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Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste

This law was established in China to prevent the pollution of the environment by solid waste, to ensure public health and safety, and to promote the development of socialist modernization.
Date: October 30, 1995
Creator: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
System: The UNT Digital Library
Constitution of the People's Republic of China (excerpts of envivonment-related articles) (open access)

Constitution of the People's Republic of China (excerpts of envivonment-related articles)

Excerpts of envivonment-related articles in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.
Date: March 15, 1999
Creator: National People's Congress
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (open access)

Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China

This law is established for the purpose of protecting and improving public health and environmental ecology, preventing and controlling pollution and other public hazards, safeguarding human health, and facilitating the development of socialist modernization in China.
Date: December 26, 1989
Creator: [China] National People's Congress
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grassland Law of the People's Republic of China (open access)

Grassland Law of the People's Republic of China

This Law is established in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China with a view to improving the protection, management and development of grasslands and ensuring their rational use; protecting and improving the ecology; modernizing animal husbandry; enhancing the prosperity of local economies of the national autonomous areas; and meeting the needs of socialism and people's livelihoods. The law was adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress and promulgated by Order No. 26 of the President of the People's Republic of China on June 18, 1985, and effective as of October 1, 1985
Date: June 18, 1985
Creator: National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards Sustainable Global Health (open access)

Towards Sustainable Global Health

Global health has in recent years drawn increasing scientific, political and popular attention not only due to global epidemics themselves,but also because of the social activities and environmental conditions that shape health threats and influence those who are affected. The study dealswith the issue of 'Sustainable Global Health'which has evolved from the realization that there will be no alleviation of poverty without success in control of serious public health threats, no economic prosperity and sustainability without a healthy workforce, and no social stability and peace as long as people have to suffer from insufficient health services, from malnutrition, from HIV/AIDS pandemics, or from lack of safe water. The study addresses a broad range of issues related to human health at regional and global levels. It includes the theme of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as a tool for the private sector to exercise responsibility and interest in using the workplaces as a route and as means for education, and for a wide participation of every citizen in securing his or her individual health and well-being. Highlighted throughout the study are integrated approaches towards sustainable health.These approaches shed light on both the importance of multilevel health governance and the …
Date: 2008
Creator: Exner, Martin; Klein, Günter; Rechkemmer, Andreas & Schmidt, Falk
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on Conserving Energy (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on Conserving Energy

This Law is formulated in order to promote energy conservation by all sectors of society, increase energy efficiency to benefit economic development, protect the environment, ensure national economic and social development, and meet the people's needs in everyday life.
Date: November 1, 1997
Creator: National People's Congress
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on Desert Prevention and Transformation (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on Desert Prevention and Transformation

This Law was formulated in order to prevent desertification, to improve and reclaim desertified land, to protect the environment, and to promote a sustainable economy and society.
Date: August 31, 2001
Creator: National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution

This Law is formulated for the purpose of preventing and controlling atmospheric pollution, protecting and improving the environment for a healthy society and ecology, and promoting the development of a sustainable economy and society.
Date: April 29, 2000
Creator: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution

This Law is formulated for the purpose of preventing and controlling water pollution, protecting and improving the environment, safeguarding human health, ensuring the effective use of water resources and facilitating the development of socialist modernization.
Date: May 11, 1984
Creator: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, P.R. China
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation

This Law was established for the purpose of the prevention and control of soil erosion; the protection and rational utilization of water and soil resources; the mitigation of flooding, drought, and sandstorm; the improvement of ecological environment and the development of production.
Date: June 29, 1991
Creator: National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Clean Production (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Clean Production

This Law was enacted in order to promote cleaner production, increase the efficiency of resource utilization, reduce and avoid the generation of pollutants, protect and improve the environment, ensure public health, and promote sustainable development of the economy and society.
Date: June 29, 2002
Creator: National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data bases of the People's Republic of China (open access)

Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data bases of the People's Republic of China

Two long-term instrumental databases
Date: 1991/1992
Creator: D.P.Kaiser
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Eleventh Five-year Plan for Environmental Protection (2006-2010) (open access)

The National Eleventh Five-year Plan for Environmental Protection (2006-2010)

The current plan is formulated on the basis of the Outline of the 11th Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Economy and Social Development and the Decision of the State Council on the Implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development and Strengthening Environmental Protection [No.39 document of the State Council (2005)]. The current plan is an important part of the national 11th Five-Year Plan system, and aims at expounding the objectives, tasks, investments, and key policy measures in the field of environmental protection during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. The plan identifies the responsibilities and tasks of the government and the environmental protection departments at all levels, guiding and mobilizing the participation of enterprises and civil society and striving for environmentally friendly society.
Date: November 22, 2007
Creator: State Environmental Protection Administration
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Tenth Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection(Abstract) (open access)

The National Tenth Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection(Abstract)

The State Council approved the National Tenth Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection on 26 December 2001, requesting that loca1 governments and the various departments strengthen environmental protection in close relation with the economic restructuring; raise funds for environmental protection through multiple channels in connection with the expansion of domestic demand, and establish the mechanism of environmental protection with the government playing the dominant role with market promotion and public participation. The State Council emphasizes that local governments should undertake the major responsibilities of environmental protection. The governments at various levels should integrate the tasks of the Plan into the target responsibility system for provincial governors, mayors, and county heads. Periodic examination should be carried out on the targets of total pollutant discharge control and environmental quality. The implementation of the Plan should be inspected and reported on every year. The State Council requests that the relevant departments should provide guidance and support in implementing the Plan according to their respective responsibilities. The State Environmental Protection Administration should conduct coordinated supervision, management, and inspection of the implementation of the Plan.
Date: December 26, 2001
Creator: State Environmental Protection Administration
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marine Environment Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (open access)

Marine Environment Protection Law of the People's Republic of China

This law is enacted to protect and improve the marine environment, conserve marine resources, prevent pollution damages, maintain ecological balance, safeguard human health and promote sustainable economic and social development.
Date: December 25, 1999
Creator: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution From Environmental Noise (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution From Environmental Noise

This Law is enacted for the purpose of preventing and controlling environmental noise pollution, protecting and improving the living environment, ensuring human health, and promoting economic and social development.
Date: October 29, 1996
Creator: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
System: The UNT Digital Library
Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy (open access)

Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy

This booklet discusses how energy sufficiency is the best solution for reducing energy consumption and waste. It presents policies for reducing global energy consumption such as energy auditing, phasing out incandescent light bulbs, combined heat/cooling energy and power, carbon-negative cooking, smart metering, area road pricing, and other measures.
Date: 2009
Creator: Rohde, Anja & Bee, Hilmar
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (open access)

The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change

According to the introduction, this report provides a global estimate of the cost of reducing the rate of deforestation.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Grieg-Gran, Maryanne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heading for 100 % renewable urban transport: Policy recommendations (open access)

Heading for 100 % renewable urban transport: Policy recommendations

The brochure promotes urban transportation policy to increase the use of renewable energy to 100%. Seen globally, transport is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet fossil fuels are becoming scarce, will become increasingly expensive and will eventually stop being viable as transport fuels. Before this happens, climate change will have begun to have a serious impact on human lives. The authors believe that it is crucial to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy as soon as possible, especially in the transport sector. Making urban transport independent of fossil fuel is a great challenge, but the authors cite growing evidence that it can be achieved.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gust, Iris & Meusel, Titus
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon (open access)

Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon

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).
Date: April 7, 2008
Creator: Harcastle, P. D.; Baird, David & Harden, Virginia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future (open access)

Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future

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.
Date: May 2010
Creator: World Bank
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNEP in China: Building Back Better (open access)

UNEP in China: Building Back Better

This booklet describes the cleanup and redevelopment effort in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. A sustainable building design was included, which minimizes energy needs for cooling, heating, and lighting, is earthquake resistant, results in zero waste at the construction site, and is made with recycled materials.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Thakur, Reshmi & Potocnik, Matija
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication discusses global environmental efforts, successes, and setbacks of 2004.
Date: 2005
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2006: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2006: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication describes major global environmental issues and policy decisions during 2006.
Date: 2006
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library