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8th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum - Resilience of Communities
(2023-08-29)Background documentation for the forum consists of four resilience outlooks that provide a snapshot of the stream-specific aspects of resilience at the regional level, depicting challenges, promising innovations, best ... -
8th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum - Resilience of Food Systems
(2023-09-08)Background documentation for the forum consists of four resilience outlooks that provide a snapshot of the stream-specific aspects of resilience at the regional level, depicting challenges, promising innovations, best ... -
Advancing Effectiveness of Climate Adaptation - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #7
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-10)Evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation policies and actions is important to advance the scale and scope of climate risk reduction. The goal of this WASP Sciencefor-Adaptation Policy Brief (SAPB) is to enhance the ... -
African Elephant Action Plan
(2023)The African Elephant Action Plan (AEAP) is a framework for the conservation and management of the African elephant. It was developed, and is owned and managed, by the African elephant range States, and as such represents ... -
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Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Summary
(2013)A Product-Centric approach is necessary to promote metals recycling in the 21st century. This means the application of economically viable technology and methods throughout the recovery chain to extract metals from the ... -
Briefing Note on Process and Nominations for the Secretariat’s Proposal for a Bureau of the GEO-7 Ad-hoc Open-ended Meetings of Experts
(2022-09)Following the invitation to Member States and Stakeholders to nominate experts from UNEP’s Executive Director in her letter dated 17 June 2022, the Secretariat has received more than 250 nominations to attend the 2 inaugural ... -
Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ can Support a Green Economy: Summary for Policy Makers
(UNEP, 2014)This summary report highlights key findings from the report of the international resource panel: building natural capital: How REDD+ can support a Green Economy. It should be read in conjunction with the full report. -
Buildings and climate change: status, challenges and opportunities
As one of the products of the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Initiative (SBCI), this publication outlines the salient features of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from building use and construction. The ... -
Capacity Building Impact Brief
(2024-06)Five Years of Capacity Building - This brief showcases the activities and impact of work undertaken on capacity building for sustainable land use finance by UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit in collaboration with partners such ... -
Climate change challenges for Africa: evidence from selected EU-funded research projects
Africa, while currently responsible for a negligible amount of total global greenhouse gas emissions, is under significant threat from climate change. Changes in precipitation levels, likely increase in temperature extremes ... -
Co-Chairs' Summary of the First Round of Regional Consultations on Nature-based Solutions
(2023-09)A summary by the Co-Chairs of the intergovernmental consultations on nature-based solutions of the first round of regional consultations. -
Communication strategy for the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership
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A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons from the United Nations Environment Programme - Policy Brief
(2024-03)Over the past decade, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has embraced Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) in supporting climate change response projects across the world. The adoption by UNEP of the EbA approach ... -
Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth - Summary
Humankind has witnessed phenomenal economic and social development in the past century. However, there are increasing signs that it has come at a cost to the environment and to the availability of cheap resources. Despite ... -
Developing a National Action Plan to Reduce and, Where Feasible, Eliminate Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining - Guidance Document
(2017)This document represents an expansion of this original guidance document and is intended to reflect the language of the Convention and other advances in understanding of the ASGM sector. It is intended to provide guidance ...