Browsing Knowledge Repository by Author "Baker, Elaine"
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Drowning in Plastics: Marine Litter and Plastic Waste Vital Graphics
United Nations Environment Programme; GRID-Arendal; Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam, Stockholm Conventions (2021)This publication aims to provide a complete overview of the global challenges related to marine litter and plastic waste through a combination of condensed descriptions of key thematic areas and graphic illustrations that ... -
Global Environment Outlook for Cities – GEO for Cities: Towards Green and Just Cities
United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Human Settlement Programme (2021-11)This second edition of GEO for Cities is an extension of the main GEO-6 report, presenting and explaining the findings of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) flagship environmental assessment in a way that ... -
Guidelines for Conducting Integrated Environmental Assessments [2017]
United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Environment Programme (2017)United Nations Environment Programme is pleased to provide new Guidelines for Conducting Integrated Environmental Assessments. With the leadership of the Assessment Methodologies, Data and Information Group under the Global ... -
Plastics in Agriculture - an Environmental Challenge - Foresight Brief No. 029 July 2022
United Nations Environment Programme (2022-07)Plastics are used extensively in farming, from plastic coated seeds to mulch film. They also make their way into biosolid fertilizer which is spread on fields. All these products have helped increase crop yields, but there ... -
Plastics in Agriculture: Sources and Impacts - Working Paper
United Nations Environment Programme; GRID-Arendal (2021-12)This working paper is an initial assessment of the potential impact of plastics used in agriculture. The paper focuses primarily on identifying sources of plastics and examining the fate of plastic residue in agricultural ... -
Smoke on Water: Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation - A Rapid Response Assessment. Revised Edition
United Nations Environment Programme; GRID-Arendal (2017)More than 180 countries have peatlands but we are only just starting to understand their role in both climate change and our efforts to curb it. Peatlands cover less than three percent of the Earth’s surface but are the ... -
Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires - A Rapid Response Assessment
United Nations Environment Programme; GRID-Arendal (2022-02)Free-burning landscape fire is an important natural phenomenon critical to the healthy functioning of many ecosystems. It is an important land management tool, culturally, economically, and ecologically. Therefore, not all ... -
Technical Summary - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People
United Nations Environment Programme (Cambridge University Press, 2020)This Technical Summary synthesizes the key evidence and messages of GEO-6. Chapter 1 sets out the context and methodological approach of the GEO-6 assessment. It is followed by chapters that: i) discuss the five drivers ... -
Wastewater – Turning Problem to Solution. A UNEP Rapid Response Assessment
United Nations Environment Programme; GRID-Arendal (United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)This new report builds on the previous Sick Water? report (https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/9156), starting with the premise that wastewater is an important and valuable resource that can also help avoid costs of ...