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