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This report focuses on how innovation policies can expressly promote industrial development, and what lessons can be learnt from existing experiences of countries, both developing and developed. It...

Awareness of the importance of environmental issues has become more and more central to the thinking of the oil industry and regulators. This publication presents guidelines on environmental...

The Technology and Innovation Report 2018 discusses the role of frontier technologies in sustainable development. It outlines the main features and the manifold ways in which they can accelerate...

This publication has been prepared in response to requests from around the world to provide communities with help in planning for accidents arising from the transport of dangerous goods. The purpose...

New data from UNAIDS on the global HIV response reveals that during the last two years of COVID-19 and other global crises, progress against the HIV pandemic has faltered, resources have shrunk, and...

This report makes clear that there is a path to end AIDS. Taking that path will help ensure preparedness to address other pandemic challenges, and advance progress across the Sustainable Development...

The UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report 2021 examines the likelihood of frontier technologies widening existing inequalities and creating new ones. It also addresses the national and international...

We live in a time of rapid technological change, at the height of the digital transformation and the early stages of the Industry 4.0 revolution. When guided by an inclusive and sustainable compass...

Intended to be used world-wide to meet the requirements of both developing and developed countries, this Guide is designed to improve the professional practices in wood preservation plants and make it...

The public reporting by companies on environmental performance is now emerging as one of the most pressing environmental challenges for business. The report provides information and inspiration to...

Experts from governments, research facilities, the manufacturing sector, emergency operations centres and libraries among others offered their suggestions on the books they have found to be most...

The production of electronics components comprises a varied set of processes, each with its own complex web of potential environmental hazards. This publication offers specific, lengthy and detailed...

Unless properly controlled, mining, smelting and refining of nickel ores can cause considerable health and environmental damage. This technical guide provides information on the environmental impacts...

Both trainers and professionals working in the field of hazardous waste management will find this Manual of great assistance. It analyzes landfill problems and options faced by many national...

Textile production is an important contributor to many national economies. Its diverse operations have a significant impact on the local environment, presenting health and safety risks to its...

This is a technical report that provides an overview of both large-scale and small-scale mining and their potential impacts on the environment with measures to reduce this impact. Possible sources of...

This report addresses the environmental considerations that corporations have already been able to include into their activities in a view to encouraging others to improve on the environmental...

The 2010 Technology and Innovation Report - Enhancing Food Security in Africa Through Science, Technology and Innovation - focuses on the challenges of improving agricultural performance in Africa and...

This report argues that responding to the dual challenge of reducing energy poverty and mitigating climate change requires a new energy paradigm. Such a paradigm would have renewable energy...