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    • Building Back Greener in the Post-COVID-19 Era - Perspective Issue 42 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2023-01)
      In this paper, the Green Economy Coalition pulls together recommendations and findings from our green recovery work during COVID and examines what insights from around the world can be applied to the current multiple ...
    • Green Economy: The New Big Deal - Our Planet February 2009 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2009)
      Globalisation does not just spread economic ups — and the current deep downs — rapidly across the globe. It can do the same for compelling and transformational ideas. As ministers gather in Nairobi for the Governing Council, ...
    • Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 1 - Green Cities 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2005)
      The battles to eradicate poverty and deliver the Millennium Development Goals will be won or lost by whether we can manage the urban environment effectively and creatively. If we can – as the examples of Dar es Salaam and ...
    • Our Planet: Building Inclusive Green Economies - South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2013-09)
      UNEP is proud to be hosting the United Nation’s Global South-South Development Expo 2013 at its headquarters in Kenya — the first time in the history of this event that it is taking place in the developing world. The ...
    • Our Planet: Green Economy - Making it Work 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2010-02)
      Realizing national Green Economies will be a key cornerstone of UNEP’s work over the coming year as countries, companies and communities wrestle with the multiple challenges but also multiple opportunities presented in the ...
    • Our Planet: Greening Business 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2014-04)
      Greening business – and the business of greening – is essential to the global transformation to an inclusive, resource efficient and low-carbon economy. There has been significant progress in the last two decades. Many ...
    • Our Planet: Inclusive Green Economy - Building Bridges to a Sustainable Future 

      Unite Nations Environment Programme (2016-03)
      The Partnership for Action on Green Economy and related initiatives currently contribute to the shift of national economic structures in over 22 countries towards clean technologies, resource-efficient infrastructure, green ...
    • Our Planet: Rio+20 - Celebrating 40 Years of UNEP 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2012-02)
      As Environment Ministers gather in Nairobi for their annual meeting of the UNEP Governing Council in February 2012, all eyes are on the follow-up to the Earth Summit of 1992, or Rio+20. This meeting, taking place in June, ...
    • Our Planet: RIO+20 - From Outcome to Implementation 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2013-02)
      The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, known as “Rio+20”, highlighted the international community’s commitment to foster sustainable development. Member States and civil society worked actively in preparing and ...
    • Our Planet: Small Island Developing States 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2014-09)
      This year, 2014, was chosen as the International Year of Small Island Developing States in recognition of the need to see the escalating environmental crises facing these countries as a global challenge. How small island ...
    • Our Planet: The First United Nations Environment Assembly 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2014-06)
      The first ever United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is the core theme of this issue of Our Planet. Sustainable Development Goals, the need to decouple economic growth from natural resource depletion and the way forward ...
    • Our Planet: The Future is Priceless - Put a Price on Carbon 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2013-12)
      This issue focuses on the range of climate change issues to be discussed at the COP19 in Warsaw. The topics discussed range from the need for a new agreement on combating climate change to improving energy efficient and ...
    • UN Environment Africa Office Newsletter - Jan-Feb 2017 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2017-03)
    • UN Environment Africa Office Newsletter: 2016 Highlights 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2016-12)
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