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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 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 | ||||||||
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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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/ | ||||||||
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| 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/ | ||||||||
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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 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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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 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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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 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 | ||||||||
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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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