Browsing UNEP Publications by Topic "Environmental Governance"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 Data, Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals - The Case Study of Bangladesh
A healthy environment is a precondition for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To be able to meet environmental objectives, Governments need accurate and reliable environmental data. In Bangladesh, UNEP worked ... -
Environmental Data, Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals - The case study of Burkina Faso
(2023-07)A healthy environment is a precondition for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To be able to meet environmental objectives, Governments need accurate and reliable environmental data. In Burkina Faso, UNEP worked ... -
Environmental Data, Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals - The case study of Colombia
(2023-07)A healthy environment is a precondition for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To be able to meet environmental objectives, Governments need accurate and reliable environmental data. In Colombia, the work was ... -
Environmental Data, Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals - The Case Study of Guyana
(2023-07)A healthy environment is a precondition for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To be able to meet environmental objectives, Governments need accurate and reliable environmental data. In Guyana, UNEP worked with ... -
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 ... -
Environmental Rule of Law and Human Rights in Asia Pacific: Supporting the Protection of Environmental Human Rights Defenders - Working Paper
This Working Paper presents trends in the application of the environmental rule of law and human rights in Asia Pacific, with special emphasis on the protection of environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs). This Working ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Guide on Ambient Air Quality Legislation - Air Pollution Series
Embedding ambient air quality standards (AAQS) in legislation is an important foundation for effective national air quality governance. Legislation can establish institutional responsibility for air quality standards, set ... -
Guidebook on Mainstreaming Gender in the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-05)This Guidebook on Mainstreaming Gender in the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (hereinafter referred to as the guidebook) has been developed to help advance the agenda of gender equality and women’s empowerment under ... -
Handbook for the Fifth Montevideo Programme on the Progressive Development and Implementation of Environmental Law
The Montevideo Programme V secretariat has developed this digital handbook that highlights the Programme’s objectives, activities and outcomes in order to raise awareness and enhance understanding of the Programme by ... -
International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2021 - UNEP Course Series 20
To promote information sharing and support countries to meet their obligations, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in partnership with the University of Eastern Finland has organized annual training courses ... -
Keeping the Promise - Annual Report 2023
(2024-02)Last year was one of broken records and broken promises. We saw new highs of greenhouse gas emissions, temperature records tumbling and climate impacts arriving stronger and faster. The finance to help vulnerable communities ... -
The Parliamentarian’s guide to protecting the Mediterranean Sea and coast: A handbook for members of parliaments serving in the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols
Members of parliaments play a pivotal role in transposing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) into enforceable national law. The Barcelona Convention and its Protocols are a case in point: how can a newly elected ... -
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Handbook on indicator 17.14.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals
(2024-07)The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, is a plan of action for people, the planet and prosperity, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; see ... -
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 ...