Browsing Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies by Title
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Lao PDR - Building Resilience of Urban Populations with Ecosystem-based Solutions: Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) - Brief
(2023-02)The Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) of the project “Building resilience of urban populations with ecosystem based solutions in Lao PDR” has described the requirements for the establishment of a project-specific ... -
Lao PDR: Building Resilience of Urban Populations with Ecosystem-based Solutions - Policy Brief: Gender Action Plan
(2023-02)The Gender Action Plan aims to create gender parity in the involvement of women in the planning, implementation and monitoring phase of the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) project activities. The two main goals of the ... -
Launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - Partners’ Brief: What You Can Do Now, What You Could Consider Next and What We Can Achieve Together
(2020)The public-facing launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is now confirmed to occur with World Environment Day, on June 5, 2021. This is excellent news: World Environment Day typically reaches 100s of millions ... -
Lessons Learned from Technical Assistance on Economic Valuation, Business Analytics and Mobilizing Public and Private Finance: A Summary of Technical Assistance on Economic Valuation, Business Analytics and Mobilizing Public and Private Finance. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)The present brief begins by examining good practices implemented or promoted over the past five years under the Programme to stimulate partner countries to transition to a green economy, in which forest protection is ... -
Leveraging Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) for COVID-19 Recovery in the Caribbean SIDS
(2022)We are pleased to announce that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will initiate the project Leveraging Sustainable Public Procurement for COVID-19 Recovery in the Caribbean SIDS in six Small Island Developing ... -
Lifecycle Approaches to Waste: Reclaiming the Value of Waste through Innovative Lifecycle Approaches - SDG Policy Brief No. 005 October 2018
(2018-10)Waste is generated at a massive and growing rate but is not always managed appropriately, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and health hazards. With ongoing population growth and rapid urbanization, the ... -
Linking REDD+, the Paris Agreement, Nationally Determined Contributions and the Sustainable Development Goals: Realizing the Potential of Forests for NDC Enhancement and Implementation. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)The UN-REDD Programme has been delivering a knowledge management workstream to provide technical analysis and practical knowledge to countries on how to better mainstream their REDD+ efforts and align them with the provisions ... -
Livelihood security: Climate Change, Conflict and Migration in the Sahel - Executive summary
(2011-12)The Sahelian countries (CILSS) are among the poorest countries in the world with the most degraded environments. They are also among the countries that are the most vulnerable to the estimated effects of climate change. ... -
The Long View: Exploring Product Lifetime Extension - Summary
(2017)The aim of this study is to provide recommendations on the opportunities available to consumers, the private sector and governments, of developed and developing economies, to address product lifetime extension. The primary ... -
Mainstreaming Sustainable Finance: A Briefing
(2018)This briefing summarises the discussions held during the “Mainstreaming Sustainable Finance” event in Washington, D.C. on 20 April 2018. At this convening; senior policymakers and private financial sector leaders shared ... -
Making EbA an Effective Part of Balanced Adaptation Strategies: Introducing the UNEP EbA Briefing Notes - Briefing Note 1
(2020)This briefing note serves as an introduction to the series, with a focus on creating conceptual clarity on EbA and its relation to other related approaches, as well as how EbA is key to achieving a much needed paradigm ... -
Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient - Policy Brief October 2019
(2019)This policy brief, Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient, identifies a critical need to decouple economic growth from the extraction and use of natural resources. Infrastructure development is particularly resource ... -
Making the case for ecosystem-based adaptation: building resilience to climate change
(2012-03)Healthy ecosystems provide valuable services such as food, clean water, protection from disease, and flood and erosion control, while at the same time building resilience against climate change impacts. This has been ... -
Making Waves: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development - Executive Summary
(2018)This report reviews the Inquiry’s core analysis, summarizes progress made in aligning the financial system with sustainable development between 2014 and 2017, reflects on the lessons that can be learned from the Inquiry’s ... -
Managing the Transition
(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. -
Managing Watersheds for Urban Resilience: Policy Brief
(2011-01)This policy brief is intended to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable watershed management for resilient urban planning, and to provide recommendations on how city and municipal governments can effectively ... -
Mapping Global and Regional Stakeholders Working on Digital Sustainability - Supplement Number 2 to the CODES Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age
(2022-06)This Supplement Number 2 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 map key international and regional ... -
Marine Plastics Litter and Microplastics - Foresight Brief No. 002 - September 2017
(2017)The global production of plastics has increased from 1.5 million tons in 1950s to about 300 million tons currently, at an average rate of 4 per cent per annum and is expected to continue growing (Boucher and Friot 2017). ... -
Marine Spatial Planning: a Step-by-Step Approach Toward Ecosystem-based Management
(2009)Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies Descriptions: This step-by-step approach toward ecosystem-based management is a guide to practitioners and managers on how to set up and apply MSP. The guide explains why MSP ... -
Market Study on Sustainable products prioritized for Sustainable Public Procurement in the Republic of Moldova: Executive Summary
(2015)This market study aims to contribute to the selection of two categories of sustainable goods, works and services to be purchased through the pilot tenders. It will do so by analyzing the current capacity of the national ...
