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Technical Guidelines - Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future in Residential Construction Sector in Argentina
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)In order to enhance the national relevance and policy uptake of its global analysis, the IRP has endeavoured to contextualise the key results and messages of the global RECC report for the construction sector in Argentina. ... -
Chemicals and Waste Issues of Concern: A Summary Analysis of Stakeholders’ Views on Priorities for Further Work and Potential Further International Action
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-10)In 2020, UNEP published an Assessment Report on 19 chemicals and waste issues of concern which pose risks to human health and the environment. The Report concluded that urgent international concerted action is needed for ... -
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. -
Chapter 6/6: Conclusions - Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(2024-02)Shifting from a linear to a circular economy model is a complex, lengthy and challenging process. It requires countries to undergo structural changes and intensive technical support. There is no universal solution to apply ... -
Chapter 5/6: Policy-making and the Use of Circular Economy Indicators - Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(2024-02)This section analyses how circular economy indicators can help countries to shift from a linear to a circular economy. The first part focuses on presenting examples of the different instruments that can be used at national ... -
Chapter 4/6: Data Gaps - Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(2024-02)Four out of the initial list of 15 circular economy core indicators are unavailable (as of October 2023). Considering proxy indicators, only 3 out of 15 indicators are not available. Regarding the various themes of the ... -
Chapter 3/6: Data Availability - Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(2024-02)Circular economy is a recent thematic topic, whose boundaries definition is still in progress, and many indicators are not yet well-defined. In general, the information required to populate the circular economy indicators ... -
Chapter 2/6: Data Sources, Data Providers and Methodologies - Circular Economy: from Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(2024-02)To create a dataset for the core indicators of circular economy, different data sources were identified and selected according to the following criteria: -
Chapter 1/6: Introduction - Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(2024-02)This report aims to map data at national, regional, and global levels, for core Circular Economy (CE) Indicators of the Joint UNECE/OECD Guidelines for measuring circular economy part A: conceptual framework, statistical ... -
Circular Economy: From Indicators and Data to Policy-making
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)This report aims to map data at national, regional, and global levels, for core Circular Economy Indicators based on the Guidelines for measuring circular economy to assess the availability and accessibility of circular ... -
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 ... -
Results of the 2016-2019 WHO/UNEP Human Milk Survey on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-09)This report presents the findings of the UNEP/GEF projects on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in human milk as a core matrix under the Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) of the Stockholm Convention, conducted between 2016 ... -
Used Heavy-Duty Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and Regulation
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)This Used Heavy-Duty Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and Regulation report analyses the flow and scale of used heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) from three major used HDVs ... -
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 ... -
Water as a Circular Economy Resource - Foresight Brief No. 033 February 2024
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-02)Fresh water is crucial for most human activities as well as for the health of all ecosystems and biodiversity. However, easily accessible water in sufficient quantity and quality is limited and is decreasing rapidly (UN ... -
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 Role of Remote Sensing and Social Research in Monitoring the Environmental Impact of Refugee/Internally Displaced Persons Camps - Foresight Brief No. 032 January 2024
(2024-01)Across the world, men, women and children are being displaced by conflict, economic conditions and climate change. Camps are set up to house displaced people as a short-term solution, but in many cases the displaced are ... -
Technical Annex - State of Finance for Nature: The Big Nature Turnaround - Repurposing $7 trillion to combat nature loss
(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 ... -
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
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-01)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 ...
