Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Executive Summary - Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitments
(2024-10)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! is the 15th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide ... -
[Key Findings and Executive Summary] - What’s Cooking? An assessment of the potential impacts of selected novel alternatives to conventional animal products - Frontiers 2023 Special Issue
(2023-11)This report focuses on the potential environmental, health, social and animal welfare implications of the uptake of novel meat and dairy alternatives, in particular novel plant-based, fermentation-derived and cultivated ... -
Appendices - No more hot air … please! With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitments
(2024-10)Appendix A: Supplementary material for Chapter 2 - Global emissions trends. Appendix B: Supplementary material for Chapter 3 - Nationally determined contributions and long-term pledges: The global landscape and G20 member ... -
Executive Summary - Chemicals and Waste Issues of Concern: A Summary Analysis of Stakeholders’ Views on Priorities for Further Work and Potential Further International Action
(2024-10)In 2020, UNEP published an Assessment Report on 19 chemicals and waste issues of concern which pose risks to human health and the environment. The Report concluded that urgent international concerted action is needed for ... -
Key Messages by the Twelve Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa that was Held in Abidjan 30 August to 02 September 2024
(2024-09)Key Messages by the twelve Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa that was held in Abidjan 30 August to 02 September 2024. -
2024 IDAFLW Social Media
(2024-09)This document feature key messages, key figures as well as shareable tips related to the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2024. -
African Elephant Action Plan
(2023)The African Elephant Action Plan (AEAP) is a framework for the conservation and management of the African elephant. It was developed, and is owned and managed, by the African elephant range States, and as such represents ... -
UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2024 Appendix
(2024-07)This document includes i) Methodology for Level 1; ii) Possibly useful subsector studies; iii) Level 1 data by country for all sectors; and iv) Measurement methods appropriate for each sector -
Navigating New Horizons Key Messages
(2024-07)Navigating New Horizons – A Global Foresight Report on Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing, from the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Science Council, calls for the world to pay heed and respond ... -
Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing - Executive Summary
(2024-07)This Navigating New Horizons report outlines a process focused on planetary health and human wellbeing—an intentional framing to expand the range of issues and informed views that typically shape UNEP’s work. Why? To ensure ... -
Early Warning and Data Analytics Strategy for Humanity: 2030 and Beyond
(2024-06)Early Warning 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 and scenarios. By doing so, it enables ...
