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OECD Working Paper 206
This working paper provides a comparative review of existing national-level assessments and insights for good practice of incentives and subsidies harmful to biodiversity.
PEI-56_Evaluation des courts_Mauritanie_Version finale-COVER
Cette rapport final reprend les conclusions principales du rapport du même nom. Elle présente les principaux résultats, soulignant nettement que la préservation et la bonne gestion des ressources naturelles est un facteur important de la croissance économique et de la lutte contre la pauvreté.
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Organisation :
World Health Organization (WHO)

This video explains why mercury and, in particular, mercury in skin lightening products, is dangerous to health and the need for countries to take action to ban this source of exposure.

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Organisation :
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
PacWastePlus

This guide is designed to inform policymakers of the process needed to implement effective waste licensing legislation supported by appropriate environmental monitoring requirements.

PEI-63-Mainstreaming-Env-in-EDPRS_Rwanda-COVER
Organisation :
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This brief provides arguments for the mainstreaming of the environment in the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy in progress in Rwanda.

PEI-62_Mainstreaming-env-energy-stras_Rwanda-COVER
Organisation :
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This concept note aims to inform decision-makers on linkages between energy initiatives to address poverty and environmental concerns, with a focus on Rwanda. It provides the background for developing a policy brief concerning the integration, or mainstreaming, of environmental issues into energy initiatives around poverty alleviation.

PEI-61_Env.Poverty Reduction_Rwanda_AnAssessment-COVER
This assessment provides a detailed analysis grounded in the changing paradigm on development in Rwanda, speaking to how relationships can be corroborated empirically and how the evidence should influence the policymaking process at the national, meso, and micro levels.
PEI-60_Pilot Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of Bugesera_Rwanda-COVER
This report describes the Bugesera Integrated Ecosystem Assessment, which was conducted as a pilot study to explore the linkages between human wellbeing and ecosystem services in Rwanda.
PEI-59_Pov-Env. Indicators_Rwanda-cover
This report details the process of identifying and subsequently integrating log frame environmental indicators to support the implementation of the "Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS).
PEI-58_Economic Analysis of NatResMgt_Rwanda-COVER
This report is structured around two arguments: firstly, natural resources and ecosystem services in particular have a significant contribution to economic growth and poverty reduction, secondly, failure to manage natural resources, conserve and protect the ecosystem will result in costs of degradation that will compromise medium and long term sustainable development.