Technical Reports: Recent submissions
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Raising ambition, accelerating action: Towards enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions for forests
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-06)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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-05)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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)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
(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
(2024-03)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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-03)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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-03)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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)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 ... -
Chemicals and Waste Issues of Concern: A Summary Analysis of Stakeholders’ Views on Priorities for Further Work and Potential Further International Action
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-10)In 2020, UNEP published an Assessment Report on 19 chemicals and waste issues of concern which pose risks to human health and the environment. The Report concluded that urgent international concerted action is needed for ... -
Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)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 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 ... -
Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Western Balkans
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)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 ... -
State of Finance for Nature 2023: The Big Nature Turnaround - Repurposing $7 Trillion to Combat Nature Loss
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)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 ... -
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 ...
