Technical Guidelines or Manuals: Recent submissions
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For all life on Earth: Actions to protect, restore and sustainably use nature. A practical guide in support of the Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)Our world faces environmental crises that threaten to upend life as we know it. Earth is degraded, deforested and warming dangerously. Nature and the myriad of benefits that it provides to people is declining all around ... -
Applying TEEB for Agriculture and Food to Inform Food System Policy: Modeling Guidance and Case Studies
(2024-09)This guide is a ‘how-to’ guide and proof of concept, i.e., (i) how to formulate the policy scenarios that TEEB Agrifood is applied to, (ii) what data, methods and disciplinary expertise are required, (iii) what is the ... -
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Handbook on indicator 17.14.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals
(2024-07)The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, is a plan of action for people, the planet and prosperity, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; see ... -
Handbook for the Fifth Montevideo Programme on the Progressive Development and Implementation of Environmental Law
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-05)The Montevideo Programme V secretariat has developed this digital handbook that highlights the Programme’s objectives, activities and outcomes in order to raise awareness and enhance understanding of the Programme by ... -
Playing for the Planet Annual Impact Report 2023
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-03)The Playing for the Planet Alliance, facilitated by UNEP, has continued to demonstrate its ability to drive home the importance of tackling the environmental crises head on amongst members, the wider games industry, and ... -
Technical Guidelines - Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future in Residential Construction Sector in Indonesia
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)This study is based on the workshop series conducted in December 2022 (online) and March 2023 (offline in Jakarta) involving stakeholders from the public sector, business, industry association, academia, and non-government ... -
Technical Guidelines - Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future in Construction Sector in Mexico
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)The efficiency of the management of resources in attendance to climate change is a key issue for the articulation of climate agendas, sustainable production and consumption, industrial environmental regulation and initiatives ... -
Technical Guidelines - Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future in Residential Construction Sector in Argentina
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)In order to enhance the national relevance and policy uptake of its global analysis, the IRP has endeavoured to contextualise the key results and messages of the global RECC report for the construction sector in Argentina. ... -
Freshwater Quality Monitoring with Biota - Technical Guidance Document
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)This technical guidance document is intended for scientists and practitioners who work with freshwaters in the field and in the laboratory but who do not have specialist knowledge of ecology and the use of biota for water ... -
The Parliamentarian’s guide to protecting the Mediterranean Sea and coast: A handbook for members of parliaments serving in the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-01)Members of parliaments play a pivotal role in transposing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) into enforceable national law. The Barcelona Convention and its Protocols are a case in point: how can a newly elected ... -
Specialized Manual on Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education and Learning: Advancing Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education and Learning in All Segments of Society
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)This manual aims to facilitate and stimulate action on green and sustainable chemistry learning and education throughout society, empowering stakeholders to advance UNEP’s 10 Objectives and Guiding Considerations for Green ... -
A guide to implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action at national level
(World Health Organization, 2023-12)The guide aims to provide countries with practical guidance on how to implement the One Health approach through the adoption and adaptation of the implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH JPA), aligning with ... -
Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan for the Disposal of Polycholorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Southern Africa - Disposal of PCB oils contained in transformers and disposal of capacitors containing PCBs in Southern Africa (GEF Project 5532)
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)The GEF project entitled “Disposal of PCB oils contained in transformers and disposal of capacitors containing PCBs in Southern Africa” aims to reduce environmental and human health risks from PCB releases in 12 countries: ... -
Introduction to Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Assessment - Technical Guidance Document
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)This technical guidance document is intended as a basic introduction to water quality monitoring and to guide readers to the most relevant detailed guidebooks in this series. It is intended for scientists and technicians ... -
Guidelines on Harmonized System Customs Codes and National Statistical Codes for Energy-Efficient Lighting
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) codes are a very effective means for monitoring trade statistics of commodities associated with energy efficient lighting regulations in a country and provide a ... -
Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment in Rivers, Lakes and Reservoirs - Technical Guidance Document
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-07)This technical guidance provides an introduction to the key aspects of these waterbodies that can influence the design, development and implementation of a monitoring network, and the interpretation of the monitoring results ... -
Guidelines on Alternatives to Highly Hazardous Pesticides
(2023-07)This document is designed to: (a) Identify the roles of the different stakeholders in the process of replacing HHPs and suggest how they can support one another in order to maintain agricultural productivity while protecting ... -
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Rethinking Our Food Systems: A Guide for Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
(UNEP, FAO and UNDP, 2023-06)Food systems involve complex challenges, which call for a systemic, multi-level and multi-stakeholder participatory approach for addressing interrelated issues across economic, social and environmental dimensions: the ... -
Quality Assurance for Freshwater Quality Monitoring - Technical Guidance Document
(2023-06)This technical guidance document is intended for scientists and practitioners who work with freshwaters in the field and in the laboratory but who do not have specialist knowledge of quality assurance. It provides an ...
