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To create an enabling framework for the long-term, sustainable integrated management of the Kura-Aras River Basin following IWRM principles and avoid overuse and conflicting uses of water resources.

The objective of this proposed long-term program is to clean-up Africa from stockpiles of obsolete pesticides, including POPs, and introduce the preventive measures that would ensure sustainability of the operation by preventing the creation of new stockpiles. This would be achieved through a phased program with clearly established criteria for eligible activities and verifiable benchmarks between phases, implemented through a "strategic partnership" similar to the one adopted for the Black Sea-Danube Nutrient Reduction Program.

Grasses comprise a large and diverse plant group that is probably the most important to mankind, yet has rarely been the focus of biodiversity projects. Another largely neglected group in biodiversity studies is insects and other arthropods, which represent about 70% of the world’s biodiversity. Both figure strongly in agrobiodiversity, as beneficial species (crops and enemies of pests) and as noxious species (weeds and crop pests) that nevertheless may act as reservoirs of beneficial species. Yet species and races of grasses and insects are under threat due to increasing human pressure.

The project objective is to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide by improving energy management practices and identifying investments in SMEs through a structured approach. The approach will be built on and consistent with the Environmental Management System framework embodied in UNEP’s Cleaner Production programme.

This project will demonstrate cost-effective, environmentally sound, and locally appropriate alternatives to DDT for malaria vector control, ensuring their sustainable use through strengthened national and local capacity for malaria control.

This project seeks to provide a strong base for the Africa Land and Water Initiative in the contexts of the respective countries' development programs.

1. Increase public awareness of global environmental issues and international environmental agreements (MEAs)2. Increase motivation, interest and participation of general public and Latin American & Caribbean owners of SMEs in global environment issues, and in replicating environmentally sustainable initiatives.

This project will promote the early phase out of methyl bromide in Central and Eastern Europe and Baltics CEiTs through Awareness raising, policy development and demonstration/training activities.

This project will provide solar and wind resource data and geographic information assessment tools to public and private sector executives who are involved in energy market development. It will demonstrate the use of these instruments in investment and policy decision making and build local capacities for their continuous use. The project will enable private investors and public policy makers to assess the technical, economic and environmental potential for large-scale investments in technologies that enable the exploitation of two increasingly important sources of renewable energy.

The coastal marine and natural resources of south-east Asia's Straits of Malacca and Singapore are estimated to have a net economic value of over $5 billion, which make it one of the most valuable international sea lanes in the world. The Marine Electronic Highway (MEH) Demonstration Project is the first phase of a potential tow-phase MEH Development Program that is designed to help the littoral countries conserve sustainable use of resources. The Program's economic development goal is to improve the efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability of marine transport through the Straits.