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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. -
UNEP Medium Term Strategy 2014-2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)The UNEP medium-term strategy for the period 2014–2017 plots the direction that UNEP will take in pursuit of that goal. It lays out the vision, strategic objectives and the results which UNEP aims to achieve by 2017. Key ... -
UNEP Medium Term Strategy 2018-2021
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)The medium-term strategy (MTS) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) sets out an analysis of the significant environmental challenges that the world will face in the coming years. Within this framework, the ... -
UNEP Publications Policy 2022
(2022-10)The Publications Policy (2022), together with the 2022 UNEP Publications Guidelines, will replace all previous guidance. It applies to “publications” as defined in Annex 1 of this policy. -
UNEP Publishing Policy - Second Edition
(2007)The purpose of this document is to define and promulgate the basic principles governing publishing at UNEP and the procedures to be followed. -
UNEP Strategy for Environmental Education and Training: A Strategy and Action Planning for the Decade 2005 - 2014
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2005)This Strategy presents the required strategic elements and the associated actions necessary for UNEP to play its role in meeting the goals of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). It further paves the ... -
UNEP – Your Partner on the Journey to Tackle the Triple Planetary Crisis
(2022-03)For five decades, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been a leading advocate for the environment, a steadfast partner and a trusted adviser. UNEP monitors the state and health of the planet, ensures that ... -
UNEP@50: Narrative, Messaging and Communications Plan
(2021)Position UNEP at the forefront of a transformation of the global multilateral environmental system, towards a new social contract between people and planet -
The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: Strategy
(2020)purpose of the strategy is threefold: firstly to catalyse a new approach to national development, with ecosystem restoration being central to development planning and investment; secondly to promote broad and representative ... -
United Nations Development Account Project “Enhancing Sustainable Public Procurement for the Regional Transition to Inclusive Green Economy in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia” Eco-labels: How can they be Scaled up, Streamlined and used to drive Sustainable Consumption and Production?
(2021-03)On 23 March 2021 the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) – as part of the UN Development Account project "Enhancing sustainable public procurement for the regional ... -
United Nations Development Account Project “Enhancing Sustainable Public Procurement for the Regional Transition to Inclusive Green Economy in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia” Sustainable Public Procurement: The Sleeping Giant
(2021-03)On 2 March 2021, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) – as part of the UN Development Account project "Enhancing sustainable public procurement for the regional ... -
United Nations Environment Programme Strategy for South-South and Triangular Cooperation
(2020)This Strategy provides a framework through which UNEP’s support to Member States on South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) will be enhanced during the coming decade (2020-2030). The Strategy is aligned to other ... -
Unlocking Trade in Environmentally Sound Technologies to Tackle Air Pollution
(2019)Environmentally Sound Technologies are defined as technologies that protect the environment, are less polluting, use all resources in a more sustainable manner, recycle more of their wastes and products and handle residual ... -
Unveiling Plastic Pollution in Oceans - Foresight Brief No. 018 August 2020
(2020-08)Marine plastic litter pollution is a global concern that threatens seas and the ocean, biodiversity, human health and economic activities such as tourism, fisheries and marine navigation/transportation. Plastics represent ... -
Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation - Briefing Note 8
(2022-07)Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a strategy for adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change by harnessing nature and the services it can provide. This strategy is crucial for cities and peri-urban areas, threatened ...