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Pakistan's Flood of the Century is a Global Disaster - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) November 2010
(2010-11)Northwestern Pakistan experienced its worst flooding in a century in late-July and early-August 2010. Unusually heavy monsoon rains led the Indus River to inundate areas far beyond its banks affecting the densely populated ... -
Pastoralist Participation and Networking in Policy Dialogue - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 18
(2015-11)This article analyses the historical challenges to pastoralist participation in policy dialogues, before highlighting the benefits that pastoralist participation creates, not only for their own livelihoods, but also to ... -
Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties for Rio+20 - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 3
(2012)The objective of initiating the Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties is to assist civil society actors to get organized, to generate a collective vision representative of the global people’s aspirations and wellbeing, and to ... -
Plant Growth Declined Over the Past Decade - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) September 2010
(2010-09)Calculating Net Primary Production (NPP) is the first step in quantifying the amount of carbon plants fix from the atmosphere and accumulate as biomass. NPP is an important component of the global carbon cycle, but it is ... -
Reflection from Copenhagen & Values, Culture and Spirituality - Faith for Earth Newsletter 30 May 2022
(2022-05-30)Reflecting on UNEP Faith for Earth work in Columbia during the 'Heavenly Days' Celebration in Copenhagen, Denmark; UN Decade Consultation on the River Yamuna; and Climate-Responsible Finance, ways to take action. -
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Rio+20: A new beginning - UNEP Perspectives No. 8
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2012)This paper reviews the key outcomes from Rio+20 both the positive and the negative ones. It will also look to the future and the process that has come out of Rio+20 and its possible impact on the Beyond 2015 process. -
The Rush for Land and Its Potential Environmental Consequence - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) July 2011
(2011-07)To feed a global population of 9.3 billion by 2050 (2.4 billion more than today, UNPD 2011) FAO estimates that global food demand will increase by 70 per cent (FAO 2009). Net investment in agriculture needs to exceed US$83 ... -
Saving the Great Migrations: Declining Wildebeest in East Africa?: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - December 2013
(2013)This issue is about the great migrations of wildebeest in East Africa. -
SDG 11 Issue Brief: Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable
(2018)Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) – making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable highlights the important role cities play in the global political agenda. -
SDG 12 Issue Brief: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns
(2018)Sustainable Development Goal 12 – ensuring sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns promotes increased human well-being while decoupling economic growth from resource use and environmental degradation. -
SDG 15 Issue Brief: Promoting the Sustainability of Terrestrial Ecosystems and Halting Desertification, Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss
(2018)Sustainable Development Goal 15 – Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. -
SDG 6 Issue Brief: Ensuring Availability and Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for All
(2018)Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all – con rms the importance of water and sanitation in the global political agenda. Building on the ... -
SDG 7 Issue Brief: Ensuring Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable and Modern Energy for All
(2018)Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) – ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all – with its targets on universal access, energy efficiency and renewable energy, will open a ... -
Sea-level Rise in the Indian Ocean Differs by Region and Low-lying Pacific Reef Islands can Grow or Shrink in Size Depending on Conditions - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) December 2010
(2010-12)Over the past few decades, sea levels worldwide have risen because of three primary phenomena related to climate change: the expansion of warming oceans, the input of fresh water from melting ice sheets and the loss of ice ... -
Solutions to Social and Environmental Impacts of Disposable Diaper Waste in Vanuatu - Perspectives Issue No. 43
(2023-04)This is the second Perspective issue that looks at beating plastic pollution. Engineers Without Borders Australia sought to provide a sustainable and easy alternative to disposal diaper waste in Vanuatu. The solution ... -
A Spotlight on Research & Education - Faith for Earth Newsletter 31 March 2022
(2022-03)This newsletter has a special emphasis on research and education: From a sustainable development point of view, education is essential to promoting development of the knowledge, skills, understanding, values, and actions ... -
Strengthening UNEP’s Legitimacy: Towards Greater Stakeholder Engagement - UNEP Perspectives No. 11
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2014)UNEP´s mandate in the international arena has been enlarged by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and its legitimacy increased through the establishment of a new Universal Membership body, the United Nations ... -
Sustainable consumption and production and the SDGs : UNEP Post 2015 Note 2
(2014)Achieving sustainable consumption and production patterns is not just an environmental issue -
Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda: Why Environmental Sustainability and Gender Equality are so important to Reducing Poverty and Inequalities - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 17
(2015)On September 25th 2015, the Heads of States of the UN’s 193 member states adopted the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and its 17 “Sustainable Development Goals. This is the result of two policy processes that ...
