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New Financial Mechanisms for Clean Energy Investments in Latin America
(2023-05)UNEP’s Finance Unit and Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean have commissioned this work to map out regional needs for clean energy investments in Latin America and demonstrate that through an innovative ... -
Seaweed Farming: Assessment on the Potential of Sustainable Upscaling for Climate, Communities and the Planet
(2023-06)This report collates and scrutinizes existing research on the quantifiable climate benefits, as well as the associated environmental and social risks and benefits, of global seaweed farming. The scope of the report includes ... -
Human Migration and Natural Resources: Global assessment of an adaptive complex system
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-06)The report uses a hybrid, interdisciplinary approach based on a range of methods and varied data sources, with a view to producing a significant and globally relevant assessment of the relationship between resource management ... -
Regional Seas Biodiversity: Harmonized Reporting Between Regional Seas Programmes National Reporting and the Convention on Biological Diversity National Reporting (NBSAP)
(2023-06)The overall objective of this report is to review national planning reporting mechanisms under the Regional Seas Conventions and Actions Plans (RSCAPs), select relevant case studies, and analyse possible harmonization ... -
Trends and Outlook of Natural Resource Use in West Asia
(2023-06)This piece of work is framed by the set of initiatives rolled out by the Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) in West Asia to enhance the knowledge and capacity of policymakers. It is the first ... -
Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-07)Climate litigation represents a frontier solution to change the dynamics of the fight against climate change. This Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review shows that people are increasingly turning to the ... -
Common Framework of Sustainable Finance Taxonomies for Latin America and the Caribbean
(2023-07)The Common Framework of Sustainable Finance Taxonomies for Latin American and the Caribbean is a guidance document that can serve as a voluntary reference to orient LAC member states that are in the process of or intend ... -
Results of the 2016-2019 WHO/UNEP Human Milk Survey on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-09)This report presents the findings of the UNEP/GEF projects on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in human milk as a core matrix under the Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) of the Stockholm Convention, conducted between 2016 ... -
Rapid Environmental Assessment of Kakhovka Dam Breach Ukraine, 2023
(2023-10)This report contains a preliminary analysis of the environmental impacts of the Kakhovka dam breach, which occurred in the early hours of 6 June 2023. It explores the environmental impacts of the breach through highlighting ... -
Strengthening transparency of non-state actors: How national experiences and new digital technologies can strengthen the Transparency efforts of non-state actors
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-10)The national plans of countries in a form of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the Paris Agreement form the foundation for reducing emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change. The credibility of ... -
Environmental Rule of Law: Tracking Progress and Charting Future Directions
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)This report is to support countries to promote and strengthen environmental rule of law. It responds to the need identified in the First Global Report on Environmental Rule of Law (hereafter referred to as the First Global ... -
Towards Zero Waste: A Catalyst for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals
(2023-11)Sustainable waste management is crucial to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. Prioritising waste reduction, recycling and safe disposal can address some of the most pressing social, economic and environmental ... -
An Eye on Methane: The road to radical transparency - International Methane Emissions Observatory 2023 Report
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)A methane data revolution is just around the corner, making it possible to move beyond generic emission factors that attempt to estimate the release of methane pollution, and to replace them with more accurate empirical ... -
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient Cities: Perspectives and experiences from Latin America
(United Nations Environment ProgrammeUnited Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean not only face inadequate land planning, housing deficits, and inefficient and unevenly distributed infrastructure; they also lack landscape or watershed planning that integrates ... -
Restoring mountain ecosystems: Challenges, case studies and recommendations for implementing the UN Decade Principles for Mountain Ecosystem Restoration
(United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2023-12)This publication, jointly developed by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at FAO and UNEP, analyses several mountain ecosystem restoration projects and recommends how the UN Decade’s Ten Principles for Ecosystem Restoration ... -
Greening the Blue Report 2023: The UN System’s Environmental Footprint and Efforts to Reduce it
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)This digital PDF component of the Report provides the UN system-wide 2022 results on the five environmental impacts areas: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, waste, air pollution, water and biodiversity; on the overarching ... -
Pricing Forest Carbon
(2023-12)Pricing forest carbon and putting in place the means and channels to pay for it are necessary conditions to achieve the 2030 mitigation goals. Yet, after more than 15 years of discussion, payments for emissions reductions ... -
Green economic recovery: Mobilizing investments towards a low-emission, climate-resilient economy in Latin America and the Caribbean (Coming Soon)
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)The project "Green Economic Recovery: Mobilizing investments towards a low-emission and climate-resilient economy in Latin America and the Caribbean" aimed to support selected LAC countries (Argentina, Costa Rica, ... -
Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Horizon scanning of opportunities & risks
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-06)This report specifically delves into how digital technologies can be harnessed to manage environmental and natural resource risks that contribute to insecurity and social conflict, as well as the opportunities they present ... -
Environmental impact of the conflict in Gaza: Preliminary assessment of environmental impacts
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-06)This Preliminary Assessment was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in response to an official request from the State of Palestine for an assessment of the environmental impacts of the conflict in ...