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Key Messages - World Environment Day 5 June 2025
(2025-05)Plastics bring undeniable benefits—from energy savings to material conservation. Yet, the growing crisis of plastic pollution threatens both planetary and human well-being. For decades, plastic pollution has infiltrated ... -
UNEP Partnership Policy
(2024-06)The purpose of the UNEP Partnership Policy (2024) is to facilitate innovative partnerships with a broad range of partners, enabling UNEP and UNEP-administered Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) to act as catalysts ... -
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024-2025: Key Messages
(2025-03)The Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024 -2025: Not just another brick in the wall published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), ... -
Early Warning and Data Analytics: Strategy, Policy and Action for People, Places and Planet - Executive Brief February 2025
(2025-02)Early warning systems (EWS) are an adaptive measure for climate change, using integrated monitoring, forecasting and communication systems to help communities prepare for and manage hazardous climate-related events. ... -
Policy Brief: Integrating a food systems approach into urban and peri-urban agriculture practices and policies in Hanoi, Vietnam
(2024-09)This policy brief aims to identify entry points for supporting enabling policies and governance for UPA development in Hanoi, including policy gaps, opportunities and relevant stakeholders in the city. The methodology used ... -
Policy Brief: Integrating a food Systems approach into urban and peri-urban agriculture practices and policies in Surakarta, Indonesia
(2024-09)This policy brief aims to identify entry points for supporting enabling policies and governance for UPA development in Surakarta, including policy gaps, opportunities and relevant stakeholders in the city. The methodology ... -
Policy Brief: Integrating a food systems approach in Kampala’s urban and peri-urban agriculture policies and practices
(2023-01)The purpose of this policy brief is to propose concrete entry points and policy guidance to promote a systemic approach to UPA in Kampala, based on a mapping of existing initiatives, actors and policies in the city, and ... -
Policy Brief: Integrating a Food Systems Approach into Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Practices and Policies in Arusha, Tanzania
(2024-11)This policy brief aims to provide actionable recommendations and policy guidance to promote an approach to UPA that is integrated into the wider local food system in Arusha. It is based on a comprehensive mapping of existing ... -
The International Day of Zero Waste: Key Messages, 30 March 2025
(2025-02-01)The third annual International Day of Zero Waste will be observed on 30 March 2025. A zero-waste vision promotes sustainable production, and consumption patterns and encourages a shift towards the use of lifecycle approaches. ... -
The International Day of Zero Waste: Towards Zero Waste in Fashion and Textiles
(2025-02-01)Humanity’s unsustainable consumption and production practices are driving the planet towards destruction. Every year, the world generates between 2.1 billion and 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste – from textiles ... -
Aligning Colombia’s Financial System with Sustainable Development: Current Practice and Future Potential to Mobilize Investment for the Green Economy [Executive Summary]
(2015)This document has been commissioned by the IFC and the UNEP Inquiry to explore the state of green finance in Colombia within the wider economic and financial sector context, and at the same time, to identify challenges and ... -
Draft decision 1: Ad interim composition of the Executive Board of the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund
(2024-01)Draft decision for Focal Point review that acknowledges the proposed way forward on the composition of the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund Executive Board until the first International Conference to take place in 2026. -
Measurability structure - Note by the Secretariat
(2023-11-29)Note by secretariat on measurability structure -
Early Warning as a Human Right: Building resilience to climate-related hazards - Executive Summary
(2015)Early warning systems (EWS) can improve resilience of households to climate related hazards, by providing information for early action. However, to be effective, early warning systems must themselves incorporate aspects ... -
Annex I - The 2023 Annex to the CPR on UNEP’s Private Sector Engagement
(2023-01)This document is the 2023 Annex to Annual Report to CPR on UNEP’s Private Sector Engagement. -
Capacity Building Workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in West Asia: Report of the Workshop.
(2024-09-17)United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with Supreme Council for Environment organised this capacity-building workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) to enhance capacity and knowledge of ... -
UNEP-IETC action on EPR: Good Practice emerged from EPR workshops.
(2024-12-03)Good Practice emerged from EPR workshops -
Workshop Report: Practices and lessons learned for the design and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems in the Latin American Region
(2024-12-03)The main objective of the workshop was to exchange best practices, knowledge and challenges for the design and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems, with a focus on South American countries. On ... -
Key Messages - An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2024 Report
(2024-11)The fourth edition of UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)publication, An Eye on Methane: Invisible, but not unseen, takes stock of progress in harnessing a data revolution that can accelerate methane ... -
UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Key Messages
(2024-10)As greenhouse gas emissions reach new highs and climate impacts intensify globally, nations are preparing updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for submission in early 2025 ahead of COP30 in Brazil. The Emissions ...
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