Browsing UNEP Publications by Topic "Climate Action"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Caspian Sea Fluctuations and Climate Change: Coordinated research is needed to understand how climate change is impacting Caspian Sea levels - Working paper
The Caspian Sea’s water levels are declining. While the science of Caspian Sea fluctuations is complex, there is growing evidence that substantial further declines will occur in the next 50 years, with impacts on the ... -
Caucasus Environment Outlook - Second edition
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)The second edition of the Caucasus Environment Outlook (CEO-2) emphasizes in its nine chapters the importance of regional environmental monitoring through a participatory and consultative approach. It explores the latest ... -
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 ... -
A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons from the United Nations Environment Programme - Policy Brief
(2024-03)Over the past decade, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has embraced Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) in supporting climate change response projects across the world. The adoption by UNEP of the EbA approach ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation - Stakeholder Dialogue Report
(2023-04)Ecosystem-based adaptation is an approach that uses biodiversity and ecosystem services to help communities adapt to the impacts of climate change. For example, protecting coastal habitats like mangroves provides natural ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again)
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)As this fourteenth Emissions Gap Report shows, not only temperature records continue to be broken – global GHG emissions and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) also set new records in 2022. Due to the failure ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitments
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-10)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! is the 15th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide ... -
Environmental and social safeguards in Rwanda - A Climate adaptation case study
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)A project supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is aiming to increase the capacity of Rwandan authorities and local communities to adapt to climate change using ... -
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 ... -
Financing Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Cities: A case study from Mexico
(2024-04)Mexico was among the first nations to introduce climate legislation under the General Law on Climate Change in 2012. It submitted its first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention ... -
Gender-responsive Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A case study from El Salvador
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)Coffee represents the backbone of the economy in El Salvador, with the vast majority produced by small-scale farmers. Almost 80% farmers cultivate on small plots of less than 3.5 hectares. However, changing temperatures ... -
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
(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 ...
