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- initialism United Nations Environment Programme
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Hiring processes should be made transparent; personnel at all levels should be selected on the basis of demonstrated merit; leading professionals from academia, NGOs, and business should be encouraged to work at UNEP for short stints to instill fresh ideas and innovative approaches into the organization; and long-term UNEP staff should receive more management training, stronger performance incentives, and be subject to higher levels of accountability and performance review.
Global Environmental Governance~ Elements of a Reform Agenda 2007
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I mean we seem to be seeing the increasing frequency over recent years these kinds of events, said Nick Nuttall, chief spokesman for UNEP, which is based Nairobi.
Drought Just One Example of Africa’s Changing Environment 2011
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Dangerous levels of hydrocarbonsThe agency, also known as UNEP, found that massive oil pollution has devastated farming and fishing industries in Ogoniland and said communities are exposed on a daily basis to dangerous levels of hydrocarbons, including cancer-causing benzene, in the air they breathe and the water they drink.
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By the end of a whirlwind week, they had issued the Stockholm Statement, established what is now known as UNEP, and given birth to the modern field of international environmental law.
Dan Worth: On Gore, Tipping Points, The Law of the One, and Google's New Climate Maven 2008
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In order to reestablish science as the basis of global environmental policy, institutions that make up the GEG system — and particularly UNEP, which is at the core of this system — should be seen by all as being among the first place to look towards when one needs to get authoritative science.
Global Environmental Governance~ Elements of a Reform Agenda 2007
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One of the planning papers, entitled The UNEP That We Want, was produced by a specially selected group of influential environmental bureaucrats and delivered to the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
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One of the planning papers, entitled The UNEP That We Want, was produced by a specially selected group of influential environmental bureaucrats and delivered to the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
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One of the planning papers, entitled The UNEP That We Want, was produced by a specially selected group of influential environmental bureaucrats and delivered to the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
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One of the planning papers, entitled The UNEP That We Want, was produced by a specially selected group of influential environmental bureaucrats and delivered to the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
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One of the planning papers, entitled The UNEP That We Want, was produced by a specially selected group of influential environmental bureaucrats and delivered to the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
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