UNEP Publications: Recent submissions
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Specialized Manual on Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education and Learning: Advancing Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education and Learning in All Segments of Society
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)This manual aims to facilitate and stimulate action on green and sustainable chemistry learning and education throughout society, empowering stakeholders to advance UNEP’s 10 Objectives and Guiding Considerations for Green ... -
Review of Facts, Experiences, Achievements, and Challenges in Relation to POPs Monitoring
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)This review is based on the review of information from the implementation of the Global Monitoring Plan in core media (ambient air, human breast milk/blood, water) by strategic partnerships and by the United Nations ... -
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 ... -
A guide to implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action at national level
(World Health Organization, 2023-12)The guide aims to provide countries with practical guidance on how to implement the One Health approach through the adoption and adaptation of the implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH JPA), aligning with ... -
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 ... -
Global Cooling Watch 2023 - Keeping it Chill: How to Meet Cooling Demands while Cutting Emissions
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-12)This report shines a spotlight on cooling policy trends, technologies and investment opportunities to help close the gaps in access, affordability and information. It focuses not only on space cooling but also on cold ... -
Organization and Outcomes of Four Rounds of Interlaboratory Assessments on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(2023-12)Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been shown to adversely impact human health and the environment. Concern over POPs is also attributed to their stability and persistence in the environment, potential to undergo ... -
Increasing Climate Ambition, Decreasing Emissions: The Third Progress Report of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-10)The Alliance’s First (2021) and Second Progress Report (2022b) presented data on growth for all of the following metrics: Alliance members, members that have set intermediate targets, and the AuM covered under the Alliance’s ... -
Towards Zero Waste: A Catalyst for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals
(2023-11)Sustainable waste management is crucial to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. Prioritising waste reduction, recycling and safe disposal can address some of the most pressing social, economic and environmental ... -
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 ... -
Nature-based Infrastructure: How natural infrastructure solutions can address sustainable development challenges and the triple planetary crisis
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)This report analyzes the potential contribution of nature-based infrastructure (NbI) solutions to the SDGs, Paris Agreement, and Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). It identifies five ‘functions’ through which nature can ... -
Online Annexes - Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced. Underprepared. Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation leaves world exposed
(2023-11)These annexes include: Annex 2.A: Detailed methodology underlying the analysis presented in chapter 2; Annex 2.B: Number of planning instruments and legal instruments published each year; Annex 2.C: Results from the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Transboundary landscape management tools and key strategies in the Lancang-Mekong region
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)This report aims to collect, analyse and disseminate the knowledge base for practitioners and policymakers on tools, key strategies and good practices on integrated ecosystem management in connection with livelihoods in ... -
Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)Ceiling fans are a low-cost cooling option which enhance greater indoor comfort with a power consumption typically less than 90 watts compared to room AC systems which typically have a consumption of around 1500 watts. ...
