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Adaptation Decision-Support Tools and Platforms - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #1
(2020)Key messages: • Decision support for adaptation should be useful (relevant, comprehensive and reliable) and usable (accessible, authoritative, attractive and engaging). • Failure to deliver successful decision support can ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2020 - Key Messages
(2021)2020 was not only the year of the pandemic, it was also the year of record temperatures and growing climate change impacts: floods, droughts, storms, wildfires and locust plagues. Even more worrying is that, based on current ... -
Addendum to the Emissions Gap Report 2021: A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of New or Updated Nationally Determined Contributions, other 2030 Pledges and Net-Zero Emissions Pledges Announced or Submitted Since the Cut-Off Dates of The Emissions Gap Report 2021
(2021)This note provides a preliminary assessment of the implications of the new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs), other 2030 mitigation pledges and net-zero announcements made after the cut-off dates used ... -
Addressing Smallholder Resilience in Coffee Production in the Central Highlands, Viet Nam: The Business Case for Intercropped Coffee Production - Executive Summary
(2020)Coffee production in the Central Highlands faces a multitude of challenges; decades of intensive cultivation and expansion onto marginal land has degraded the soil quality and left smallholders less resilient to both climate ... -
Addressing the Role of Natural Resources in Conflict and Peacebuilding – Executive Summary of Progress from UNEP's Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme 2008-2015
(2015)The purpose of this executive summary is to highlight the progress and results that the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding (ECP) programme has achieved in the field of environmental security and peacebuilding from ... -
African Circular Economy Alliance (ACEA) - Briefing Note to the AMCEN on ACEA Progress and the World Circular Economy Forum 2022 (WCEF2022)
(2022-09)In 2020, the Secretariat of the ACEA was set up after the African Development Bank agreed to serve as its host. With funding from the World Economic Forum and the Danish Development Agency, Dalberg, an international ... -
African Ocean Governance Strategy: Scoping Study and Gap Analysis
(2020)The purpose of this paper is to carry out a scoping study and gap analysis that examines existing ocean governance mechanism; and to provide recommendations that may provide elements of a concise African Strategy on ocean ... -
Africa’s Engagement in the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly of UN Environment Programme: Note by the Secretariat - African Ministerial Conference on the Environment - Eighth Special Session, Ministerial meeting
(2020)This note aims to stimulate discussions during the eighth special session of the African Ministerial Conference, on how Africa can better engage in the 2021 Environment Assembly. This will include discussions on the ... -
Agriculture and Natural Resources Governance: Legal Tools for Inclusive and Sustainable Transformation - Legal Brief 12
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2023-10)This Legal Brief reviews the concept of sustainability and systems thinking in legislative efforts, as well as relevant guiding principles. It then reviews a number of legal tools and mechanisms, namely impact assessments, ... -
Aid for Trade: A Vehicle to Green Trade and Build Climate Resilience
(2020)Aid for Trade (Aft) is a mechanism to support developing countries build the capacity and infrastructure needed to benefit from trade opening. It accounts for roughly 30% of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA). Developing ... -
Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions - Summary
(2018)This report identifies 25 clean air measures that can positively impact human health, crop yields, climate change and socio-economic development, as well as contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. ... -
Air Quality in Bishkek – Assessment of Emission Sources and Road Map for Supporting Air Quality Management: Key Messages
(2022-10)This study is the first comprehensive analysis of key emission sources and their impact on ground-level air pollution concentrations in Bishkek, thus providing decision-makers for the first time with scientific evidence ... -
Aligning Resource Efficiency and Economic Efficiency
(2017)The International Resource Panel was established in 2007 to provide independent, scientific assessment on the sustainable use of natural resources and the impacts of resource use over the full life cycle. -
Annex 1: Glossary of Key Terms - UNEP Monitoring and Reporting Policy [Coming Soon]
(2024-03)This document promulgates the revised UNEP Policy on Monitoring and Reporting. It supersedes the UNEP policy on programme monitoring approved on 10 March 2010. This policy underlines the Organization’s commitment to reinforce ... -
Annex 2. Indicative Activities and Sub-activities - [Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration]
(2020)The activities and sub-activities presented in the table below are indicative because it is not known which partners will contribute to their implementation. Commitments to undertake specific activities will take place ... -
Annex 3. Initiatives, Institutions, Education Programmes, Policies and Conventions Highlighted by Stakeholders in Feedback received on the Online Draft Strategy as Particularly Relevant for the Decade - [Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration]
(2020)The information presented in this annex is not an exhaustive list. It only draws on information provided in the online feedback. Additional information will be added to this ‘living document’ through the course of the ... -
Antigua and Barbuda: Sustainable Public Procurement Action Plan
(2021)To date, there have been no substantive initiatives undertaken by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to implement SPP. There is a low level of awareness of SPP with the public sector and, as a result, no stimuli have ... -
Applying Marine and Coastal Area-Based Management Approaches to Achieve Multiple Sustainable Development Goal Targets - Summary for Policy Makers. UN Regional Seas Reports and Studies No.206
(2018)This document summarises the key findings of a Technical Report exploring the potential contributions of marine and coastal area-based management approaches to Sustainable Development Goals. The document also presents a ...