A booklet highlighting UNDP's prompt response to the environmental disaster that hit the Lebanese coastline resulting from the air strike on the fuel storage tanks of the Jiyeh power plant.
The objectives of this assessment are to identify and prioritize environmental impacts caused by the July 2006 war, to propose measures to alleviate those impacts rated as significant, and to recommend opportunities for greening the recovery, reconstruction, and reform process
In the coming decades, the world’s rapid urbanization will be one of the greatest challenges to ensuring human welfare and a viable global environment.