Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies: Recent submissions
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STEP UP! A Joint Commitment by Heads of United Nations Entities to Promote the Right of Children, Youth and Future Generations to a Healthy Environment and their Meaningful Participation in Decision-making at all Levels, in Relation to Climate Action and Climate Justice
(2021-06)UNEP in collaboration with relevant UN entities under the Secretary-General’s Call to Action for Human Rights has developed the Joint Commitment by Heads of United Nations Entities. It demonstrates UN entities’ commitment ... -
Air Quality in Bishkek – Assessment of Emission Sources and Road Map for Supporting Air Quality Management: Key Messages
(2022-10)This study is the first comprehensive analysis of key emission sources and their impact on ground-level air pollution concentrations in Bishkek, thus providing decision-makers for the first time with scientific evidence ... -
WESR Strategy and Conceptual Approach
(2022-03)This strategy and conceptual approach outline how UNEP will enhance the development of the World Environment Situation Room (WESR), headquartered in Nairobi, as a user-centric, demand-driven platform designed to meet the ... -
The World Environment Situation Room (WESR): A Federated Data System to support the SDGs and post- UNEP@50 Agenda
(2022-12)This strategy and conceptual approach outline how UNEP will enhance the development of the World Environment Situation Room (WESR), headquartered in Nairobi, as a usercentric, demand-driven platform designed to meet the ... -
Poverty-Environment Action's Integrated Approach - Poverty-Environment Action Policy Brief
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-08)This policy brief highlights key lessons from Poverty-Environment Initiative/Poverty-Environment Action experience, notably on: * The constraints imposed by fragmented and outdated institutional structures and information ... -
Plastics, Human Rights, and Business Responsibilities - An Issue Brief
(2022-08)A human rights-based approach informed by international human rights law to prevent and manage plastic pollution at each stage of the plastics lifecycle can build the capacity of those with the power to act responsibly in ... -
State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in Bangladesh - Brief for Policy Makers
(2022-03)This summary is based on the assessment report for Bangladesh and presents the essential findings and recommendations for policy actors to promote gender equality in climate action. -
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 ... -
Executive Summary - 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2022-11)Decarbonizing the buildings sector by 2050 is critical to delivering these emission cuts – and to addressing the wider triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. ... -
Key Messages - Adaptation Gap Report 2022
(2022-11)1. Climate risks are rising as global warming accelerates. Both strong mitigation and adaptation are key to help vulnerable countries and communities cope with impacts of climate change; 2. More than eight out of ten ... -
Sustainable Fashion: Communication Strategy 2021 - 2024
(2022-10)The fashion industry is one of the largest contributors to the climate and ecological crisis. It is nature intensive, reliant on fossil fuels, polluting throughout its value chain and wasteful to the extreme. It is also ... -
Plastic Material Flow and Value Chain Analysis (Thailand)
(2022-08)This report was developed as part of the SEA circular project – Reducing marine litter by addressing the management of the plastic value chain in South-East Asia – implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme ... -
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 ... -
Executive Summary - An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2022 Report
(2022-10)Cutting methane emissions is the fastest way to tackle climate change in the short-term, as it remains in the atmosphere for far fewer years than carbon dioxide. It is for this reason that many nations have joined a global ... -
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. -
Nature-based Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Scaling Up - Summary
(2022-10)This document summarises a paper produced by UNEP synthesising the current state of knowledge and key actions to translate Nature-based Solutions (NbS) commitments into action. The full report, Nature-based Solutions: ... -
Tasks and Responsibilities of Assessment Report Co-chairs and Vice-chairs
(2022-10)Assessment report co-chairs and vice-chairs are responsible for ensuring that an assessment report is completed to the highest scientific standard. The names of all assessment report co-chairs and vice-chairs will be ... -
Information Note on Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on Genetic Resources - Prepared by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the Resumed eighteenth session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) (12-16 September 2022, Dakar, Senegal
(2022-09)In recent years, DNA sequencing technologies have become faster, cheaper and more accurate. Digital sequence information, or DSI, on genetic resources is used in a range of activities commercial and non-commercial such as ...
