UNEP Publications Pre-2023: Recent submissions
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The Environmental Impact of the Conflict in Ukraine: A Preliminary Review
(2022-10)UNEP is mandated to assist countries, upon request, with pollution mitigation and control in areas affected by armed conflict or terrorism. Responding to a request by the Government of Ukraine, this report was drafted as ... -
Gender-Responsive Renewable Energy Programmes: A Review of Existing Initiatives on Women's Leadership in Renewable Energy
(2022-09)This report takes stock of the ongoing experiences related to gender-responsive renewable energy programmes as well as the consolidated wealth of knowledge and lessons learned in this field. The purpose of this review is ... -
Europe’s Environment: The Seventh Pan-European Environmental Assessment
(2022-10)The seventh pan-European environmental assessment gives an insight into the progress achieved in environmental protection, a cornerstone of life and human health, but also highlights the numerous challenges that need to ... -
Renewable Energy and Women Entrepreneurship Programmes: A Guidebook in Design and Implementation
(2022-09)This guidebook will attempt to highlight the essential factors that need to be incorporated in setting up a women’s renewable energy-based enterprise in rural areas. This includes two different types of RE enterprises: RE ... -
Advancing Delivery on Decarbonisation Targets: The Second Progress report of the Net-zero Asset Owner Alliance
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-09)The Alliance’s activities are characterised by a combination of ambition, leadership, and an abiding commitment to collaboration. As this report reveals, recent years have witnessed a growing number of asset owners embrace ... -
International Environmental Technology Centre - Annual Report 2021
(2022-09)UNEP IETC's Annual report 2021 -
Charcoal as a Global Commodity: Is it Sustainable? - Foresight Brief No. 030 August 2022
(2022-08)Charcoal is typically made from trees, and is perceived to be a renewable resource, and is used in both low and middle-income countries as well as high-income countries. There is a difference, however, between “renewable” ... -
Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment of Groundwater - Technical Guidance Document
(2022-07)This document is part of a series of guidebooks that address various aspects of monitoring and assessment of freshwater. It describes the main features of groundwater that govern its quantity, availability and chemical ... -
Perceptions on Plastic Waste: Insights, Interventions and Incentives to Action from Businesses and Consumers in South-East Asia
(2021-12)This report outlines the findings from surveys targeting consumers and food and beverage businesses, conducted from January to April 2020 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Two thousand consumers ... -
Harnessing Nature to Build Climate Resilience: Scaling Up the Use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation
(2022-07)Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) has the potential to significantly enhance the resilience of society to climate change and could be a key part of national and global adaptation efforts. However, despite growing interest ... -
Environmental Courts and Tribunals – 2021: A Guide for Policy Makers
(2022-07)This UNEP 2021 ECT Guide is designed to provide an overview for policymakers, judges, academics, and stakeholders who are interested in improving the adjudication of environmental disputes. It identifies features of ECTs, ... -
Harmful Marine Extractives: Understanding the Risks & Impacts of Financing Non-renewable Extractive Industries - Offshore Oil & Gas
(2022-05)This briefing paper discusses the potential risks associated with the exploration and production of offshore petroleum resources (oil and gas), and how financial institutions should engage with and respond to this sector. ... -
Harmful Marine Extractives: Understanding the Risks & Impacts of Financing Non-renewable Extractive Industries - Dredging & Marine Aggregate Extraction
(2022-05)This briefing discusses the potential risks associated with dredging and the extraction of marine aggregates, and how financial institutions should engage with and respond to this sector. The briefing paper aims to provide ... -
Harmful Marine Extractives: Understanding the Risks & Impacts of Financing Non-renewable Extractive Industries - Deep-Sea Mining
(2022-05)This briefing paper discusses the potential risks associated with plans to mine the deep seabed of minerals, and how financial institutions should respond to the deep-sea mining sector. The briefing paper aims to provide ... -
Review of Current Knowledge and Data on Marine Litter in Asia
(2022-06)This study aims to provide a science-based review of the current knowledge and data available on marine litter in the coastal countries of South Asia, North East Asia and South-East Asia. A qualitative summary of and ... -
Single-Use Face Masks and their Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
(2022-06)This study by UNEP and the Life Cycle Initiative, reviews five scientific Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) on face-masks to draw conclusions on which among the available alternatives, single-use or reusable, have the lowest ... -
Walking and Cycling in Africa: Evidence and Good Practice to Inspire Action
(2022-06)This report is a first attempt at gathering, analyzing and presenting data to demonstrate the everyday reality for the one billion people in Africa who walk and cycle every day. It baselines conditions in all 54 African ... -
Enabling Sustainable Lifestyles in a Climate Emergency
(2022-05)These guidelines for policy makers apply a lifestyles perspective to the sustainability challenge, using climate change as a focal point and providing policy direction to how the remaining carbon budget can be fairly ... -
International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure: Integrated, Systems-level Approaches for Policymakers - Second Edition
(2022-04)The International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure are intended to provide guidance for global use on the integration of sustainability throughout the entire infrastructure life cycle, with the focus ... -
A Scientific Assessment of the Third Pole Environment
(2022-04)This report has been developed to consider the complexities of environmental changes and their impacts. It has been built on the principals of the IPCC and IPBES. This assessment report has used climate, water body, ecosystem ...
