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Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth – Infographic
(2011)
We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate. This is the notion behind “decoupling”.
Greening Economies in the EU’s Eastern Partnership Countries – Belarus
(2014)
Greening economies is important because risks to further development are rising worldwide as the current models of growth continue to erode the stocks of natural assets and undermine the integrity of ecosystem services on ...
Integrating Traditional Crop Genetic Diversity into Technology: Using a Biodiversity Portfolio Approach to Buffer against Unpredictable Environmental Change in the Nepal Himalayas
(2019-01-15)
We aim to mainstream the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity in the mountain agricultural production landscapes of Nepal to improve ecosystem resilience, ecosystem services and access and benefits sharing capacity in ...
Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining National Action Plan Global Component
(2016-10-01)
Development of National Action Plans (NAPs) for Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an obligation under Article 7 of the Minamata Convention on Mercury for each country that determines that ASGM in its territory ...
Template for ASGM National Action Plan
(2017-11-01)
Greening Economies in the EU’s Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova
(2014)
Greening economies is important because risks to further development are rising worldwide as the current models of growth continue to erode the stocks of natural assets and undermine the integrity of ecosystem services on ...
Environmental Governance
(2010)
UNEP’s Environmental Governance sub-programme promotes informed environmental decision-making to enhance global and regional environmental cooperation and governance.
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want - Scenarios Infographic
(2019)
Through a combination of resource efficiency, climate mitigation, carbon removal, and biodiversity protection policies, this report finds that it is feasible and possible to grow economies, increase well-being and remain ...
Healthy environment, healthy people
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)
The factsheets highlights Why addressing the links between environment and health is important and why it matters