Non-technical Handbooks, Guidelines, Manuals, Toolkits
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The Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook - Executive Summary
(2023)The Playbook is written for those communicating directly with individual consumer audiences about the fashion sector. This incorporates a wide range of roles and practitioners, from those in marketing, branding, advertising, ... -
The Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook - Shifting the narrative: A Guide to Aligning Fashion Communication to the 1.5-Degree Climate Target and Wider Sustainability Goals
(UNEP, 2023-06)The Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook (short: the Playbook) aims to provide a shared vision, principles and guidance on how to align consumer-facing communication across the global fashion industry with sustainability ... -
Guide on Ambient Air Quality Legislation - Air Pollution Series
(2023-05)Embedding ambient air quality standards (AAQS) in legislation is an important foundation for effective national air quality governance. Legislation can establish institutional responsibility for air quality standards, set ... -
Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems: A Roadmap to Implementation for Financial Institutions and Policy Makers
(2023-04)Food systems play a central role in all societies and are fundamental to sustainable development. Sustainable food systems (SFS) are vital to addressing issues of food security, social equity, poverty alleviation and healthy ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Diving Deep: Finance, Ocean Pollution and Coastal Resilience
(2022-03)The Principles provide a framework to inform financial decisions relating to the sustain- able blue economy. If widely adopted, the Principles can help to transform how the ocean’s assets are used and managed to secure ... -
2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement
(2017)The 2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement provides an up-to-date overview of the scale and type of sustainable procurement activities undertaken worldwide in the past three years. It addresses a longstanding ... -
Sustainable Public Procurement: A Global Review - Final Report
(UNEP, 2013)This report examines the state of sustainable public procurement policies and practices being undertaken by national governments worldwide in the last five years. The research included a comprehensive literature and desktop ...