Browsing Knowledge Repository by Topic "Finance and Economic Transformations"
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2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero-emissions, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2019)The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36% of final energy use and 39% of energy and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, 11% of which resulted from manufacturing building materials and ... -
2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2022-11)Decarbonizing the buildings sector by 2050 is critical to delivering these emission cuts – and to addressing the wider triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. ... -
2050 Electronic and Electrical Waste Outlook in West Asia
(2023-03)This Outlook provides projections for e-waste generation and challenges of managing e-waste in an economically diverse West Asia region. It also provides a stepwise approach for countries to manage e-waste in an environmentally ... -
30 Foresight Briefs: Early Warning, Emerging Issues and Futures - Special Edition 2017-2022
(2023-01)Foresight is a powerful tool for leveraging Humanity´s ability to think about and build the Future. It provides a way to think about possible, alternative and desired futures. By doing so, it enables individuals, organisations ... -
4 Projects at a Glance: Kenya - Project Sheet for SWITCH Africa Green Programme
(2017)Kenya projects include: Greening SMEs Leather Clusters and Leather Tanning Industry, Enhancing Sustainable Tourism Innovation for Community Empowerment In Kenya, Up-Scaling Sustainable Commercial Production Of Medicinal ... -
6 Projects at a Glance: Uganda - Project Sheet for SWITCH Africa Green Programme
(2017)Projects from Uganda include Upscaling Generation, Commercialization and Utilization of Biomass Waste-based Green Energy Sources in Uganda, Demand-side Management of Water Use in Micro, Small, Medium-sized Enterprises in ... -
Accelerating Sustainability through Digital Transformation: Use Cases and Innovations - Supplement Number 1 to the CODES Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age
(2022-06)This Supplement Number 1 to the CODES Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age reflects the outcomes of a collective intelligence process across the CODES community to identify use cases and innovations that ... -
Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age
(2022-06)Digitalization has enormous potential to support progress towards sustainability however we need to move the focus away from the pursuit of short-term, unsustainable gains towards the achievement of long-term values-driven ... -
Adapt to Survive: Business Transformation in a Time of Uncertainty - GEO for Business Brief No. 1
(2021)For nearly 50 years, UNEP has been working to improve the environment for current and future generations. As part of this work, UNEP periodically asks the expert community to assess the current state of the environment, ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow - Climate Adaptation Failure Puts World at Risk
(2022-11)Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity, The international community must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a transformation of energy, industry, transport, food systems, financial systems ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced. Underprepared. Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation leaves world exposed
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) series provides an annual science-based assessment of the global progress on adaptation planning, financing, and implementation. It also explores options for enhancing and advancing ... -
Addressing Unique Drivers of United States Household Food Waste
(2022-12)Objective: Recommend strategies and tools to reduce household food waste in the United States, based upon a comparative analysis of households in the United States and in other developed countries with less per capita food waste. -
Advertisement: United Nations Environment Programme Junior Professional Officer Request - Associate Programme Officer: Industry and Economy Division [Closing Date: 8 September 2023]
(2023-07)The Junior Professional Officer will support the increasing demand of the Economic Policy Team on strategic planning and analytical work according to the Inclusive Green and Circular Economy theory of change and results ... -
Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund: SWITCH Africa Green Regional Sector Meeting on Sustainable Agriculture, 2019
(2019)The mission of the meeting was to realise the potential of Africa’s agricultural production, manufacturing, service provision and trade for the benefit of the poor and to support additional decent employment and income ... -
Africa Clean Mobility Week - Conference Report
(2018-04)The Africa Clean Mobility Week was held at the UN Environment Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya on 12-16 March 2018. The week brought together stakeholders from within and outside the region to address challenges and map out ... -
Africa Environment Outlook for Business: Our Environment Our Health
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)AEO for Business aims to identify and document options for stimulating the linkages between business and environmental sustainability in Africa while augmenting their benefits to people, nature, and economies and achieving ... -
African Guarantee Fund Presentation to SWITCH Africa Green Regional Sector Meeting
(2019)African Guarantee Fund Presentation -
ALC Laboratorio del Futuro en Innovación y Política Soluciones a prueba del futuro para PYMES ecológicas - 13 de octubre de 2022 | 9:00 am - 12: 30 pm (UTC-5) | Digital
(2022-09)Principales objetivos y resultados El objetivo de la serie Laboratorio del Futuro es • Apoyar el diseño de soluciones a prueba del futuro que atiendan las necesidades de las PYMES para adoptar la innovación para la ... -
Análisis del Marco Legal de Comras Públicas en Ecuador: Oportunidades y Barreras para la Incorporacion de Criterios Sostenibles
(2016)Los sistemas de contratación pública se crearon con el objetivo de optimizar los procesos de ejecución de obras, adquisición de bienes y prestación de servicios del sector público, para lograr una adecuada administración ... -
Análisis del Marco Legal para la Incorporación de Compras Públicas Sustentables
(2008)Entendemos por compras sustentables al proceso mediante el cual las organizaciones satisfacen sus necesidades de bienes, servicios, obras y utilidades públicas de tal forma que alcanzan un alto rendimiento basado en un ...
