UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS / SPRING SUMMER 2015
E NV I RONM E NT A ND U R BA N ISS U ES
Guidelines for National Waste Management Strategies: Moving from Challenges to Opportunities United Nations Environment Programme
In June 2012 the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development adopted, as part of the main outcome document, “The Future we Want”, a call for countries to develop and enforce comprehensive national and local waste management policies, strategies, laws, and regulations. This call was a response to the challenges presented by unsustainable production and consumption, including the clear and unavoidable evidence of that unsustainability in the generation of waste. Increasingly, that challenge will come to be faced most acutely in developing countries. The objective of this guidance document is to help countries respond to that call: to develop and implement national waste management strategies, or, if they already have such strategies, to help them review, revise and update them.
Publication Date: April 2015 ISBN: 9789280733334
Pages: 108 Price: $24.00
The Emissions Gap Report 2013: A UNEP Synthesis Report United Nations Environment Programme
This report confirms and strengthens the conclusions of previous analyses that current pledges and commitments fall short of set goals. It further says that, as emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise rather than decline, it becomes less likely that emissions will be low enough by 2020 to be on a least-cost pathway towards meeting the 2° C target. As a result, after 2020, the world will have to rely on more difficult, costlier and riskier means of meeting the target. The further from the least-cost level in 2020, the higher these costs and the greater the risks will be. If the gap is not closed or significantly narrowed by 2020, the door to many options to limit temperature increase to 1.5° C at the end of this century will be closed, further increasing the need to rely on accelerated energy-efficiency increases and biomass with carbon capture and storage for reaching the target. ISBN 978-92-8-073353-2
Publication Date: April 2015 ISBN: 9789280733532
Pages: 60 Price: $20.00
Sustainable Public Procurement: A Global Review United Nations Environment Programme
Sustainable Public Procurement : A Global Review
With governments responsible for significant portions of national spending, the promise of including sustainability considerations into that spending can enable policy makers to lead by example with sustainable public procurement (SPP). The report examines the state of sustainable public procurement policies and practices being undertaken by national governments worldwide in the last five years. The research included a comprehensive literature and desktop review, 19 interviews, six country case studies and a survey of 273 SPP experts worldwide. The objective was to create a baseline analysis that examines the evolving field of SPP and the drivers, barriers, needs and opportunities in SPP.
Publication Date: April 2015 ISBN: 9789280733327
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Pages: 78 Price: $25.00
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