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Bâtir un système financier durable dans l’Union Européenne: Les 5 R de l'innovation politique et de marché pour la transition verte - Résumé
Ce rapport fait état des actions en cours au niveau de l’Union et dans certains États membres pour aligner les règles gouvernant le système financier avec la durabilité environnementale. Ce débat évolue rapidement, avec ... -
Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate - Key Messages
(2021)1. Countries need to deliver on their existing commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land and make similar commitments for marine and coastal areas. 2. Unfortunately, we are still going in the wrong direction. ... -
Biodiversity and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(2016-10)This short document provides illustrative examples of how biodiversity can play an essential role in efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Details on ... -
Blending Water Management and Climate Change Adaptation Approaches
(2022-11)Blending Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is one key vehicle to facilitate taking real action to reduce climate impacts on water and avoid the worst of potential consequences ... -
Blockchain Technology and Environmental Sustainability - Foresight Brief No. 019 October 2020
This Foresight Brief explores how blockchain technology could contribute to enhancing environmental sustainability management. The brief builds upon environmental use cases to review the technology’s key features, including ... -
Blue Carbon – Nationally Determined Contributions Inventory. Appendix to: Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems Opportunities for Nationally Determined Contributions
(2016)This appendix provides an inventory of the existing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ratified National Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ... -
Brief Information of WOD 2018: Kiribati
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018-09-21)Country activities on the occasion of World Ozone Day, 2018 -
Briefing Note for UNEA-6: Bern III Conference – Preliminary Highlights
(2024-02)This is a Briefing Note for UNEA-6 with Preliminary Highlights from the Bern III Conference, to support UNEA-6 MEA high-level side event #5 “MEAs cooperation and the GBF: Insights from the Bern III Conference” to be held ... -
Briefing Note on the Task Force on Monitoring for The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
(2021)The Task Force on Monitoring (Monitoring TF) brings together 277 technical experts from 100 organizations tasked with collaboratively developing a monitoring framework for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration ... -
Building a Sustainable Financial System to Serve India's Development Needs: Executive Briefing
(2014)Global investment needs for sustainable development in developing countries-for power, transport, telecoms, water and sanitation, food security and agriculture, climate change, eco-systems, education and health - have been ... -
Building Back Better: The Role of Green Fiscal Policies - Policy Brief
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the many fragilities of our economies, and deepened existing inequalities, while highlighting the need for resilience, innovation, and cooperation in our societies. The immediate priority ... -
Building Resilient Societies after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Messages from the International Resource Panel
(2020)The world is experiencing an unprecedented moment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. For us at the International Resource Panel (IRP) it is also a moment to reflect. This document provides policy recommendations extracted ... -
Business Plan of the Mercury Waste Management Partnership Area (2022-2024)
(2022-02)Following priority actions were identified under the current objective: a. Identify and disseminate measures to prevent the generation of and promote environmentally sound source separation, storage, collection, transportation, ... -
Business Plan of the Mercury Waste Management Partnership Area - March 2020
(2020)This Business Plan describes the main objectives and activities of the Mercury Waste Management Partnership Area of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Mercury Partnership. It serves as a planning and ... -
Challenges for the Growth of the Electric Vehicle Market - Foresight Brief No. 017 June 2020
Electric vehicles (EV) can play an important part in the decarbonisation of the traffic sector. This helps in climate mitigation and positively impacts the air quality of cities, due to reduced emissions such as CO2, NOx, ... -
The Changing Aral Sea - Foresight Brief No. 003 October 2017
(2017)The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth largest inland lake. Its hydrological balance is strongly determined by inflows from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers which are fed by glacial melt waters from the southwestern ... -
Cheat Sheet: Proposed Additional HS Code Sub-Headings for HFCs in Advance of the 2022 HS Code Update - OzonAction Policy Brief
(2020)This document suggests how the recommendation of the World Customs Organization (WCO) on establishing additional digits in the existing 2017 national HS codes to identify specific HFCs could be implemented. -
Chemicals in Plastics - A Summary and Key Findings
(2023-05)“Chemicals in Plastics: A Summary and Key Findings” has been prepared on the basis of the “Chemicals in Plastics: A Technical Report” .developed by UNEP in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the ... -
China and UN-REDD Programme, What They Can Do Together to Mve the REDD+ Agenda forward?: Ecosystem Management Policy Brief 10
(2012)The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD Programme) is an opportunity to support and advance the REDD+ mechanism negotiated ...