The purpose of this handbook is to help civil society and those working on water and sanitation issues to adopt a human rights-based approach to advocacy, so that they can improve water and sanitation service regulation and provision at international, national and local levels.

Emissions trading systems (ETS) can play a major role in a cost-effective climate policy framework. Both direct linking of ETSs and indirect linking through a common crediting mechanism can reduce costs of action. Use a global recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model to assess the effects of direct and indirect linking of ETS systems across world regions.

Factoring the planet's multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into policy-making can help save cities and regional authorities money while boosting the local economy, enhancing quality of life, securing livelihoods and generating employment according to this study released by TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers at the biodiversity conference in Ghent, Belgium. 

This paper outlines potential water-related risks facing the mining industry and highlights important gaps in water-related disclosure. It focuses on global hardrock minerals operations and does not cover industrial or fuel minerals.

Transport is the sector with the highest final energy consumption and, without any significant policy changes, is forecast to remain so. In 2008, the IEA published 25 energy efficiency recommendations, among which four are for the transport sector.

The objective of this study is to investigate how output-based aid (OBA) could be used to increase sustainable access to sanitation services.

Since the completion of the endosulfan review in 2005, a significant amount of new information has become available in relation to both the toxicity and environmental aspects associated with endosulfan.

This report by the CEECEC project aims to provide a blueprint for capacity building activities for collaborative research between civil society organisations (CSOs) and researchers working on issues of environmental conflict.

The World Intellectual Property Indicators 2010 provides a wide range of indicators covering various areas of intellectual property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs and microorganisms.

The role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the transfer of climate change technologies has emerged as a particularly contentious issue in the past two years.