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National Action Plan for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Egypt 2015: SwitchMed Programme - Executive Summary
(2015)This document is intended to identify key priority activities and projects needed to support the creation of sustainable communities and cities in Egypt through the promotion of sustainable consumption and production ... -
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP)
(2014-09-01)This National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) for Afghanistan has been prepared by the National Environmental Protection Agency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, with technical and advisory inputs from ... -
National Funding Mechanisms for REDD+: Lessons Learned and Success Factors. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)UN-REDD technical assistance as it relates to national REDD+ funding mechanisms focuses on helping countries to create structures that meet the requirements of various sources of international funding while fitting into ... -
National Solid Waste Management Strategy for United Republic of Tanzania
(2018)The strategy for Solid Waste Management (SWM) is aiming at attaining sustainable management of solid waste that contributes to achieving economic and social benefits to Tanzanian people within the next few years. This ... -
National Strategy for Used Lead Acid Battery (ULAB) Recycling in Bangladesh: A Sustainable Strategy for ULAB Waste Management
(2021)Among many issues related to the burning concern of environmental pollution, toxic chemical impacts are gradually drawing attention to global and national policies. One such rising concern is the ramifications of the impacts ... -
Nature-based Infrastructure (Executive Summary): How natural infrastructure solutions can address sustainable development challenges and the triple planetary crisis
(2023-11)The purpose of this report is to assess the contribution that NbI can make to addressing global sustainable development challenges, with a view to increasing awareness and uptake. It provides a framework for thinking about ... -
Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Challenges - Foresight Brief No. 023 March 2021
(2021-03)Climate change was recently added to the wide range of agelong social challenges stemming from urbanisation. These challenges are becoming increasingly urgent to address. This is because cities are developing at the fastest ... -
Nature-positive Trade for Sustainable Development: Opportunities to Promote Synergies Between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and Work on Sustainable Trade at the WTO
(2023-11)This policy brief seeks to present a mutually supportive vision for biodiversity, sustainable trade, and sustainable development towards 2030 and beyond, using the WTO’s multilateral trade framework as its backdrop. -
Navigating New Horizons Key Messages
(2024-07)Navigating New Horizons – A Global Foresight Report on Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing, from the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Science Council, calls for the world to pay heed and respond ... -
Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing - Executive Summary
(2024-07)This Navigating New Horizons report outlines a process focused on planetary health and human wellbeing—an intentional framing to expand the range of issues and informed views that typically shape UNEP’s work. Why? To ensure ... -
Navigating the Adaptation Challenge - Briefing Note 2
(2020)This Briefing Note introduces how resilience thinking, which considers interactions within a coupled socialecological system, can help to navigate the adaptation challenge and explores the use of ecosystems as part of the ... -
The Need to Eliminate Lead Paint Globally – Foresight Brief No. 021 - December 2020
(2020)Lead has wide-ranging effects on health, with concomitant personal, societal and economic impacts, and thus, it was identified as one of the 10 chemicals of major public health concern globally -
Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) Phase I Final Report - Executive Summary
(1989)A Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) was established comprising of research institutions, laboratories, government agencies, and pulp and paper mills located in seven countries of the Asia and the Pacific ... -
A New Deal for Nature
(2019)In 2020, world leaders will meet in China to agree on a new set of commitments to conserve nature. They will also review progress towards targets set in 2010; but the news is not all good. Only a quarter of land on Earth ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Account for the True Value of Nature
(2019)Decisions that affect biodiversity have a key economic dimension. Global capital markets – responding to consumers – will determine in large part whether the Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved by 2030. However, ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Change the Way We Produce and Consume Food
(2019)The way we produce and consume food is causing major environmental and human health issues, and transforming the agri-food system has become a priority for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Food must be produced, ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Conserve Wildlife and Wild Spaces
(2019)The loss of the world’s biological diversity poses an existential threat to the future of the planet. As key species are declining at alarming rates, some estimates point to 1,000 times the natural rates, natural systems ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Promote a Better Built Environment
(2019)Multiple interlinkages exist between biodiversity, ecosystems and landscapes on the one hand, and diverse forms of infrastructure on the other hand, including water and sanitation, transport, buildings, energy, food systems, ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Restore the Degraded Planet
(2019)Unsustainable human activities, from farming and mining to industry and infrastructure, are undermining the productivity of vast areas of farmland, forests and other ecosystems across all continents. This degradation ... -
Nile River Basin: Adaptation to Climate Change Induced Water Stress in the Nile Basin - Summary for Decision Makers
(2015)Water is one of several current and future critical issues facing Africa and the Nile Basin in particular. Water supplies from rivers, lakes and rainfall are characterized by their unequal natural geographical distribution, ...