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Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future
This report highlights the urgent need to develop new models for cooperation on the decarbonisation of building materials, if the world is to reach its goals for net zero emissions from the built environment sector by the ... -
Chemicals in Plastics - A Technical Report
This report aims to inform the global community about the chemical-related issues of plastic pollution and options to address them. It also aims to support the negotiation process to develop the instrument on plastic ... -
Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
This report aims to map data at national, regional, and global levels, for core Circular Economy Indicators based on the Guidelines for measuring circular economy to assess the availability and accessibility of circular ... -
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 ... -
Decades of Mangrove Forest Change: What Does it Mean for Nature, People and the Climate?
Decades of Mangrove Forest Change: What does it mean for nature, people and the climate? reviews the extent of mangrove forest cover and considers the potential consequences of changes in mangrove extent for more than 1,000 ... -
Digital Public Infrastructure for Environmental Sustainability
The report examines common information challenges stakeholders face when making decisions related to environmental sustainability and explores the role that Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can play as a key part of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Food Waste Index Report 2024. Think Eat Save: Tracking Progress to Halve Global Food Waste
To galvanize the necessary action on food waste reduction to achieve SDG 12.3, it is crucial to understand how much food waste there is. Measuring food waste enables countries to understand the scale of the problem – and ... -
Global Bioeconomy Assessment: Coordinated Efforts of Policy, Innovation, and Sustainability for a Greener Future
The bioeconomy, also known as the bio-based economy, refers to the economic activity involving the use of biotechnology and biomass in producing goods, services or energy. It aims to reduce the dependence on fossil ... -
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 ... -
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction - Beyond foundations: Mainstreaming sustainable solutions to cut emissions from the buildings sector
The Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction (Buildings-GSR), a report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), provides an annual ... -
Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 - Beyond an age of waste: Turning Rubbish into a Resource
The Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 is a collective effort of UNEP and the International Solid Waste Association. It was published in response to Resolution 2/7 from the second session (UNEP/EA.2/RES.7) of the United ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Inclusive Wealth Africa 2024: Moving beyond GDP
IWR Africa 2023 presents three key messages: • The renewable natural capital of African countries is in historic decline and there is no room for its mismanagement. A significant proportion of the African population relies ... -
Into the Blue: Securing a Sustainable Future for Kelp Forests
Into the Blue: Securing a Sustainable Future for Kelp Forests global synthesis report is the most comprehensive knowledge review on kelp to date, revealing the state of science on the world’s kelp forests and providing ...