This report shows that enough low-carbon technologies exist to help the world avert damaging climate change, but that strong policy is needed to support their rapid deployment.

The book explains three basic principles of Greening growth: quality of economic growth, eco-efficiency of economic growth, and environmental sustainability vis-a-vis environmental performance: and four pillars of Green growth: eco-tax reform, sustainable infrastructure, the greening of business and sustainable consumption.

This report prepared by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management assesses best available science on the environmental and resource impacts of production and consumption.

The Green Race is On is the title of the WBCSD's Annual Review 2009. It is only in the past five  years that thoughtful companies have begun to understand the vast opportunities of moving toward a sustainable world, and that science has made clear the global catastrophes inherent in un-sustainable development.

The Vision 2050 report lays out a pathway leading to a global population of some 9 billion people living well, within the resource limits of the planet by 2050. This work results from an 18-month combined effort with CEOs and experts, and dialogues with over 200 companies and external stakeholders in some 20 countries.

The Inclusive Business Challenge" is an easy-to-use presentation and simulation tool to help
companies and stakeholders identify and implement models that profitably engage low-income populations across companies' value chains and develop affordable products and services that meet the needs of low-income populations.

Recent international experience has demonstratedthat Integrated Assessment (IA) can contribute to sustainable development outcomes by makingassessment practice more integrated in terms of sustainability dimensions, more proactive andopportunity-oriented, less procedural and more anintegral part of a policymaking process.

This book is designed to enable policy and decision makers, policy analysts, and other actors involved in policy making processess to appreciate the full value of Integrated Policymaking in its environmental, social and economic dimensions. It draws on decades of experience acquired by UNEP and other organizations in sustainablilty-motivated policy assessment and interprets these in the light of recent advances in public policy science.

This insightful book explores the issue of sustainable development in its more operative and applied sense. Although a great deal of research has addressed potential interpretations and definitions of sustainable development, much of this work is too abstract to offer policy-makers and researchers the feasible and effective guidelines they require.

In the course of daily operations, all businesses impact and depend on ecosystems and the essential ecosystem services they provide. In fact it is hard to think of any economic activity that does not benefit from ecosystem services or in some way alter the ecosystems around it. Corporate ecosystem valuation refers to the use of ecosystem valuation by business where both ecosystem degradation and the benefits provided by ecosystem services are explicitly accounted for with the intention of informing and improving corporate decision-making.

Over the past decade, there has been growing concern among international stakeholders, particularly in Mediterranean countries, about aquaculture product quality, knowledge management, interaction with the environment, technology and systems, fish health and welfare, management of biological lifecycles and sustainable feed production within the aquaculture sector.

UNEP's objective in Afghanistan is long-term : to create a truly lasting foundation for environmental management and sustainable development. In its forst six years the programme has surprised many observers by its record of success and lasting commitment in the most difficult of circumstances.

The WBCSD studied the state of mobility in four rapidly growing cities in the developing world ?
Bangalore, Dar es Salaam, São Paulo and Shanghai. Its final report concludes that although
mobility opportunities are increasing and are an important driver of economic development in all
cities, overall mobility systems are not sustainable and for poorer residents the mobility situation is
deteriorating.

Cement Technology Roadmap: Carbon emissions reductions up to 2050” calls for strong national policies to activate known CO 2 mitigation actions that the cement industry can take now to reduce its emissions. It also issues a call to action to develop commercially-viable carbon capture and storage technologies as a method for further reducing global CO2 emissions from the cement industry.

The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development.