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: | 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 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 | ||||||||
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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 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 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: | 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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: | 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 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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) | ||||||||
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| 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/ | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 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 | ||||||||
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| 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: | 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 | ||||||||
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| 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) (-) | ||||||||
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| 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/ | ||||||||
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