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This guidance document is part of the “Flood Management Tools Series” being compiled by the Associated Programme on Flood Management. The document is based on available literature, and draws findings from relevant works wherever possible. 

This guidance document presents that an Integrated Flood Management (IFM) approach, which is an essential component of Integrated Water Resources Management, can help to balance flood risk management and development needs.

This guidance document presents six paintings, produced by the Italian painter Elisabetta Farina and commissioned by WHO for the initiative named Art for Health. The document underlines the global impact making use of images of women from different regions speaking the six World Health Organization (WHO) official languages. It points out that women are one of the groups vulnerable to the health consequences of climate change while recognizing their role as actors of change.

This guidance document presents studies that examine the health implications of actions in both high-income and low-income countries designed to reduce the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. 

This analytical document conducts a quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. This constitutes an update and a further development of the assessment that was first published by WHO for the year 2000, now with a wider range of health impacts, and projections for future years.

This guidance document reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008–2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate variability and change in low- and middle income countries worldwide. The document also presents results of qualitative research undertaken to document lessons learned and good practice examples from health adaptation projects to facilitate assessing and overcoming barriers to implementation and to scaling up.

Ce document propose un outil permettant d’évaluer les lacunes qu’un pays aurait pour concevoir et mettre en oeuvre un plan national d’adaptation. Pour ce faire, un cadre d’évaluation des compétences est présenté.

This guidance document provides an overview of the sustainable energy needs, issues, opportunities and barriers that children are facing and proposes a set of recommendations to address these.

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.