Browsing UNEP Publications by Topic "Nature 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Composting Solid Organic Waste from Municipal Sources in West Asia – A Technical Guide for Decision Makers and Practitioners
(2024-12)The purpose of this guide is to provide decision makers and waste managers with sufficient technical information to plan, design and operate a composting facility. It is aimed at developing Asian countries where access to ... -
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 ... -
Decades of Mangrove Forest Change: What Does it Mean for Nature, People and the Climate?
(2023-04)Decades of Mangrove Forest Change: What does it mean for nature, people and the climate? reviews the extent of mangrove forest cover and considers the potential consequences of changes in mangrove extent for more than 1,000 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
For all life on Earth: Actions to protect, restore and sustainably use nature. A practical guide in support of the Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)Our world faces environmental crises that threaten to upend life as we know it. Earth is degraded, deforested and warming dangerously. Nature and the myriad of benefits that it provides to people is declining all around ... -
Freshwater Quality Monitoring with Biota - Technical Guidance Document
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)This technical guidance document is intended for scientists and practitioners who work with freshwaters in the field and in the laboratory but who do not have specialist knowledge of ecology and the use of biota for water ... -
From Grey to Green: Better Data to Finance Nature in Cities - State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2024
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-10)The State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2024 report: From Grey to Green: Better data to finance nature in cities, highlights the need for better data and tools to help cities integrate Nature based Solutions (NbS) into ... -
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 Peatland Hotspot Atlas: The State of the World’s Peatlands in Maps - Visualizing global threats and opportunities for peatland conservation, restoration, and sustainable management
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)Building on the findings of the Global Peatlands Assessment (GPA), the Atlas reveals the status of global peatlands through a series of maps that highlight their distribution and features on a continental scale, identifying ... -
Global Resources Outlook 2024 - Bend the trend: Pathways to a Liveable Planet as Resource Use Spikes
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)The world is in the midst of a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and waste. The global economy is consuming ever more natural resources, while the world is not on track to meet the ... -
Greening the Blue Annual Report 2024 - The UN system's environmental footprint and efforts to reduce it
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-12)On an annual basis, Greening the Blue provides information on the UN system’s environmental footprint and the efforts to reduce it. Greening the Blue Annual Reports highlight the progress in the implementation of 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 ... -
Growing the Green: How and why restoration finance needs to quadruple by 2030 - State of Finance for Nature - Restoration Finance Report
(2024-12)To support implementation of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, this report focuses on finance flows and investment needs for restoration. Ecosystem restoration is based on “the process of halting and reversing ...
