Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2023: Time to Assess - Summary for local policymakers
(2023)Nature-based solutions can help cities become more resilient, healthy and equitable. But for urban nature to reach its full potential, investments need to be substantially scaled up. In 2020, NbS received just 0.3% of ... -
Quadripartite Key Recommendations and Priorities for the 2024 UNGA High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - A Policy Brief
(2024-05)This document sets out the key recommendations of the Quadripartite organizations (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organization (WHO) ... -
Deep-Sea Mining: The environmental implications of deep-sea mining need to be comprehensively assessed - Issues Note 6 May 2024
(2024-05)This Issues Note provides a review of the latest literature on specific topics that are of relevance to UNEP’s mandate as outlined in “The future we want: outcome of the Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, ... -
Evaluation Brief - Enhanced capacity for measuring progress towards the Environmental Dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals 2020-2023
(2024-04)The project’s main objective was to strengthen national capacity for designing coherent and integrated policies for sustainable development, monitoring and reporting on the environmental dimension of the SDGs, and focused ... -
Key Messages - World Environment Day 5 June 2024
(2024-04)All over the world, ecosystems are threatened. From forests and drylands to farmlands and lakes, natural spaces on which humanity’s existence depends are reaching a tipping point. This is why World Environment Day 2024 ... -
UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2024 Key Messages
(2024-03)The Food Waste Index Report is tracking country-level progress to halve food waste by 2030 (SDG 12.3). First published in 2021, the current report builds on recent and greater datasets and provides an update on the scale ... -
Annex 1: Glossary of Key Terms - UNEP Monitoring and Reporting Policy [Coming Soon]
(2024-03)This document promulgates the revised UNEP Policy on Monitoring and Reporting. It supersedes the UNEP policy on programme monitoring approved on 10 March 2010. This policy underlines the Organization’s commitment to reinforce ... -
Enhancing countries’ capacities for measuring progress on the transition towards a circular economy (2024-2026)
(2024-03)This project aims to build capacity to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy in the context of sustainable development at different levels. Enhancing institutional technical capacities to regularly produce ... -
Faith for Earth Coalition Achievement Report 2023 - Message from the Director of the Coalition
(2023-03)A summary of the Faith for Earth Coalitions Achievements in 2023. -
Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 - Beyond an Age of Waste: Turning Rubbish into a Resource - Executive Summary
(2024-02)Executive summary -
Early Warning for Environment (EWE) Workshop - Co-creating a Strategy for One UN Common Approach to EWE
(2023-11)This Early Warning for Environment Workshop was organized by UNEP and held in the International Environment House, Geneva, Switzerland (Hybrid), from 20 to 21 November 2023. It was attended by 11 other UN Agencies and 6 ... -
Safeguarding People and Nature in REDD+: Meeting the Safeguards Requirements Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)The implementation of activities under the REDD+ mechanism has the potential to deliver social and environmental benefits that go beyond the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, but it may also entail potential risks to ... -
Developing Capacity for National Forest Monitoring Systems: UN-REDD Support and Innovative Solutions for Collecting, Managing and Reporting Forest Data. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)National forest monitoring is a process that includes generating information to allow for the monitoring of changes and trends in forests over time, usually from cycles of data collection (both remote-sensing and field ...
