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Action plan for Regional Cooperation on Chemicals and Waste Management 2021-2024: Latin America and the Caribbean
(2020)This Action Plan intends to define the cooperation priorities for the period 2021-2024, including a Work Programme with specific activities to be implemented during 2021-2022. It was prepared using a similar methodology ... -
Action Plan for Regional Cooperation on Chemicals and Waste Management in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019-2020 Biennium -Partial Progress Report (September 2019)
(2019)https://www.unenvironment.org/events/un-environment-event/intersessional-meeting-forum-ministers-environment-latin-america-and -
Action Plan for the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2021)This document describes the Action Plan that Latin America and the Caribbean wishes to undertake for the next ten years to promote, improve, accelerate and scale-up ecosystem restoration in the region. It is a regional-level ... -
Actions on Air Quality: Executive Summary - Global
(2021)This global report provides a review of policy actions of Member States per the mandate provided by UNEA Resolution 3/8 on Preventing and reducing air pollution to improve air quality globally. It builds on the United ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2020 - Executive Summary
(2021)In the lead-up to the Global Stocktake in 2023, the AGR aims to address three important questions: What are we doing today to adapt? To what extent are we currently reducing climate risks? To what extent will our adaptation ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2023 - Key Messages
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Addressing Single-use Plastic Products Pollution Using a Life Cycle Approach: Summary for Decision-Makers
(2021)In response to the request by Member States at the Fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly in March 20191 , the report “ Addressing Single-Use Plastic Products Pollution using a Life Cycle Approach” describes: a) ... -
Aligning Colombia’s Financial System with Sustainable Development: Current Practice and Future Potential to Mobilize Investment for the Green Economy [Executive Summary]
(2015)This document has been commissioned by the IFC and the UNEP Inquiry to explore the state of green finance in Colombia within the wider economic and financial sector context, and at the same time, to identify challenges and ... -
Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways to Inclusive Green Recovery Spending - Summary for Policymakers
(2021)This report presents early data outputs from the Observatory to understand COVID-19 fiscal spending priorities in 2020 and which environmentally and economically desirable policies are facing underinvestment. It explores ... -
Assessing Low-Carbon Livestock Technologies in Costa Rica: Business Case Analysis of Low-Carbon Livestock Production - Executive Summary
(2020)This summary presents the results of an analysis undertaken to model and assess the viability of sustainable practices for the livestock sector outlined in Costa Rica´s Low Carbon Livestock Strategy and NAMA. -
An Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues Posing Risks to Human Health and the Environment - Executive Summary September 2020
(2021-03)This report responds to Resolution 4/8 by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and aims to inform the international community about the current situation of specific issues of concern, based on a review of evidence ... -
Avancer grâce aux technologies pour l’eco-innovation - Résumé
(2017)Executive summary of the report 'Moving Ahead with Technology for Eco-innovation': As part of the Eco-innovation project, this report aims to inform about technological aspects of eco-innovation emphasizing the role of ... -
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 ... -
A Case of Benign Neglect: Knowledge Gaps About Sustainability in Pastoralism and Rangelands - Executive Summary
(2019)Pastoralism is practiced by millions of people worldwide. It has roots in every part of the world and back thousands of years to the beginning of agriculture. But while pastoral societies have existed for millennia, we ... -
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, ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Coastal Ecosystem Based Adaptation - Briefing Note 9
(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. It uses biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt ... -
Cold Chain Technology Brief: Vaccines
(2021)This note provides an overview of the vaccine cold chain in general and COVID-19 in particular, its requirements and challenges. First, the effects of temperature on these vaccines, old and new, and their storage and ...
