Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy Collectionhttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/ESDC/browse/?fq=untl_institution:UNT&sort=title&display=list&fq=str_location_country:Malaysia2010-09-11T23:15:36-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy CollectionCapability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon2010-05-28T13:18:34-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13715/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13715/"><img alt="Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon" title="Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13715/small/"/></a></p><p>According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).</p>The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change2010-05-28T13:18:34-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13712/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13712/"><img alt="The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change" title="The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13712/small/"/></a></p><p>According to the introduction, this report provides a global estimate of the cost of reducing the rate of deforestation.</p>Renewables 2010: Global Status Report2010-09-11T23:15:36-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28540/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28540/"><img alt="Renewables 2010: Global Status Report" title="Renewables 2010: Global Status Report" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28540/small/"/></a></p><p>This report describes economic trends in building the capacity of renewable energy in several countries.</p>Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 1, 20052010-09-11T23:15:36-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28549/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28549/"><img alt="Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 1, 2005" title="Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 1, 2005" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28549/small/"/></a></p><p>Tunza is a magazine published by the UN Environment Programme about environmental issues from a youth perspective. This issue is about transportation, urban planning, waste management, and ecology.</p>Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 8, Number 1, 20102010-09-11T23:15:36-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28569/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28569/"><img alt="Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 8, Number 1, 2010" title="Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 8, Number 1, 2010" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28569/small/"/></a></p><p>Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to biodiversity and threatened habitats.</p>Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future2010-07-07T13:45:27-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc25999/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc25999/"><img alt="Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future" title="Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc25999/small/"/></a></p><p>This report outlines the strategic direction of the energy sector to meet its growing energy demand in an environmentally-sustainable manner over the next two decades, and presents a pathway of policy frameworks and financing mechanisms to get there. This study found that large-scale deployment of energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies can simultaneously stabilize East Asia’s CO2 emissions by 2025 and significantly improve the local environment and enhance energy security, without compromising economic growth.</p>