Browsing Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies by Author "Science Division"
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2018 Emissions Gap Report key messages
United Nations Environment Programme (2018-11)2018 Emissions Gap Report key messages -
30 Foresight Briefs: Early Warning, Emerging Issues and Futures - Special Edition 2017-2022
United Nations Environment Programme (2023-01)Foresight is a powerful tool for leveraging Humanity´s ability to think about and build the Future. It provides a way to think about possible, alternative and desired futures. By doing so, it enables individuals, organisations ... -
Accelerating Sustainability through Digital Transformation: Use Cases and Innovations - Supplement Number 1 to the CODES Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age
United Nations Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology; Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (2022-06)This Supplement Number 1 to the CODES Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age reflects the outcomes of a collective intelligence process across the CODES community to identify use cases and innovations that ... -
Acknowledgements - Adapt to Survive: Business Transformation in a Time of Uncertainty - GEO for Business Brief
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Acknowledgments - Future Proofing Infrastructure to Address the Climate Biodiversity and Pollution Crises: GEO for Business Brief 5
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Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age
United Nations Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology; Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (2022-06)Digitalization has enormous potential to support progress towards sustainability however we need to move the focus away from the pursuit of short-term, unsustainable gains towards the achievement of long-term values-driven ... -
Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age - Executive Summary
United Nations Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology; Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (2022-06)The main aim of this Action Plan is to catalyse collective action by the international community and the members of CODES towards the implementation of the 3 shifts and the associated 18 strategic priorities and outcomes ... -
Adaptation Decision-Support Tools and Platforms - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #1
World Adaptation Science Programme (2020)Key messages: • Decision support for adaptation should be useful (relevant, comprehensive and reliable) and usable (accessible, authoritative, attractive and engaging). • Failure to deliver successful decision support can ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2020 - Key Messages
United Nations Environment Programme (2021)2020 was not only the year of the pandemic, it was also the year of record temperatures and growing climate change impacts: floods, droughts, storms, wildfires and locust plagues. Even more worrying is that, based on current ... -
Addendum to the Emissions Gap Report 2021: A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of New or Updated Nationally Determined Contributions, other 2030 Pledges and Net-Zero Emissions Pledges Announced or Submitted Since the Cut-Off Dates of The Emissions Gap Report 2021
United Nations Environment Programme (2021)This note provides a preliminary assessment of the implications of the new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs), other 2030 mitigation pledges and net-zero announcements made after the cut-off dates used ... -
Blockchain Technology and Environmental Sustainability - Foresight Brief No. 019 October 2020
United Nations Environment Programme (2020)This Foresight Brief explores how blockchain technology could contribute to enhancing environmental sustainability management. The brief builds upon environmental use cases to review the technology’s key features, including ... -
Challenges for the Growth of the Electric Vehicle Market - Foresight Brief No. 017 June 2020
United Nations Environment Programme (2020)Electric vehicles (EV) can play an important part in the decarbonisation of the traffic sector. This helps in climate mitigation and positively impacts the air quality of cities, due to reduced emissions such as CO2, NOx, ... -
The Changing Aral Sea - Foresight Brief No. 003 October 2017
United Nations Environment Programme (2017)The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth largest inland lake. Its hydrological balance is strongly determined by inflows from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers which are fed by glacial melt waters from the southwestern ... -
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis; Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
United Nations Environment Programme; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2007)The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and ... -
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems - Summary for Policymakers
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2019)This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) is structured in four parts: A) People, land and climate in a warming world; B) Adaptation and mitigation response options; C) Enabling response options; and D) Action in the near-term. -
Closing Data Gaps is Essential to Achieving the Environmental Dimension of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development - SDG Policy Brief No. 008 October 2019
United Nations Environment Programme (2019-10)The Sustainable Development Goals Policy Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change. The evidence provided builds on the scientific data and information hosted on Environment Live and is complemented by stories ... -
Conceptual Framework for the Development of a Global Environmental Data Strategy
United Nations Environment Programme (2022)This document at this stage presents a conceptual framework for the development of a Global Environmental Data Strategy, which by request of Member States, should be finalized by UNEP by 2025. This is a first draft to begin ... -
Desert Locusts’ Upsurges: A Harbinger of Emerging Climate Change Induced Crises? - Foresight Brief No. 022 January 2021
United Nations Environment Programme (2021)The economic importance of locusts is evident from their impacts on livelihoods, food security and nutrition, economic development and on the environment. This foresight brief discusses some of these issues and highlights ... -
Designing the Article 6.4 Mechanism: Lessons Learned from the CDM
United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Environment Programme Technical University of Denmark Partnership (2021-10)Key messages and recommendations - The operational rules of Article 6.4 under the Paris Agreement would influence the supply of carbon credits on the market; however, the demand for credits cannot be controlled entirely ... -
Digital Transformation: Becoming an Innovative, Agile and Collaborative Organization, Fit for Purpose in the Digital Age - 2022 Version 1.0
United Nations Environment Programme (2022-04)This document sets out the vision for the Digital Transformation of the organization over the next four years, responding to a changing digital development landscape and the evolving needs of our partners, including ...