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Understanding Synergies and Mainstreaming among the Biodiversity Related Conventions : A Special Contributory Volume by Key Biodiversity Convention Secretariats and Scientific Bodies
(2016-09)This multi-author volume is an attempt by the United Nations Environment to engage with the Heads of various biodiversity related conventions and Chairs of Scienti c Bodies of the conventions to understand the opportunities ... -
Understanding the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C
(2018)In 2015 governments adopted the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change (see below) and invited the IPCC to prepare a special report in 2018 to assess the impacts and related pathways of warming of 1.5ºC. This brief ... -
Understanding the spread of Sargassum in the Caribbean
(2015-07-01)Sargassum is brown algae which originate in the Sargasso Sea of the Western Atlantic Ocean. It grows up to several meters and can float in the open ocean. -
Understanding the State of the Ocean: A Global Manual on Measuring SDG 14.1.1, SDG 14.2.1 and SDG 14.5.1
(2021)This report aims to provide guidance on how to bring together traditional monitoring techniques with new technologies and data science in order to better monitoring our oceans in the context of the SDGs. The report focuses ... -
Underused Information Exchange Mechanisms in Case of Dealing with Illegal Waste Shipments
(2020)Work package 4 of the WasteForce project (https://www.wasteforceproject.eu/) aims at supporting international operational networking between the EU and the Asia-Pacific region through information-sharing activities and ... -
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The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the Integration of Sound Management of Chemicals into Development Planning Processes
(2012)The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative was established to support the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), a policy framework adopted in February 2006 by the International Conference on Chemicals ... -
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UNEA 2 Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF)
(2016-05)289 persons participated at the GMGSF, where interactive discussion took place, exchange of information and updates were done, included status report and discussion on the state of UNEA2 negotiations. One of the hot issues ... -
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UNEA 3 Side Event on Human Rights and Pollution: Advancing Pollution Controls through a Rights-based Approach
(2017-11)This side event will examine the human rights harms caused by all forms of pollution and the corresponding human rights obligations of duty-bearers to prevent and remedy them. The event will promote effective action to ... -
UNEA Monitoring and Reporting Portal: A User Manual for Member States Version 2.1
(2022-11)This document is intended to serve as a user manual for the UNEA Monitoring and Reporting Portal. The manual provides information about the portal’s functions and features, with step-by-step instructions to Member State ... -
UNEA Monitoring and Reporting Portal: A User Manual for the Secretariat - Version 2.0
(2022-02)This document is intended to serve as a User Manual for the UNEA Monitoring and Reporting Portal. The manual provides information about the portal’s functions and features, with step-by-step instructions to Secretariat ... -
UNEA President Statement: Statement of the President of the United Nations Environment Assembly, H.E. Siim Kiisler, to the High Level Political Forum. 16 July 2018
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UNEA Resolution 5/8 entitled “Science-policy Panel to Contribute Further to the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste and to Prevent Pollution" - Note by the Secretariat
(2022-09-19)The secretariat has the honour to circulate, in the annex to the present note, weblinks to the resolution entitled “Science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent ... -
UNEA Resolutions by Forms of Pollution
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