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Trade in Environmentally Sound Technologies Opportunities and Challenges in the ASEAN Region - Policy Brief
(2019)Trade in environmentally sound technologies offers triple win opportunities for the environment, economy and people in developing countries. This project aims to support and enable developing countries in the ASEAN region ... -
Trade in Environmentally Sound Technologies Opportunities for East African Countries - Policy Brief
(2019)Trade in environmentally sound technologies offers triple win opportunities for the environment, economy and people in developing countries. Expanding the use of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) can serve as a ... -
Trade in Environmentally Sound Technologies: Implications for Developing Countries - Policy Brief
(2018)Environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) are technologies that have the potential to significantly improve environmental performance relative to other technologies. They are not just individual technologies but can also ... -
Transboundary Climate Risk and Adaptation - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #2
(2020)Key Messages: i) Adaptation science should support the policy community to adopt a transboundary lens to better manage the systemic nature of climate risk. ii) Adaptation is not (just) local or national – it can also be ... -
Transformation to a Sustainable World
(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. -
Transforming South Africa’s Agricultural Sector by Integrating Climate-smart Agriculture in Support of the Green Economy - Switch Africa Green Programme Policy Brief 4/2020
(2020)Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. CSA aims to ... -
Turning off the Tap: Key Messages
(2023-05)Turning off the Tap: How the world can end plastic pollution and create a circular economy, is a solutions-focused report, offering concrete practices, market shifts and policies. It is published ahead of a second round ... -
Turning the Golden Tide: Engaging Women and Youth in Sargassum Influx Management
(2021)This summary document is based on the updated UNEP-CEP Sargassum White Paper. The brief: • Provides key messages that highlight the vulnerability of women and youth to sargassum influx events. • Details the role women ... -
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030): Flagship Initiatives
(2022-01)With a mandate by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 73/284, the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 was successfully launched on World Environment Day, 5 June 2021. Its partner network has grown to ... -
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030: Partnership, Outreach and Communication Strategy - Summary Version
(2020)In the context of the Decade, ecosystem restoration refers to a wide continuum of practices ranging from tree planting to increasing the capacity of agricultural fields to store carbon and the recovery of fish stock along ... -
Uncovering Pathways towards an Inclusive Green Economy: a Summary for Leaders
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)An Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) is focused on expanding options and choices for national economies, using targeted and appropriate fiscal and social protection policies, and backed up by strong institutions that are ... -
Understanding Blended Finance in the Lens of Integrated Financing: Blended Financing Overview
(2023-11)As the world grapples with the triple planetary crises, a substantial gap of $700 billion per year has been identified by the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM GBF). Bridging this gap requires additional ... -
Understanding the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C
(2018)In 2015 governments adopted the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change (see below) and invited the IPCC to prepare a special report in 2018 to assess the impacts and related pathways of warming of 1.5ºC. This brief ... -
UNEA-Accredited Faith-based Organisations: Platform for Enhanced Coordination
(2022-07)As of June 2022, there are 58 accredited faith-based organisations to UNEA, classified within the NGO Major Group. Accredited FBOs account for approximately 10% of the total accredited organisations. At the ‘Faith for ... -
UNEP and Indigenous Peoples: A Partnership in Caring for the Environment: Policy Guidance: November 2012
(2012-11)The objective of this Policy Guidance to UNEP is to better understand and build on the Indigenous Peoples’ rights, knowledge, practices and systems that provide the framework for the harmonious relations that most Indigenous ... -
UNEP Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework (ESSF)
(2020)UNEP’s Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework (ESSF) aims to strengthen the sustainability and accountability of UNEP programmes and projects. It respects human rights and aims to protect people and the environment ... -
UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2024 Key Messages
(2024-03)The Food Waste Index Report is tracking country-level progress to halve food waste by 2030 (SDG 12.3). First published in 2021, the current report builds on recent and greater datasets and provides an update on the scale ... -
The UNEP Foresight Briefs: Early Warning, Emerging Issues and Futures - Archive since July 2017... to the Future(s)
(2021-12)Foresight Foresight Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change, feature an emerging science topic, or discuss a contemporary environmental issue. They provide a systematic way of examining possible alternative ... -
UNEP key messages on COVID-19 - Latin America and the Caribbean
(2020)This document serves as an outline for UNEP´s insight on the environmental dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the interconnected nature of all life on this planet.