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This activity report provides helpful guidance on implementing articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Convention, and especially how to address a number of key challenges identified by the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee and others. 

This guidance document explains the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs), which provides an incentive to reduce levels of pollution and promote cleaner systems of production and healthier communities and ecosystems. The Protocol will enable ordinary members of the public, simply by using the Internet, to find out about the major sources of polluting emissions in their immediate neighbourhoods. 

This guidance document presents the Aarhus Convention, which is a unique environmental treaty linking environmental rights with human rights.

This guidance document is intended as a convenient non-legally binding and user-friendly reference tool to assist policymakers, legislators and public authorities in their daily work of implementing the Convention and of realizing the provisions of Principle 10 in practice. The document draws on other international law instruments in the area of the environment and human rights.

This guidance document, which was prepared by the Protocol on Water and Health, illustrates effective ways to minimize impacts of extreme weather events on water and sanitation.

This guidance document collects a vast range of experiences in order to illustrate the different steps in developing a basin-wide adaptation strategy with concrete examples and thereby to distil some recommendations to take into account in similar efforts in the future.

This analytical document provides information to national governments and international organizations on issues of long-range and intercontinental transport of climate-relevant air pollution. 

This guidance document presents progress and future prospects in greening the economy in the pan-European region, identifies priorities for greening the economy in the region, and possible modalities and options to achieve the latter.

This guidance document outlines a range of systemic interrelated measures for a progressive transformation towards low-energy, low-carbon, highly resilient and ultimately climate neutral cities. Its recommendations fall under four main headings: waste management, low-carbon mobility, urban energy infrastructure and urban form and green spaces; with coordination through a well-managed city-level framework being perhaps the most essential ingredient for success.

This policy document presents practical recommendations to help overcome barriers to energy efficiency in housing. The document illustrates them with some successful examples that can inspire action, in particular in transition countries. The report builds on the Action Plan for Energy-Efficient Housing in the UNECE Region – a concrete and comprehensive list of actions to support housing energy efficiency.

This guidance document describes how the forest sector in the UNECE region could lead the way towards the emerging green economy at the global level. It provides an overall vision, objectives and specific activities, and identifies potential actors, who might contribute to achieving the stated objectives.

This guidance document provides a comprehensive list of the advantages of Inland Water Transport (IWT) (superior safety, high versatility, good reliability, low costs, high energy-efficiency, good carbon footprint, low noise levels, low infrastructure costs, integration into supply chains, etc.). The document also present policy recommendations in 7 priority areas to make IWT in the UNECE region more efficient and sustainable.

This analytical document presents some of the potential impacts of the different manifestations of climate change on transport networks, paying particular emphasis identifying issues pertinent to transport infrastructure in the ECE region and taking into account the different modes of transportation. It also provides a summary of available adaptation responses.

This technical document presents recommendations for improving the statistics related to climate change collected by national statistical systems and enhancing their utility for the compilation of greenhouse gas inventories.

This policy document offers recommendations to the UNFCCC on how Carbon Capture Use and Storage, including carbon capture and storage for enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons, can positively contribute to net climate change mitigation outcomes as part of the policy portfolio established to support the post-2015 instrument.

This guidance document highlights best policy practices for promoting energy efficiency in the UNECE region and beyond. It presents a structured framework of policies and measures to promote energy efficiency investments for climate change mitigation and sustainable development, as well as to develop a menu of energy efficiency policies and measures.

This guidance document is developed to provide participants in UN Women’s Master Class (MC) on a “Rights-based approach to Gender and Climate Change”, took place from 15-18 June 2014 in Tangail, Bangladesh. The document can serve now as a background and training material for similar workshops and events on the theme of gender and climate change from a rights-based approach. It is updated based on the discussions and outcomes of the Master Class, so that it can inform other groups and individuals active in the field of gender and/or climate change in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

This technical document provides a comprehensive situational analysis of women in three eco-zones – flood, cyclone, and drought prone. Focus of the study was to identify viable livelihoods for the women affected by climate change.

This guidance document presents the vulnerabilities of women in flood, cyclone, and drought prone areas in the face of climate change. The document finds that women face more difficulties when exposed to climate change and disasters. Recommendations for this report point to the need for disaster risk reduction and climate change to address the inequalities in the household and the community to lessen women’s vulnerability.

This activity report provides a kit of good practices for the more than 100 women living in oases in the south-eastern province of Errachidia who have found a unique way to both earn and income and mitigate the effects of climate change on their environment by producing medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs).