Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "ZOONOTIC DISEASES"
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Annotated Provisional Agenda - African Ministerial Conference on the Environment - Eighth special session: Ministerial Meeting
The special session will provide an opportunity for the continent to find common ground for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, to be held in ... -
Articulating Social and Environmental Policy for post-COVID-19 Recovery: Opportunities to Respond and Build Back Better while Leaving No One Behind in Latin America and the Caribbean - Policy Brief
(2020)Environmental considerations can be integrated in the response to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This document presents feasible examples and policy tools that integrate and complement social protection goals with ... -
Chapter 2. Zoonoses: Blurred Lines of Emergent Disease and Ecosystem Health - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
The 20th century was a period of unprecedented ecological change, with dramatic reductions in natural ecosystems and biodiversity and equally dramatic increases in people and domestic animals. Never before have so many ... -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild Better - Full Report
The Covid-19 pandemic is increasing poverty and threatening food security. Governments around the world have already invested more than $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could ... -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild Better - Key Messages
(2020)Governments around the world have invested about $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could contribute to progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and global climate ... -
COVID-19: A Warning - Addressing Environmental Threats and the Risk of Future Pandemics in Asia and the Pacific
(2022-10)This scientific review begins with the history of humans and zoonoses and provides clarity on the issues of zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases. It then presents the seven anthropogenic drivers of zoonotic disease ... -
Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions through Nature-Based Solutions and Resource Efficiency - UNEP Factsheet
(2020)COVID-19 presents challenges to achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Recovery from the pandemic requires rethinking the way in which we generate wealth, and shifting ... -
Frequently Asked Questions - Preventing the Next Pandemic: Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission
Factsheet addressing the following questions: What are zoonotic diseases? What is driving the spread of zoonotic diseases? What are the impacts of zoonotic diseases? Africa has an opportunity to lead pandemic prevention ... -
GEO Matters - October 2020
(2020)The GEO for Cities on 9th October 2020 held a successful event at Daring Cities 2020 titled ‘vision and pathway related to circular cities’. Daring Cities is a virtual, action-oriented forum to recognize and empower ... -
Global Environmental Governance - UNEP Factsheet
(2020)It is important that both the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the multilateral environment agreements (MEAs) we support remain active and engaged, and that global environmental governance continues to ... -
Human Rights, the Environment and COVID-19 - Key Messages: Human Rights at the Heart of Response
(2020)The COVID-19 crisis reveals a clear truth about catastrophic risk in an increasingly globalized world: an effective response requires immediate, ambitious and evidence-based preventive action at the international level. ... -
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Global Sustainable Finance: An Initial Framework for Response Strategies - Working Paper
This paper has been developed to support thinking on how to respond to the pandemic from a sustainable finance perspective. Specifically, this paper has two objectives: i) The first is to set out what we know about the ... -
Is the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Building a Sustainable Future?: A Snapshot from Latin America and the Caribbean
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has faced some of the worst health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Amid economic and social disruption, inequality in the world’s most unequal continent ... -
Key Messages - Preventing the Next Pandemic – Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission
This evidence-based scientific assessment has identified the following key messages for decision-makers: 1) De-risking food systems; 2) Urgency; 3) Report audience; 4) Scope of the problem; 5) Outbreak frequency and ... -
Launch of the Earth Science Cafes - 50th Anniversary of Earth Day 22nd April 2020
(2020)The Network of Africa Women Environmentalists (NAWE) is launching a new initiative called the Earth Science Cafes as an online conference event on the fiftieth (50th) Anniversary Earth Day, April 22nd 2020. Each café event ... -
Message from OzonAction on COVID-19
Message from OzonAction to National Ozone Officers in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic -
Nature for Climate Action [Factsheet]
(2021)Conserving and restoring natural spaces, both on land and in the water, is essential for limiting carbon emissions and adapting to an already changing climate. Conserving and restoring nature would provide one-third of the ... -
Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-07)To help navigate current and future uncertainty and disruptive change, while effectively delivering on its mandate, UNEP has been implementing an institutionalized approach to strategic foresight and horizon scanning with ... -
Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing - Executive Summary
(2024-07)This Navigating New Horizons report outlines a process focused on planetary health and human wellbeing—an intentional framing to expand the range of issues and informed views that typically shape UNEP’s work. Why? To ensure ... -
One Health Joint Action Plan of Action (2022-2026): Working together for the Health of Humans, Animals, Plants and the Environment
(2022-10)The scope of the OH JPA is guided by the imperative for an inclusive One Health approach to addressing the health threats of humans, animals and plants in an integrated manner, while promoting environment and biodiversity ...