Browsing Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies by Language "Chinese"
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Articulating Social and Environmental Policy for post-COVID-19 Recovery: Opportunities to Respond and Build Back Better while Leaving No One Behind in Latin America and the Caribbean - Policy Brief
(2020)Environmental considerations can be integrated in the response to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This document presents feasible examples and policy tools that integrate and complement social protection goals with ... -
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. ... -
Blockchain Technology and Environmental Sustainability - Foresight Brief No. 019 October 2020
(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 ... -
Challenges for the Growth of the Electric Vehicle Market - Foresight Brief No. 017 June 2020
(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, ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis; Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and ... -
Coral Reef Restoration to Improve Ecosystem Services - Policy Brief
(2021)Coral reef restoration is becoming a popular tool to assist the recovery of damaged coral reefs. Over the last twenty years, several methods have been developed and applied with varying levels of success. A recent report ... -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild Better - Key Messages
(2020)Governments around the world have invested about $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could contribute to progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and global climate ... -
Data Reporting Tool for MEAs
(2021-07)DaRT is the first tool supporting Parties to effectively use synergies in the field of knowledge and information management for national reporting to biodiversity-related conventions. DaRT provides private and secure ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2020 - Frequently Asked Questions
(2020)This document addresses the following questions: Emissions Gap Report 2020 – what is it? What are the headlines? What’s the bottom line? What can we do to catch up? Are governments doing enough? Does the report tell us ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2020 - Key Messages
(2020-12)Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century – far beyond the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2021 - Key Messages
(2021-10)The Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On shows that the new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), combined with other mitigation pledges, put the world on track for a global temperature rise of 2.7°C by end of ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2022: Key Messages - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Inadequate Progress on Climate Action Makes Urgent Transformation Only Option
(2022-10)As climate impacts intensify, the Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the world is still falling short of the Paris climate goals, with no ... -
Establishing China's Green Financial System: Progress Report 2017 - Summary
(2017)The report finds that China – which put green finance on the G20 agenda during its 2016 presidency – is following through on its political commitment to boost the financing required to do this. The report looks particularly ... -
Establishing China’s Green Financial System: Summary Report of the Green Finance Task Force
(2015)In the context of growing environmental challenges, China needs to urgently transition toward a green and sustainable growth model. It is estimated that an annual investment of at least 2 trillion yuan (US$320 billion) is ... -
Executive Summary - Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water - As fires and floods hit the poor hardest, it is time for the world to step up adaptation actions
(2024-11)The Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) series provides an annual assessment on progress in adaptation planning, implementation and finance to inform key processes, notably under the UNFCCC. In line with this, the AGR 2024 continues ... -
Executive Summary - Chemicals and Waste Issues of Concern: A Summary Analysis of Stakeholders’ Views on Priorities for Further Work and Potential Further International Action
(2024-10)In 2020, UNEP published an Assessment Report on 19 chemicals and waste issues of concern which pose risks to human health and the environment. The Report concluded that urgent international concerted action is needed for ... -
Executive Summary - Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitments
(2024-10)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! is the 15th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide ... -
The Financial System We Need: From Momentum to Transformation - Highlights
(2016)This follow-up annual report reveals a doubling in policy actions over the past five years to align the global financial system with sustainable development. Policy and regulatory measures by finance ministries, central ...
