Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies: Recent submissions
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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. -
Annexes - Global Cooling Watch 2023 - Keeping it Chill: How to Meet Cooling Demands while Cutting Emissions
(2024-03)This document contains the following annexes: Annex 1 Technologies primer; Annex 2 Modelling future scenarios for cooling; Annex 3 Global installed capacity of cooling equipment; Annex 4 Variables used to estimate annual ... -
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 ... -
Linking REDD+, the Paris Agreement, Nationally Determined Contributions and the Sustainable Development Goals: Realizing the Potential of Forests for NDC Enhancement and Implementation. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)The UN-REDD Programme has been delivering a knowledge management workstream to provide technical analysis and practical knowledge to countries on how to better mainstream their REDD+ efforts and align them with the provisions ... -
Land-use Planning and Integrated Approaches to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)The planet and its resources are under pressure. Forests, agricultural land and other natural resources are increasingly subject to conflict, and negotiation is needed on multiple land uses and between users. Integrated ... -
Gender and REDD+: Promoting Transformational Change and Innovation in REDD+ Action. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)The concept of gender support within the Programme has evolved and grown over time through the use of a “learning by doing” approach. Through experience across regions, it has been found most effective to integrate gender ... -
National Funding Mechanisms for REDD+: Lessons Learned and Success Factors. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)UN-REDD technical assistance as it relates to national REDD+ funding mechanisms focuses on helping countries to create structures that meet the requirements of various sources of international funding while fitting into ... -
Forest Tenure and REDD+: Good Practice, Lessons Learned and Recommendations. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)Inspired by the 2010 Cancun Agreements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which urged country Parties to address land tenure issues (para. 72 of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ... -
Recognizing and Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities as Critical Partners in Forest Solutions to the Climate Emergency. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global
(2024-02)Over the past decade, UN-REDD has developed and deployed a rich set of policies and practices to advance social inclusion and equity in REDD+ endeavours, with a focus on the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities ...
