Browsing Technical Reports by Topic "Finance and Economic Transformations"
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2050 Electronic and Electrical Waste Outlook in West Asia
This Outlook provides projections for e-waste generation and challenges of managing e-waste in an economically diverse West Asia region. It also provides a stepwise approach for countries to manage e-waste in an environmentally ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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, ... -
Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-07)To help navigate current and future uncertainty and disruptive change, while effectively delivering on its mandate, UNEP has been implementing an institutionalized approach to strategic foresight and horizon scanning with ... -
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 ... -
Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Western Balkans
The Regional E-waste Monitor for the Western Balkans report was implemented through a joint partnership between the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the ... -
Responsible Banking: Towards Real-world Impact - The second biennial progress report on implementation of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking
The Principles for Responsible Banking (the Principles) serve as a leading global framework for responsible banking, guiding member banks to align their strategies and practices with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on ... -
State of Finance for Nature 2023: The Big Nature Turnaround - Repurposing $7 Trillion to Combat Nature Loss
Almost $7 trillion is invested annually in practices detrimental to nature from both public and private sector sources globally. For the first time, the 2023 edition of the State of Finance for Nature report estimates the ... -
Sustainability and Circularity in the Textile Value Chain - A Global Roadmap Textile Value Chain
This report defines ‘textiles’ as all products that contain knit or woven textile components, primarily composed of apparel and footwear, but also including home textiles, technical, medical and automotive textiles, etc. The ... -
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 ...