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The International Day of Zero Waste: Towards Zero Waste in Fashion and Textiles
(2025-02-01)Humanity’s unsustainable consumption and production practices are driving the planet towards destruction. Every year, the world generates between 2.1 billion and 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste – from textiles ... -
Aligning Colombia’s Financial System with Sustainable Development: Current Practice and Future Potential to Mobilize Investment for the Green Economy [Executive Summary]
(2025-02-02)This document has been commissioned by the IFC and the UNEP Inquiry to explore the state of green finance in Colombia within the wider economic and financial sector context, and at the same time, to identify challenges and ... -
Draft decision 1: Ad interim composition of the Executive Board of the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund
(2024-01)Draft decision for Focal Point review that acknowledges the proposed way forward on the composition of the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund Executive Board until the first International Conference to take place in 2026. -
Measurability structure - Note by the Secretariat
(2023-11-29)Note by secretariat on measurability structure -
Early Warning as a Human Right: Building resilience to climate-related hazards - Executive Summary
(2015)Early warning systems (EWS) can improve resilience of households to climate related hazards, by providing information for early action. However, to be effective, early warning systems must themselves incorporate aspects ... -
Annex I - The 2023 Annex to the CPR on UNEP’s Private Sector Engagement
(2023-01)This document is the 2023 Annex to Annual Report to CPR on UNEP’s Private Sector Engagement. -
Capacity Building Workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in West Asia: Report of the Workshop.
(2024-09-17)United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with Supreme Council for Environment organised this capacity-building workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) to enhance capacity and knowledge of ... -
UNEP-IETC action on EPR: Good Practice emerged from EPR workshops.
(2024-12-03)Good Practice emerged from EPR workshops -
Workshop Report: Practices and lessons learned for the design and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems in the Latin American Region
(2024-12-03)The main objective of the workshop was to exchange best practices, knowledge and challenges for the design and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems, with a focus on South American countries. On ... -
Key Messages - An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2024 Report
(2024-11)The fourth edition of UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)publication, An Eye on Methane: Invisible, but not unseen, takes stock of progress in harnessing a data revolution that can accelerate methane ... -
UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Key Messages
(2024-10)As greenhouse gas emissions reach new highs and climate impacts intensify globally, nations are preparing updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for submission in early 2025 ahead of COP30 in Brazil. The Emissions ... -
Executive summary - Eye on Methane Report 2024
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Key Messages - UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2024
(2024-11)This document features key messages of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2024. -
Executive Summary - Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water - As fires and floods hit the poor hardest, it is time for the world to step up adaptation actions
(2024-11)The Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) series provides an annual assessment on progress in adaptation planning, implementation and finance to inform key processes, notably under the UNFCCC. In line with this, the AGR 2024 continues ... -
Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas - Key Messages
(2024-11)The document enumerates eleven key messages delivered by the Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas. -
Circular Economy in Cities
(2024-10)In cities, a circular economy model implies a systemic shift. Services, such as water, waste or energy, are provided making efficient use of natural resources as primary materials and optimizing their reuse. Economic ... -
Cooling and Extreme Heat
(2024-10)In response to the rapid rise in the scale, intensity, frequency and impacts of extreme heat, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently called for an urgent and concerted effort to enhance international cooperation ... -
Online Annexes - Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water - As fires and floods hit the poor hardest, it is time for the world to step up adaptation actions
(2024-11)Annex 2 Global progress on adaptation planning: Annex 2.A Methodology underlying section 2.2; Annex 2.B: Methodology underlying section 2.3; Annex 2.C Methodology underlying section 2.4. Annex 3 Global progress on adaptation ... -
Joint technical note by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - A comparison of the findings of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024 and the UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Synthesis Report 2024
(2024)This note provides an overview and comparison of the projections of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global warming reported in the 2024 editions of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report and the UNFCCC Nationally Determined ... -
Key Messages - UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024
(2024-10)As greenhouse gas emissions reach new highs and climate impacts intensify globally, nations are preparing updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for submission in early 2025 ahead of COP30 in Brazil. The Emissions ...
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