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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 ... -
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Technology and Sustainability: Changing Our Perspective - UNEP Perspectives No. 13
(2014)From the evidence of our senses to the evidence provided by our science, we know our current global society is unsustainable. We also know that technology is at least partly responsible for our predicament, just as it will ... -
The Future of the Aral Sea Lies in Transboundary Co-operation - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - January 2014
(2014)Diversion of water sources has caused the Aral Sea in Central Asia to decline significantly over the past five decades. It has broken into several smaller seas, leaving behind a vast desert and a multitude of environmental, ... -
The Future of the Aral Sea Lies in Transboundary Cooperation - WMO Bulletin;Based on the UNEP Global Environment Alert Service (GEAS) bulletin January 2014
(World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2014)Diversion of water sources has caused the Aral Sea in Central Asia to decline significantly over the past five decades. It has broken into several smaller seas, leaving behind a vast desert and a multitude of environmental, ... -
The non-reporting report
(UNEP, 1998)The goal of this publication is to promote reporting by exploring why some companies produce corporate environmental reports while others choose not to, which major companies are still not reporting? What barriers to ... -
The partnership for action on green economy newsletter
(2016)The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) seeks to put sustainability at the heart of economic policy and practice.The Partnership supports nations and regions in reframing economic policies and practices around ... -
The partnership for action on green economy newsletter
(2016)The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) seeks to put sustainability at the heart of economic policy and practice.The Partnership supports nations and regions in reframing economic policies and practices around ... -
Tourism Expansion: Increasing Threats, or Conservation Opportunities? - Environment Alert Bulletin 6
(2005-04)Tourism generates 11% of global GDP, employs 200 million people but produces 4.8 million tones of waste yearly and consumes as much energy as a country the size and development level of Japan. The number of tourists is ...
