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Right to a Healthy Environment: Good Practices - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
(2020)
The present report highlights good practices in the recognition and implementation of the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The term “good practice” is defined broadly, to include laws, ...
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: A Menu of Solutions to Feed nearly 10 billion People by 2050 - Synthesis Report
(2018)
The report focuses on technical opportunities and policies for cost-effective scenarios for meeting food, land use, and greenhouse gas
emissions goals in 2050 in ways that can also help to alleviate poverty and do not ...
An Exploration of Options and Functions of Climate Technology Centres and Networks - Discussion Paper
(2010)
This paper responds to a request to UNEP from the UNFCCC Expert Group on Technology Transfer to examine operational modalities for climate technology centres and networks. The paper first dis- cusses possible dimensions ...
Uganda Case Study: A Sampler Atlas of Environmental Resource Datasets within GRID - GRID Case Study Series No.1
(1987)
Data entry, modeling and graphical output for the Uganda case study have been carried out with the ARC/INFO Geographic Information System on a PRIME minicomputer. Most of the basic datasets were digitized from the Atlas ...
Enhancing NDCS for Food Systems: Recommendations for Decision-Makers
(2020)
This paper seeks to provide guidance and recommendations for policy-makers to increase ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement using the climate change mitigation and adaptation ...
The Libreville Declaration on Health and Environment in Africa: 10 Years On, 2008 - 2018
(2018)
The methodology of this assessment consisted of a simple self-assessment questionnaire was used as a tool to gauge the progress of implementation of the Libreville Declaration. The questionnaires were shared with the 47 ...
Environmental Law in UNEP
(1991)
The thrust of UNEP's environmental law activity comes from the decisions of its Governing Council and is strengthened by such major UNEP programme documents as the "In-depth Review of Environmental Law" (pertaining to ...
Focus on your World: Photographs from the United Nations Environment Programme
(2000)
effects of global warming. This mainly occurs as the result of the build-up in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases. Scientists have identified global warming as a major threat to the future of ...
An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory - 2021 Report
(2021)
Methane Matters - Curbing methane emissions from fossil fuels matters. And it matters under any plausible decarbonisation scenario. UNEP promotes a rapid transition away from fossil fuels but recognizes the climate importance ...
Chapter 5. Maladaptation to Climate Change: Avoiding Pitfalls on the Evolvability Pathway - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)
As climate change negotiations progressed, researchers examined how and why some adaptation actions go awry, particularly those actions that waste substantial amounts of human, natural, or financial resources. Maladaptation ...