UNEP Publications Pre-2023: Recent submissions
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Future Proofing Infrastructure to Address the Climate Biodiversity and Pollution Crises: GEO for Business Brief 5
(2021)Infrastructure is both impacted by and impacts the environment in various feedback loops. Between 1998 and 2017, climate-related disasters accounted for 91 per cent of all recorded disasters, with floods being 43 per cent ... -
Measuring the Performance of Green Economic Development in the Republic of Moldova: National Report based on the OECD set of Green Growth Indicators
(2017)The green growth concept has been promoted in the Republic of Moldova as a model of social and economic development for economic growth, improved human well-being and social equity. Its goal is to achieve a low-carbon, ... -
Global Environment Outlook for Cities – GEO for Cities: Towards Green and Just Cities
(2021-11)This second edition of GEO for Cities is an extension of the main GEO-6 report, presenting and explaining the findings of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) flagship environmental assessment in a way that ... -
Greening the Blue Report 2021: The UN System’s Environmental Footprint and Efforts to Reduce It
(2021)The Greening the Blue Report 2021 provides a snapshot of the UN system’s environmental impacts throughout 2020 and its activities to reduce them. The 2021 edition of the Report covers data for 2020 on environmental impacts, ... -
Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities
(2021)The Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities is undertaken within the framework of the UNEP Cool Coalition. The objective of the report is to present a comprehensive overview of sustainable urban cooling ... -
Chapter 7. Outlook on global progress - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter synthesizes findings from chapters 3 to 6 of this report, with the aim of providing an overview of the status of global progress on adaptation (section 7.1). It also offers an outlook for future developments ... -
Chapter 6. Emerging consequences of COVID-19 on adaptation planning and finance - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter aims to synthesize the literature that describes how COVID-19 has impacted country-level “adaptive capacity” (see the glossary for a definition and discussion below) and identifies emerging opportunities for ... -
Chapter 5. Global progress on adaptation implementation - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)The objective of this chapter is to provide a global assessment of the implementation of adaptation, with a particular focus on developing countries. It provides essential information that would not be apparent from solely ... -
Chapter 4. Global progress on adaptation finance - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter provides an update on the adaptation finance gap for developing countries (defined as the non-Annex I countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]), as reported in previous ... -
Chapter 3. Global progress on adaptation planning - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)Applying the same methodology as the AGR2020, this chapter looks at the overall number of national, subnational and sectoral adaptation strategies, plans and laws. Five criteria are used to shed light on the extent to which ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This year’s AGR updates and expands the analysis begun in the 2020 edition of the report by providing information of direct relevance to the UNFCCC Global Stocktake: ▶ Consolidated criteria for assessment of adaptation ... -
An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory - 2021 Report
(2021)Methane Matters - Curbing methane emissions from fossil fuels matters. And it matters under any plausible decarbonisation scenario. UNEP promotes a rapid transition away from fossil fuels but recognizes the climate importance ... -
Economics of Peatlands Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Management: A Policy Report for the Global Peatlands Initiative
(2021)This policy report examines the current status of peatlands globally, assesses the benefits and costs of peatlands, and identifies policies for peatlands conservation, restoration and sustainable management. This report ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021-10)Each year, the Emissions Gap Report provides an updated assessment of the gap between i) estimated future global GHG emissions if countries implement their climate mitigation pledges and ii) the global emission levels from ... -
From Pollution to Solution: A Global Assessment of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution - Synthesis
(2021)Key Findings: 1. Marine litter, including plastics and microplastics, has grown drastically and is projected to more than double by 2030. 2. Marine litter and plastics are a grave threat to all marine life and are influencing ... -
Drowning in Plastics: Marine Litter and Plastic Waste Vital Graphics
(2021)This publication aims to provide a complete overview of the global challenges related to marine litter and plastic waste through a combination of condensed descriptions of key thematic areas and graphic illustrations that ... -
From Pollution to Solution: A Global Assessment of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution
(2021)This assessment describes the far-reaching impacts of plastics across the planet and in our oceans. The assessment sets out to address four key questions to help guide future actions: • What can new research and evidence ... -
Responsible Banking: Building Foundations - The first collective progress report of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking signatories
(2021)The report provides an update of signatories’ progress in implementing the principles. Signatories’ progress is assessed according to their fulfilment of three key steps: 1. Analysis of their current impact on people and ... -
Principles and Policy Guidance on Children’s Rights to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment in the ASEAN Region
(2021)The global environmental crisis undermines the fundamental rights of every child in countless ways through the climate emergency, air pollution, lack of access to safe and sufficient water and the rapid decline of biodiversity. ... -
The Role of Business in Moving from Linear to Circular Economies - GEO for Business Brief No. 2
(2021)The analysis presented in this brief shows there is a need for businesses to act, rather than continuing to assume that old business models will remain profitable. Crucial to transforming the global economy towards full ...
