Manuals, Guides and Toolkits: Recent submissions
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Toolkit on Pro-Environmental Youth Engagement in Africa
(2023-12)The Toolkit on Pro-Environmental Youth Engagement was created by youth for youth living in Africa providing hands-on guidance on how to take sustainable action and engage in eco-friendly behavior on four different levels: ... -
Understanding Climate, Nature and Ocean Finance
(2023-11)The world faces the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. With a $700 billion biodiversity financing gap, as identified by the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework calls for ... -
Guidance Note for United Nations Resident Coordinators & Country Teams: Supporting Governments to better respect, promote and protect environmental human rights defenders
(2023-11)This guidance note is prepared as part of the Secretary- General’s Call to Action for Human Rights in order to increase support from the United Nations on the ground to Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs). It ... -
Economic Cost of Inaction Calculator
(2022-07)This Guidance document assists users in understanding and completing the ChemObs Economic Cost of Inaction Calculator. The ChemObs Economic Cost of Inaction Calculator is a decision-making tool to calculate the cost of ... -
ChemObs Economic Cost of Inaction Calculator
(2022-07)The ChemObs Economic Cost of Inaction Calculator (excel sheet) is a decision-making tool to calculate the cost of inaction on chemicals management, with resulting units in DALYs. The calculator uses existing environmental ... -
Calculator for the Estimation of Relative Risks and Vulnerabilities of Contaminated Sites - A User Manual
(2020-12)This Guidance document assists users in understanding and completing the Calculator for the estimations of relative risks and vulnerabilities of contaminated sites. The Calculator for the estimations of relative risks and ... -
ChemObs Risks and Vulnerabilities Calculator
(2020-12)The Calculator for the estimations of relative risks and vulnerabilities of contaminated sites is a is a decision-making tool to provide a relative risk assessment for different chemical pollutants, both at a point source ... -
Model Quality and Performance Guidelines for Off-Grid Refrigerating Appliances - Supporting Information Annex
(2023-11)Refrigerating appliances are among the most desirable but expensive appliances that small enterprises and households aspire to own once electricity becomes available and incomes rise beyond subsistence. While research ... -
Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans - Supporting Information Annex
(2023-11)Ceiling fans are a low-cost cooling option which enhance greater indoor comfort with a power consumption typically less than 90 watts compared to room AC systems which typically have a consumption of around 1500 watts. ... -
Strategic Guide on Sustainable Blue Economy for the Regional Seas Programme - [Advance]
(2023-08)This Guide on Blue Economy for the Regional Seas Programme is intended to be a steppingstone for the Regional Seas – with their diverse legal, institutional, and implementing set-up, their wide range of capacity and available ... -
UNEP Environmental Management System (EMS) Manual
(2023-08)As part of any EMS, it is necessary to produce a Manual. This UNEP EMS Manual will be used as a guideline to measure future improvements in all aspects of the EMS. The Manual also provides the framework for establishing ... -
Methodology Notes [Rules for the dataset used for the Second Global Report on the Environmental Rule of Law Report]
(2023)This document sets out the methodology for the Environmental Rule of Law questionnaire carried out as part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Second Global Report on the Environmental Rule of Law (EROL ... -
Guidelines on Reporting for the Special Programme
(2023-09)These Guidelines are intended to supplement the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Strategy and Action Plan endorsed by the Executive Board in October 2020, along with the accompanying Toolkit, in helping countries funded ... -
Sustainability Standards and Requirements for Agriculture - International Trade Considerations
(2023)“The purpose of this briefing is to provide a short and accessible introduction to the evolving landscape of sustainability requirements for agriculture, reflecting this in the context of international trade. In particular, ... -
Guide to Assessing the Costs of Inaction of Tackling Air Pollution
(2023-05)This document provides up-to-date guidance to ASEAN Member States on conducting and using an assessment of the costs of inaction of tackling air pollution based on rigorous scientific methods and best available data. Such ... -
[2023 World Ozone Day Letter to National Ozone Officers]
(2023-08)Letter to National Ozone Officers concerning activities in commemoration of World Ozone Day on 16 September 2023. -
Guidelines for Accelerating the Circular Economy Transition in Africa
(2023-01)This report provides the essential guidelines for advancing a circular economy in Africa. The non-prescriptive guidelines were informed by deep dives into the opportunities for a circular economy and the challenges and ... -
Guidance on the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools in the context of UNEP’s seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) - Draft
(2023-08)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands at the forefront of global efforts to confront an escalating Triple Planetary Crisis, including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. The vast scale and ... -
Cost-Effectiveness Payback Period Transformer Model for PCB Study
(2023-07)The model is an Excel spreadsheet developed in order to estimate the necessary investment and the benefits for upgrading the distribution and transmission transformers in service that may contain hazardous levels of PCBs ...
