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2050 Electronic and Electrical Waste Outlook in West Asia
(2023-03)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 ... -
Accelerating the global adoption of energy-efficient electric motor systems - Policy guide
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2025-04)This document provides an overall reference source for policymakers in developing country and emerging economies to transition to energy-efficient motor systems. It offers an overview of all key elements for transforming ... -
Achieving clean air for blue skies in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea
(2023-05)According to UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO) 6 for Cities, air pollution is currently the largest environmental health risk in cities. As such, cities are an integral part of the solution in fighting air pollution ... -
Adaptation Finance Gap Update 2023 - Adaptation Gap Report 2023
(2023-11)UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2023 has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the literature and commissioned new studies to provide updated estimates of the cost of adaptation and current adaptation finance flows, and ... -
Adaptation finance: Mobilizing the private sector - Adaptation Gap Report 2023 – Case Study
(2023-11)Unlocking private finance in support of climate action is one of the main challenges governments, international organizations and development banks have been grappling with since the Paris Agreement entered into force. This ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced. Underprepared. Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation leaves world exposed
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) series provides an annual science-based assessment of the global progress on adaptation planning, financing, and implementation. It also explores options for enhancing and advancing ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water - As fires and floods hit the poor hardest, it is time for the world to step up adaptation actions
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)The Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) series provides an annual assessment on progress in adaptation planning, implementation and finance to inform key processes, notably under the UNFCCC. In line with this, the AGR 2024 continues ... -
Advancing Effectiveness of Climate Adaptation - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #7
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-10)Evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation policies and actions is important to advance the scale and scope of climate risk reduction. The goal of this WASP Sciencefor-Adaptation Policy Brief (SAPB) is to enhance the ... -
Africa Environment Outlook for Business: Our Environment Our Health
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)AEO for Business aims to identify and document options for stimulating the linkages between business and environmental sustainability in Africa while augmenting their benefits to people, nature, and economies and achieving ... -
Annex 4.1. Updated Evidence on the Estimated Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation - The Adaptation Gap Report 2018
(2018)This annex describes material prepared to support Chapter 4 of the Adaptation Gap Report 2018 -
Annexes: Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(2024-02)The annexes of the Circular Economy: from indicators and data to policy-making contains the geographical distribution, list of variables with available data as well as the metadata for circular economy core indicators. -
Appendices - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window - Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(2022-10)This document includes: Appendix A Supplementary material for chapter 2: Global emissions trends; Appendix B Supplementary material for chapter 3: Nationally determined contributions and long-term pledges: The global ... -
Applying TEEB for Agriculture and Food to Inform Food System Policy: Modeling Guidance and Case Studies
(2024-09)This guide is a ‘how-to’ guide and proof of concept, i.e., (i) how to formulate the policy scenarios that TEEB Agrifood is applied to, (ii) what data, methods and disciplinary expertise are required, (iii) what is the ... -
Artificial Intelligence (AI) end-to-end: The Environmental Impact of the Full AI Lifecycle Needs to be Comprehensively Assessed - Issue Note
(2024-09)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United ... -
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 ... -
Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening Environmental Action in the One Health Response to Antimicrobial Resistance
(2023-02)For decades antimicrobials have contributed to the reduction of infectious diseases in humans, animals and plants, saving lives and increasing productivity. Their effectiveness is now in jeopardy. Antimicrobial resistance ... -
Bridging the Emissions Gap: The Role of Non-state and Subnational actors - Pre-release version of a chapter of the forthcoming UN Environment Emissions Gap Report 2018
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018)This publication is part of a collaborative series of reports by over 30 organizations released in concert with the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit, which showcase the extraordinary action of states, regions, cities, ... -
Building Circularity into Nationally Determined Contributions - A Practical Toolbox User Guide
(United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme and Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2023-10)The “building circularity into NDCs” user guide and digital toolbox aim to support countries to assess, prioritize, implement and track circular economy interventions for increased ambition and implementation of their NDCs. ... -
Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-09)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 ... -
Cascading impacts and floods: Building adaptive capacity in Pakistan - Adaptation Gap Report 2023 – Case Study
(2023-11)Pakistan ranks consistently among the top 10 countries most affected by the climate crisis and natural disasters. Responding to these cascading risks and impacts requires transdisciplinary, cross‑scale and cross‑sector ...
