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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 ... -
Acronyms and Abbreviations [The Sixth Global Environment Outlook]
(2019-03)These are the acronyms and abbreviations of the GEO-6 Assessment Report. -
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 ... -
Analysis of Consultation Process Results
(2020-11)Following is a summary of the key results of the month-long consultation on the future of the GEO process. The analysis was prepared to inform the deliberations of the Steering Committee on the future of GEO at its November ... -
Annex II - Multistakeholder Partnerships
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Annotated Provisional Agenda - UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen Second meeting
(2022-01)Annotated provisional agenda -
Background Document for Agenda Item 2: Preparations for the special session on the commemoration of the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP@50) - [World Environment Situation Room (WESR)]
(2021-11)This note serves as a background document for consideration of agenda item 2: Preparations for the special session on the commemoration of the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP@50), sub-item (a) ... -
Big Data Services: Data and Analytics, Early Warning and Science Foresight for Action - Transforming the Lives of People, Places and Planet
(2022-07)The Big Data Initiative builds Environmental Strategic Foresight and insights for policy through analysis of data, mapping trends, creating scenarios and identifying emerging issues on a permanent basis, at the frontier ... -
Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policy-making for a Pollution-free Planet
(2024-06)Pollution, including from chemicals and waste, is a global problem — deadly to humans, destructive to ecosystems and disastrous for economies. -
The Caribbean Digital Twin Prototype (CDTp) & Data Hackathon - Data Workshop/Hackathon Announcement
(2023-08)The Caribbean Digital Twin prototype (CDTp) is an innovative initiative that aims to improve our understanding of the Caribbean region’s coastal and ocean environment and ultimately inform policy making. The CDTp will be ... -
Chapter 1. Listening to Cities: From Noisy Environments to Positive Soundscapes - Frontiers 2022 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2022-02)Sounds are complex physical phenomena originating in the vibration from a source that propagates energy into a medium as an acoustic wave. Sounds happen continuously and are everywhere: there is no such thing as 'silence' ... -
Chapter 1: Background - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)The Measuring Progress series explores the relationship between environmental indicators and economic or social indicators. In this report, data availability for one thematic area was considered to further explore possible ... -
Chapter 2. Wildfires under Climate Change: A Burning Issue - Frontiers 2022 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-02)Wildfires are a natural feature of the Earth system, necessary for the functioning of many ecosystems. Interactions between vegetation and climate over extended periods establish a particular pattern of wildfire recurrence ... -
Chapter 2: The state of the environment - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)This chapter aims to showcase the progress in data availability in relation to specified SDG indicators. The purpose is not to explain why indicators’ trends are increasing or decreasing. The change in category (that is, ... -
Chapter 3: Methodology - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)While the Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs (2021) report focused on understanding the interlinkages through a statistical correlation analysis, the proposed methodology herein will further develop the statistical ... -
Chapter 4: Freshwater-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)Many relationships were identified as significant for freshwater-related ecosystems. This chapter explores the significance of such relationships and whether such relationships are confirmed by scientific evidence. -
Chapter 5: Marine-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)SDG 14 is the dedicated goal towards the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources. This goal includes 10 targets and 10 indicators related directly to marine-related ecosystems. Yet only ... -
Climate Early Warning and Capacity Building
(2024-02)The Climate Early Warning and Capacity Building Unit focuses on strengthening country capacities for the collection, management, and use of climate and environmental data, information, and knowledge for data-driven climate ... -
Climate Stability Presentation
(2023-10)Government and nongovernment development actions are compatible with the long-term mitigation and resilience goals of the Paris Agreement.