Technical Reports: Recent submissions
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Synthesis Report on the Road Map for Securing Conditions for Sustainable Monitoring of POPs [Coming Soon]
(2024-08)The extensive knowledge and experience acquired through years of monitoring POPs and activities implemented to strengthen the capacities, provide a robust foundation for securing sustainable conditions in future ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Raising ambition, accelerating action: Towards enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions for forests
Pledges to reduce deforestation and pledges to financially support this transition from developed countries, are insufficient to halt deforestation by 2030. This report finds that commitments within the Nationally Determined ... -
Assessing Regional and National Capacities for Monitoring and Research of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air and Water
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions, and with support provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented ... -
Strengthening Environmental Management and Reducing Pollution Risks from the Oil and Gas Sector in Uganda
In 2017, UNEP undertook an institutional capacity needs assessment (CNA) to evaluate environmental governance and management within the oil and gas sector in Uganda and developed a draft CNA report. An update to this ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Planning action on nature: Using spatial planning approaches to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - Conceptual guidelines
The aim of this report is to demonstrate how spatial planning approaches can be used to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework specifically focusing on the marine realm. Practical ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...