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Waste and chemicals in Azerbaijan: A visual synthesis
The publication aims to catalyse remedial action on environmental legacies and responsible approaches to waste and chemical management by sharing information and improving public awareness of situations and trends in ... -
Waste Management as an Essential Service in Latin America and the Caribbean: Articulating Social and Environmental Policy for the post-COVID-19 Recovery - Policy Brief
(2020)Governments need to consider waste management as an urgent and essential public service to respond to emergencies such as the COVID-19 outbreak, in order to minimize possible secondary impacts upon health and the environment. ... -
Waste Not, Want Not: Reducing Food Loss and Waste in North America through Life Cycle-based Approaches - Executive Summary
(2019)The objective of this report is to describe life cycle thinking and the suite of quantitative tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA) that are rooted in that perspective, and to detail where and how these tools can be ... -
Waste to Energy: Considerations for Informed Decision-making - Summary for Policymakers
(2019)Thermal Waste-to-Energy (WtE), also known as incineration with energy recovery, is a major waste treatment method in some developed countries and the most widely adopted technology that dominates the global WtE market. ... -
We are Losing the "Little Things that Run the World" - Foresight Brief No. 011 - January 2019
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2019)Insects make up about half of all known living organisms. They play key roles in, pollination, nutrient cycling, food chains or birds and other insectivores, and are one of the pillars of our ecosystems. However, the wide ... -
WESR Strategy and Conceptual Approach
(2022-03)This strategy and conceptual approach outline how UNEP will enhance the development of the World Environment Situation Room (WESR), headquartered in Nairobi, as a user-centric, demand-driven platform designed to meet the ... -
Working with Plants, Soils and Water to Cool the Climate and Rehydrate Earth’s Landscapes - Foresight Brief No. 025 July 2021
(2021)This Brief enhances our understanding of the interwoven relationships and the subsequent fluxes of energy between plants, soils and water on the ground, as well as in and with the atmosphere. It explains how these can help ... -
Working with the Environment to Protect People: UNEP’s COVID-19 Response
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands with the billions of people suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate priority is to protect them. But UNEP also has a duty to help nations build back better ... -
World Environment Day 2018: The Day the Tide Turned 0n Single-Use Plastics
(2018-06)In 2018, World Environment Day reached new heights. With India as host country, the world rallied around a movement to “Beat Plastic Pollution”. This simple yet ambitious call to action, inspired governments, institutions ... -
The World Environment Situation Room (WESR): A Federated Data System to support the SDGs and post- UNEP@50 Agenda
(2022-12)This strategy and conceptual approach outline how UNEP will enhance the development of the World Environment Situation Room (WESR), headquartered in Nairobi, as a usercentric, demand-driven platform designed to meet the ... -
World Environment Situation Room and WESR CCA: Executive Briefing - March 2022
(2022-03)The main highlights of this brief include: Official Launch of WESR; Overall Architecture of WESR; Technical Implementation of WESR; Thematic Implementation of WESR; Impact of WESR CCA; Interactive Country Fiches; Lessons ... -
World Environment Situation Room and WESR CCA: Executive Briefing - November 2021
(2021-11)This brief presents the updates on the global World Environment Situation Room, the impact on the Ground in Country support to UN Reforms (WESR CCA and EC country Fiches), the interoperability with UN Regional Economic ... -
World Environment Situation Room – Work Plan 2020-2021
(2021)The World Environment Situation Room (WESR) is the future United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on-line data and knowledge platform. It will enable users to visualize, query, access, link and download data, information ... -
World Environment Situation Room: Global Environmental Data Strategy - Big Data Platform on the Environment for Sustainable Development, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action
(2021)Science is fundamental for UN Environment’s role as a global United Nations agency for policy and action on the Environment and its foundational mandate to keep the Environment under review. In today’s times of transition ... -
Youth Paper: The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 - Version: as of 21 January 2020 - Under consultation
(2021)A healthy and sustainable environment is the foundation of an equitable, functioning society and the basis for prosperity and security. There is no doubt about the ecological and climate crisis humanity is facing in this ... -
Youth Strategy for Africa 2019-2022: Environmental Sustainability for Socioeconomic Empowerment
(2019)The objective of this strategy is to foster structured, sustainable, and meaningful youth engagement through socioeconomic models that espouse economic development while creating, maintaining or regenerating natural, social, ... -
Youth Task Force of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030)
(2021)The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in March 2019, through intergovernmental resolution A/RES/73/2841 proclaimed 2021-2030 as the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (hereafter UN Decade), “with the aim ... -
Zeroing in on Net Zero
(2021)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2021 finds that annual greenhouse gas emissions need to almost halve by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but the updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement ... -
Партнерство за действия в интересах «зеленой» экономики (PAGE) и проект Счета развития ООН «Повышение устойчивости государственных закупок для регионального перехода к инклюзивной «зеленой» экономике в Восточной Европе, на Кавказе и в Центральной Азии»
(2020-12)9 декабря 2020 г. Программа ООН по окружающей среде (ЮНЕП) в рамках проекта Счета развития ООН «Повышение устойчивости государственных закупок для регионального перехода к инклюзивной «зеленой» экономике в Восточной Европе, ...