UNEP Publications Pre-2023: Recent submissions
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Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals
(2018-10)This brochure introduces the joint UNDP—UNEP Poverty-Environment Action (2018-2022) project launched on 1 September 2018. Poverty-Environment Action builds on the experience and lessons learned of UNDP—UNEP Poverty-Environment ... -
Financing the Blue Economy: Investments in Sustainable Blue Small–Medium Enterprises and Projects in Asia and the Pacific
(2022-06)This joint report highlights opportunities for mobilizing investment for a sustainable blue economy in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs' limited access to capital makes ... -
Sustainable Food Cold Chains: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward
(United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2022-11)This report highlights the complexity of food cold chain development globally and explores how it can evolve to become more sustainable. The main objectives of the analysis are to provide an overview of the status, drivers ... -
Global Peatlands Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands - Evidence for Action toward the Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainable Management of Peatlands - Summary for Policy Makers
(2022-11) This is the Summary for Policy Makers of the Global Peatlands Assessment (GPA), written to assist decision-makers in advancing sustainable peatland management and encouraging urgent action for their conservation and ... -
Global Peatlands Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands - Evidence for Action toward the Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainable Management of Peatlands
(2022-11)The goal of this assessment is to inform and inspire action in policy, research and practice that can help to protect, restore and sustainably manage peatlands now and long into the future. It provides a global overview ... -
Study on Benefits of Environment-Friendly Rubber Plantation - Policy Brief
(2022-11)This policy brief analyzes the economic and environmental benefits of environment-friendly rubber forest, and environment-friendly transformation by means of natural restoration of pure rubber forest and interplanting ... -
Net Zero Carbon Scenarios for the Energy Sector in West Asia
(2022-11)Achieving the net-zero emissions target as a global pathway entails a complete decarbonization of the energy sector by the middle of the century, implying that fossil fuels will play a limited role in future. West Asian ... -
2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2022-11)Decarbonizing the buildings sector by 2050 is critical to delivering these emission cuts – and to addressing the wider triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. ... -
Making Good on the Glasgow Climate Pact: A Call to Action to Achieve One Gigaton of Emissions Reductions from Forests by 2025
(2022-11)The Glasgow commitments build upon numerous existing international initiatives on nature and climate. The Bonn Challenge and the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which aim to accelerate action for restoration ... -
Mercury from Oil and Gas - UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Study Report
(2022-11)The report, aims to present a compilation of available knowledge on the life cycle of mercury in crude oil and natural gas, to better understand the behaviour and emission and release pathways of mercury, particularly ... -
Global Methane Assessment: 2030 Baseline Report
(2022-11)This report is a product of the Global Methane Assessment (GMA) that details projections of anthropogenic methane emissions through 2030 under various baseline scenarios and assesses the climate benefits of achieving the ... -
Online Annexes – Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk
(2022-11)These annexes include: Annex 2.A: Data sources used to assess the status of national adaptation planning worldwide and the presence of quantified targets; Annex 2.B: Examples of quantified targets; Annex 2.C: Inclusiveness; ... -
Sports for Nature: Setting a Baseline – Handbook
(2022-11)The handbook demonstrates how sport has the potential to be a critical partner for change. It highlights the urgency and dependency of sport on nature, demonstrating the opportunities already underway – with guidance and ... -
Gender Mainstreaming in the Montreal Protocol: Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2022-11)Taking into account that women and girls constitute half of the world’s population and, therefore, represent half of the potential and innovation necessary to face the “triple planetary crisis” — climate change, nature and ... -
Air Quality in Bishkek: Assessment of Emission Sources and Road map for Supporting Air Quality Management
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-10)This report focuses on presenting the scientific background of air quality in Bishkek based on data analysis of available air quality monitoring data from Bishkek, and using this evidence base, presents a roadmap including ... -
Executive Summary — Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk
(2022-11)The report finds that global efforts in adaptation planning, financing and implementation are increasing incrementally. However, they are not keeping pace with increasing climate risks. Yes, over 80 per cent of countries ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow - Climate Adaptation Failure Puts World at Risk
(2022-11)Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity, The international community must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a transformation of energy, industry, transport, food systems, financial systems ... -
Global Goal on Adaptation - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #6
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-11)Successful adaptation results in increased resilience and adaptive capacity and reduced vulnerability in the context of a changing climate. Article 7.1 of the Paris Agreement established a Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) ... -
Executive Summary — Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(2022-10)This thirteenth edition of the Emissions Gap Report is testimony to inadequate action on the global climate crisis, and is a call for the rapid transformation of societies. Since the twenty-sixth United Nations Climate ... -
Is Natural Gas a Good Investment for Latin America and the Caribbean? From Economic to Employment and Climate Impacts of the Power Sector
(2022-10)This report reveals that an expansion of renewable energy in the power sector in Latin America and the Caribbean instead of continuing a fossil fuel path, including natural gas, would be by far the best choice. The region ...
