UNEP Publications Pre-2023
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TEEB for Agriculture & Food: Scientific and Economic Foundations Report
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018-06)The TEEBAgriFood ‘Scientific and Economic Foundations’ report addresses the core theoretical issues and controversies underpinning the evaluation of the nexus between the agri-food sector, biodiversity and ecosystem services ... -
Junior Professional Officer (Associate Programme Management Officer) [Job Vacancy Announcement] - United Nations Environment Programme
(2023-11)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable ... -
Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative - Apex Report
(2023)Mayors of cities and towns along the Mississippi River made a commitment to reduce plastic waste in the Mississippi River Valley in September 2018. Under the leadership of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative ... -
One Health and the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework - Guidance for United Nations Country Teams 2023
(2023-10)In response to these multidimensional health challenges, the Quadripartite (FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH1) developed a shared vision for the transformations required to prevent and mitigate the impact of current and future ... -
Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions 2022 [with appendices]
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-12)NbS are increasingly seen as a way to meet the objectives of several global agreements and can be central to a just transition – if the right mix of just transition policies are implemented. But there is currently no ... -
World Atlas of Desertification
(Edward Arnold, 1992)This atlas represents the current stage of our understanding of desertification, its extent and its possible solutions. One of the clearest ways to depict a global problem is to show it in an atlas. If it is true that one ... -
Chapter 5: Marine-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)SDG 14 is the dedicated goal towards the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources. This goal includes 10 targets and 10 indicators related directly to marine-related ecosystems. Yet only ... -
Chapter 4: Freshwater-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)Many relationships were identified as significant for freshwater-related ecosystems. This chapter explores the significance of such relationships and whether such relationships are confirmed by scientific evidence. -
Chapter 3: Methodology - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)While the Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs (2021) report focused on understanding the interlinkages through a statistical correlation analysis, the proposed methodology herein will further develop the statistical ... -
Chapter 2: The state of the environment - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)This chapter aims to showcase the progress in data availability in relation to specified SDG indicators. The purpose is not to explain why indicators’ trends are increasing or decreasing. The change in category (that is, ... -
Chapter 1: Background - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)The Measuring Progress series explores the relationship between environmental indicators and economic or social indicators. In this report, data availability for one thematic area was considered to further explore possible ... -
Key Messages - Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening Environmental Action in the One Health Response to Antimicrobial Resistance
(2023-02)This document addresses the following topics: What are antimicrobials? What is antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? Impact of AMR. AMR and the environment. Climate change and AMR. Biodiversity loss and AMR. Pollution and AMR. ... -
Seven Lessons on Using Ecosystem Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation - Policy Brief
(2022-12)The specific context for this paper is provided by two current initiatives: the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UN Decade), which was launched in 2021, and the Global EbA Fund, which is expected to operate until 2027. ... -
Good Practices on Vulnerable Ecosystem Restoration in China
(2022-12)This report presents ten restoration good case studies from key vulnerable ecosystems in China. It is based on decades of restoration practices in major national restoration programmes, and science-based experiments from ... -
Single-use Supermarket Food Packaging and its Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
(2022-12)Food packaging’s ever-increasing reliance on single-use plastic formats along with the persistence of plastics in the environment, adds to the long-reaching – and as yet poorly characterized – impacts of plastic pollution ... -
End Plastic Pollution: A Knowledge Compendium for Less Plastic Waste in South-East Asia
(2022-12)This knowledge compendium has been developed to serve as a useful reference compiling all the publications that SEA circular and its partners have released as at December 2021. The compendium supports the project’s objective ... -
Strengthening the Environmental Dimension of the Voluntary National Reviews in Asia-Pacific: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward
(2022-12)This report presents findings from a project jointly implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). The project reviewed 50 Voluntary National ... -
Appendices. Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions - A Biennial Global Report on Work and Employment in the Emerging Nature Conservation and Restoration Economy
(2022-12)NbS are increasingly seen as a way to meet the objectives of several global agreements and can be central to a just transition – if the right mix of just transition policies are implemented. But there is currently no ... -
Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions 2022
(2022-12)NbS are increasingly seen as a way to meet the objectives of several global agreements and can be central to a just transition – if the right mix of just transition policies are implemented. But there is currently no ... -
Mapping Environmental Risks and Socio-Economic Benefits of Planned Transport Infrastructure: A Global Picture
(2022-12)Improving road and rail networks can have social and economic benefits but also significant environmental consequences on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Weighing the ecological consequences of building and operating ...