This review examines the impacts of reactive nitrogen on the environment, human health and economies from local to global scales. About 40% of the human population depends upon food production made possible by synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. Combustion of fossil fuels adds more reactive nitrogen to air, water and soil. This distortion of the global nitrogen cycle, while raising agricultural yields, causes degradation of water and air quality, biodiversity, ecosystem services and human health. Meanwhile, reactive nitrogen deficiencies on farmland inmany developing countries continue. to create economic and health hardships, and accelerate land degradation.

The articles in this issue of Industry and Environment examine the challenges of balancing the economic and social benefits of chemicals with their health and environmental risks. This is at the heart of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management.

The title of this issue of Industry and Environment implies a question : how can consumers - that is, all of us - be encouraged to consume more sustainably ? The retail industry, the focus of this issue, has many of the keys to answering that question.

Research reports and work completed as part of the Cement Sustainability Initiative at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development from 2000 until 2002.

The issue focuses on the state of the environment and sustainability in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Latin America. It discusses key regional industrial challenges to be addressed for bringing about a sustainable future.

The issue examines the role of business and industry in bringing about the changes needed for sustainable development through the views of business, academia, NGOs, an intergovernmental organization and a trade union federation.

This double issue is devoted to summarizing the results of CP7, including such recommendations as building better links between cleaner production and multilateral environmental agreements, expanding the network of UNEP/UNIDO National Cleaner Production Centres, further encouraging investment in cleaner production; and expanding activities related to consumption. Many of the articles in this issue represent concrete examples of the links between cleaner production and sustainable consumption and how they relate to the challenges ahead.

This report tackles the challenge of encouraging business to innovate to become more sustainable. It aims to help companies to identify market needs to match their core competences, and how new products and services can be developed.

The Agenda for Action represents the cement industry’s response to research and stakeholder meetings focused on how to make the sector more sustainable. It outlines a set of individual and joint initiatives to be tracked and reported on in 2005 and 2007.

The Agenda for Action represents the cement industry’s response to research and stakeholder meetings focused on how to make the sector more sustainable. It outlines a set of individual and joint initiatives to be tracked and reported on in 2005 and 2007.

The Battelle Institute report, Toward a Sustainable Cement Industry, summarizes two years and more than 1,500 pages of research on sustainable development issues in the cement sector.

The Battelle Institute report, Toward a Sustainable Cement Industry, summarizes two years and more than 1,500 pages of research on sustainable development issues in the cement sector.

The booklet presents a number of information sources that can be of assistance in obtaining further information about cleaner production.

This evaluation covers the project that was implemented jointly by UNEP and WCD on environmental, social and economic impacts of large dams. The evaluation established the following : that this UNEP project was essential to the WCD work programme, that the outputs were reflected in the WCD report and that the project successfully established linkages between WCD and other agencies and organization.

This easy-to-use compact reference system provides essential resource material related to industry's response to the Montreal Protocol. The case studies included on this CD-ROM, not only show the success of the treaty, but also different companies' efforts to develop reliable alternatives to Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS). Although specifically developed to assist National Ozone Units and industry in developing countries, this CD-ROM is useful to anyone interested in the Montreal Protocol and the phase-out of ODS.

A guide to the application of Cleaner Production in the dairy industry, with a focus on the processing of milk and milk products at dairy processing plants. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of dairy processing, and to highlight approaches that industry and government can take to avoid or minimise these impacts by adopting a Cleaner Production approach.

A guide to the application of Cleaner Production to the fish processing industry, with a focus on the manufacture of fish fillets, canned fish, fish meal and fish oil at fish processing plants. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of fish processing, and to highlight approaches that industry and government can take to avoid or minimise these impacts by adopting a Cleaner Production approach.

A guide to the application of Cleaner Production to the meat processing industry, with a focus on the slaughtering of cattle and pigs at abattoirs. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of meat processing, and to highlight approaches that industry and government can take to avoid or minimise these impacts by adopting a Cleaner Production approach.

This second issue of Industry and Environment on the subject focuses on environmental management and global reporting, environmental and toxicity issues, economic and social issues, tailings and waste, voluntary non-regulatory and regulatory initiatives. It also presents viewpoints on future challenges.