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Our Planet: Making Our Future Chemical-Safe
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2015)
Chemicals are used in almost every area of the world economy. The future of sustainable development is therefore inseparable from the way chemicals are managed from their design to production, use and disposal. In this ...
Healthy Planet, Healthy People - Our Planet May 2015
(2015)
Perhaps nowhere is the importance of a well-managed environment as clear as in human health”, write Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Margaret Chan, Director-General ...
Global Climate Action: Innovations and Best Practices - Our Planet December 2015
(UNEP, 2015)
The momentum towards a low-carbon economy is unstoppable. This is the year in which the world not only decided that growth must be sustainable, equitable and low carbon, but also took crucial strides towards the inclusive, ...
Growing a green economy in Africa: why forests matter
(UNEP, 2015)
There is economic potential in African forests but it is threatened by an increasing demand for forest products, and by encroachment from other sectors. The Briefing explores the potential of a ‘green economy’ approach to ...
REDD+ Academy Learning Journal Edition 1 - Fall 2015
(2015)
The REDD+ Academy is a coordinated REDD+ capacity development initiative led by the UN-REDD Programme and the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit, which seeks to match the scale of the global climate change ...