Meeting report describing assessment protocols for a lagoon ecosystem on the East coast of India

In 2015, total production of electricity was 28 ktoe of which 46.4 came from fossil fuels and 42.8 per cent from hydro sources.

This report seeks to investigate the financial standards and further to consider to what extent they currently relate to sustainable development, how they can support and solidify the various G20 policy commitments and the evolving country-level regulations and industry activities in a way that builds on the synergies that already exist.

Over the last 15 years, Uganda has achieved spectacular economic growth, thanks to the introduction of an enabling macro-economic environment and political stability. However, this economic growth has only recently manifested itself due to the fact that tremendous damage was done in the 1970s and early 1980s. Many Ugandans are still confronted with poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and a continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which the country's largely rural population depends.

Responding to United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council decision 27/2 and United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) 1 resolution 1/ 4, United Nations Environment Programme is ready to launch its new study called: Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface: A gap analysis. The world is increasingly faced with environmental challenges which are exacerbated by an absence of coordination among different actors around the globe. In a global political context where scientific evidence is not often understood or used by policy-makers, there is a growing disconnect that has emerged, which not only dismisses but excludes opportunities for collaboration. Science and policy are at a crossroads. The interface needs to be framed by an effective and efficient governance structure to promote better interaction between the two. This inter can be facilitated by operational knowledge from non-state actors. A dynamic science-policy interface can be a core instrument to support well-informed decision making on the environment while also engaging the right actors in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This report aims to identify new ways to improve the science-policy interface by: Providing a summary of the characteristics of an effective science-policy interface. Identifying the gaps found in practice in science-policy interfaces. Providing practical steps that the Member States and international organizations can take to fill these gaps The report addresses the existing gap in collaboration between scientists and policymakers, and how closing it could protect this planet and its people. It also suggests that non-state actors can be more closely involved in policy design. This might include businesses, city networks and non-governmental organizations who understand what’s involved in implementing specific policies. Finally, it highlights the importance of making high-quality scientific data readily available to the right people. United Nations Environment programme hopes that scientists, policy makers and decision makers from industry and civil society, will use the new tools and approaches in this report to create a better future for all of us. The report was launched during the Science Policy Business Forum, held in Nairobi from the 2nd to the 3rd of December 2017. The key findings will be presented to the Member States during the 4th Global authors meeting of the Global Environment Outlook-6, taking place from the 19th to the 23rd of February 2018 in Singapore.

Information document of the 8th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

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Presentataion at the 12th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

目的采用Meta分析探讨近十年中国大陆医学生自杀意念发生率,为预防医学生自杀及开展医学生心理健康教育提供参考依据。方法计算机检索Pub Med、CNKI、Wan Fang Data和CBM数据库,搜集2007年1月1日至2017年5月31日发表的有关中国大陆医学生自杀意念的文献,由两名研究者独立进行文献筛选、资料提取和评价纳入研究的偏倚风险后,采用Stata 12.0软件进行Meta分析。采用亚组分析和Meta回归分析探索异质性来源,并通过敏感性分析探索单个研究对合并效应量的影响。结果共纳入30篇文献,包括58 757名中国大陆医学生,自杀意念发生率介于0.84%41.35%。纳入研究间的异质性较大（I2=99.1%,P0.1）。结论中国大陆医学生的自杀意念发生率相对较高,提示应当对此予以重视并制定相关的...

目的采用Meta分析系统定量地评价我国高中生与大学生艾滋病健康教育的干预效果,为在学生群体中开展艾滋病健康教育提供科学依据。方法以"艾滋病"、"健康教育"、"大学生"和"高中生"为主题词和关键词联合检索Pub Med、中国知网和万方数据库的相关文献,各数据库检索时间范围限定在2006年1月—2017年6月。对符合纳入排除标准的文献进行质量评价及摘录所需数据,以健康教育前后艾滋病常识得分作为效应值,运用Revman 5.3软件进行Meta分析。结果共纳入19篇合格文献。Meta分析结果显示,健康教育对中学生与大学生艾滋病常识得分影响的标准均数差(Standard Mean Difference,SMD)=1.17(95%CI=0.88～1.47)。结论健康教育对提高我国高中生与大学生艾滋病相关知识的知晓有较好的效果。

Over 1.2 billion people across the world loose their lives in traffic crashes each year. In Brazil alone this number exceeds 40, 000 per year and continues to grow. This policy brief looks at low speed zones as an important policy and planning solution in the fight against traffic crashes.

Coral reefs constitute an invaluable heritage & a common federating theme for regional cooperation in Western Indian Ocean region due to the connectivity of their marine environments and the ecological and socio-economical services they provide.

Presentation at the 13th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

Report on the Key Outcomes of the Second IGR for the GPA

Energy is a growth industry in Côte d’Ivoire. The country is an important supplier of energy to the region due to the excess electricity it generates, and its reserves of natural gas and recent offshore finds of oil and natural gas. Electricity production in 2015 was 648 ktoe with 66.5 per cent produced from fossil fuels and 31 per cent from hydro sources. Final consumptionof electricity in the same year was 774 ktoe with industry consuming 19.2 per cent and transport consuming 99 per cent of electricity produced (Table 2) (AFREC, 2015).

Presentation at the 10th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

The Fourth and final Global Authors Meeting of the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) will be held at the Regent Hotel on 1 Cuscaden Road in Singapore, from 19 to 23 February 2018. The meeting is co-organised by UN Environment and the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources of Singapore. The major theme of the meeting is cities and urbanization. Significant communications and outreach events are planned around this theme throughout the week of meetings.

The findings of the report point out the importance of joining forces for acting now as well as the huge potential that resource efficiency can have, if it is implemented carefully and supported across different sectors and at multiple levels. The pressing need to invest in resource efficiency could actually lead to a positive economic outcome. The report shows how resource efficiency can lead to higher economic growth and employment, if supported by well-designed policies.

Agenda for the session: Sustainable nutrient management: global challenges, regional priorities and perspectives; and developing the future agenda for joint actions

This report presents the results of the SABER-Teachers tool as applied in Singapore. A collaborative effort between the UNESCO International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 and the World Bank Group's SABER-Teachers initiative made this report possible. All data collection, related analysis, and report preparations were completed by UNESCO using the World Bank Group's SABER tools. The report describes the performance of Singapore's education system in achieving each of the eight teacher policy goals. It also contains comparative information from education systems that have consistently scored highly on international student achievement tests and those that have previously participated in the SABER-Teachers initiative. This report has been formally endorsed by the Ministry of Education of Singapore. Additional information on the teacher policies in the education systems of Singapore and other countries can be found on the SABER-Teachers' website.