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Each issue concentrates on one specific theme, tying into international conferences, meetings, events, or dealing with timely issues.

Environmental policy --- Environmental protection --- ENVIRONMENT. --- International cooperation --- United Nations Environment Programme --- United Nations environment programme --- United Nations. Environment programme --- Verenigde Naties. Milieuprogramma

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International Environmental Governance: Towards UNEPO offers a significant contribution to practitioners and scholars involved in international debates regarding environmental governance. Clarifying the insufficiency of the 1972 UN General Assembly’s model of a small UN Environment Programme in helping nations stem the accumulating degradation of the environment across the globe, the work poses the remaining question: how should international environmental governance be accomplished? The volume is timely in its examination of the post-Rio+20 period, and furthermore addresses the vital issue of the evolution of UNEP into a ‘specialized agency’ designated the UN Environment Protection Organization (UNEPO), a ‘new mandate’ to revive the UN Trusteeship Council to supervise environment and the commons, as well as law-making and institution-building processes as reflected in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and other multilateral forms. International Environmental Governance: Towards UNEPO addresses the law-making challenge presented by growth in MEAs and proliferation of international environmental institutions, with a thorough consideration of the debate regarding the need for and efficacy of global governance in the field of environment. Dr. Desai’s timely analysis will assist diplomats, lawyers and scholars, citizens and civil servants alike in finding the new roads forward.

Environmental law, International. --- Environmental management --- Environmental policy --- International cooperation. --- United Nations Environment Programme.

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Mostafa K. Tolba tells the story of the negotiations that led to a number of landmark agreements, such as the Vienna Convention on Ozone and its Montreal Protocol, the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes, and the Biodiversity Convention. Tolba concentrates on the context in which governments conclude that particular issues are ripe for binding international cooperation and on the factors that influence them during negotiations--such as science, the media, nongovernmental organizations, politicians, business and industry, and the public. The areas he discusses include the evolution of environmental law, environmental soft laws (principles and guidelines rather than treaties), binding regional regimes such as the Regional Seas Program and the Shared Freshwater Resources Program, the ozone layer, global warming, hazardous wastes, the loss of biological diversity, and ways to make international agreements work.

Environmental policy --- Environmental law --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- International cooperation --- History. --- History --- United Nations Environment Programme --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- United Nations environment programme --- United Nations. Environment programme --- Verenigde Naties. Milieuprogramma --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Environmental auditing --- #SBIB:327.7H42 --- #SBIB:340H83 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- Specifieke internationale organisaties en samenwerking: milieu --- Internationaal recht: bijzondere vraagstukken: algemeen --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening --- International cooperation&delete& --- UNEP

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Energy efficiency plays and will continue to play an important role in the world to save energy and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, little is known on how much additional capital should be invested to ensure using energy efficiently as it should be, and very little is known which sub-areas, technologies, and countries shall achieve maximum greenhouse gas emissions mitigation per dollar of investment in energy efficiency worldwide. Analyzing completed and slowly moving energy efficiency projects by the Global Environment Facility during 1991-2010, Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency evaluates impacts of multi-billion-dollar investments in the world energy efficiency. It covers the following areas: 1.       Reviewing the world energy efficiency investment and disclosing the global energy efficiency gap and market barriers that cause the gap; 2.       Leveraging private funds with public funds and other resources in energy efficiency investments; using these funds in tangible and intangible asset investments; 3.       Investment effectiveness in dollars per metric ton of CO2 emissions mitigation in 10 energy efficiency sub-areas; 4.       Major barriers causing failure and abandonments in energy efficiency investments; 5.       Quantification of direct and indirect CO2 emissions mitigations inside and outside a project boundary; and 6.       Classification and estimation of CO2 emissions mitigations from tangible and intangible asset investments. Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency can serve as a handbook for policymakers, project investors and managers, and project implementation practitioners in need of benchmarks in energy efficiency project investments for decision-making. It can also be used by students, researchers and other professionals in universities and research institutions in methodology development for evaluating energy efficiency projects and programs.

Energy conservation -- Developing countries. --- Energy consumption -- Developing countries. --- Environmental protection -- International cooperation. --- Global Environment Facility. --- Energy conservation --- Energy consumption --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Energy policy --- Energy consumption. --- Energy policy. --- Economic aspects. --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Government policy --- GEF --- United Nations Development Programme. --- United Nations Environment Programme. --- World Bank. --- Fonds pour l'environnement mondial --- FEM --- Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial --- FMAM --- Global Environmental Facility --- Global Environment Facility Project --- Глобальный экологический фонд --- Globalʹnyĭ ėkologicheskiĭ fond --- Fundo para o Meio Ambiente Mundial --- مرفق البيئة العالمي --- UNDP/GEF --- United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility --- Engineering. --- Energy and state. --- Energy industries. --- Climate change. --- Energy Economics. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Climate Change. --- Industrial policy --- Climatic changes. --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- GEF (Organization) --- FEM (Organization) --- FMAM (Organization) --- UNDP/GEF (Organization) --- United Nations Development Programme --- United Nations Environment Programme --- World Bank --- Global environmental change

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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a publicly funded, multi-billion dollar experiment in global resource management. It was set up in 1991 under the auspices of the World Bank to fund international conventions on climate change and biodiversity. Investigating the workings of this little known aid fund, Zoe Young takes a critical look at the conflicts involved, focusing on how the GEF's agenda relates to questions of globalisation, knowledge and accountability in the United States and the World Bank. Zoe Young explains how the GEF was formed by Western governments to deflect protest against the environmental impacts of the World Bank and the IMF in the 1980s, while retaining control of the scope of the new treaties. She examines the central paradox of the GEF: although intended to promote reform and co-operation for 'global' conservation, the GEF cannot challenge damaging economic policies or powerful interest groups. Instead it has helped to put prices on nature and open up Southern resources and markets to 'global' experts and investors. As our landscapes, fertility, cultures and ecosystems are being destroyed every day, Zoe Young gives a disturbing account of the complex issues that must be addressed before the world's environment can be managed more democratically -- and effectively.

Environmental policy --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Political aspects. --- International cooperation. --- Evaluation. --- Government policy --- Global Environment Facility. --- World Bank. --- GEF (Organization) --- United Nations Development Programme. --- United Nations Environment Programme. --- Fonds pour l'environnement mondial --- FEM (Organization) --- Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial --- FMAM (Organization) --- Global Environmental Facility --- Global Environment Facility Project --- Глобальный экологический фонд --- Globalʹnyĭ ėkologicheskiĭ fond --- Fundo para o Meio Ambiente Mundial --- مرفق البيئة العالمي --- UNDP/GEF (Organization) --- United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility --- United Nations Development Programme --- United Nations Environment Programme --- World Bank --- Világbank --- Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ bank dli︠a︡ rekonstrukt︠s︡ii i razvitii︠a︡ --- MBRR --- Sekai Ginkō --- Kokusai Fukkō Kaihatsu Ginkō --- Kukche Puhŭng Kaebal Ŭnhaeng --- Segye Ŭnhaeng --- IBRD --- Welt Bank --- Weltbank --- Banque mondiale --- Internationale Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung --- Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento --- Banco Mundial --- B.I.R.D. --- BIRD --- Banca Internațională pentru Reconstrucție și Dezvoltare --- Mirovoĭ Bank --- Svitovyĭ Bank --- Svitovyĭ bank rekonstrukt︠s︡iï i rozvytku --- Verdensbanken --- Międzynarodowy Bank Rozwoju i Odbudowy --- Bank al-Dawlī lil-Inshāʼ wa-al-Taʻmīr --- Bank al-Dawlī --- Världsbanken --- Banca ricostruzione e sviluppo --- Banca di ricostruzione e sviluppo --- BIRF --- I.B.R.D. --- B.I.R.F. --- Shih chieh yin hang --- Shi jie yin hang --- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development --- World Bank Group. World Bank --- Thanākhān Lōk --- Bank Światowy --- Viśva Baiṅka --- Lōka Băṅkuva --- Ngân hàng Thế giới --- Vsemirnyĭ Bank --- Bank Dunia --- Msopʻlio Bankis --- Banca Mondială --- BM --- Prapañca Byāṅku --- Banca mondiale --- Banca internazionale per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo --- Dhanāgār Bibhab Lok --- البنك الدولي --- بنك الدولي --- 世界銀行 --- 世界银行 --- 国際復興開発銀行 --- Dėlkhiĭn Bank --- Дэлхийн Банк --- Hamashkharhayin Banki --- Svetska Banka --- Wereldbank --- Internationale bank voor herstel en ontwikkeling