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Household Medical Waste Management Strategies - COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheet 7
(2020)As COVID-19 spreads to the developing world, with limited access to medical support, increased numbers of cases will have to self medicate at home. Proper management of household medical waste will therefore become key to ... -
How Can COVID-19 Recovery Spending Slow Climate Change?
(2021)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2021 finds that greenhouse gases need to fall by close to 50% by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement are still ... -
How COVID-19 Is impacting Adaptation Efforts - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm [Factsheet]
(2021-11)As the world looks to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions – efforts that are still nowhere near strong enough – the sixth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report: The Gathering Storm finds that the growth in ... -
How Energy Choices Influence the Human Future - Green Energy Choices: The Benefits, Risks and Trade-offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity production - Infographic
(2016)This infographic compares electricity generation technologies and highlights the environmental benefits, and trade-offs of each technology. The graphic presents an overview over the life cycle impacts and material requirements ... -
How Metals Determine Our Lives
(2011)Recycling rates of metals are far lower than potential for reuse. Less than one-third of 60 studied have a recycling rate above 50 per cent, though many are crucial to clean technologies such as batteries for hybrid cars ... -
How the Montreal Protocol Protects Health
(2014-11-26)The need to protect human health was the driving force behind the establishment of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987). ... -
How the World United to #BeatAirPollution: World Environment Day 2019
(2019-06)Each year, World Environment Day celebrates the environment and encourages action to protect our fragile ecosystems. The 2019 theme was air pollution, a global emergency that causes around 7 million premature deaths every ... -
How to Choose your Waste Management Technology to Treat COVID-19 Waste - COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheet 3
(2020)As countries develop an inventory of the existing national waste management facilities, they select environmentally sound options for waste treatment using the UNEP Sustainability Assessment of Technologies (SAT) guidance ... -
HS Codes for Mercury-Added Products
(2018-11)This document outlines proposed revised customs codes for better data and better implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury -
HS Nomenclature (HS Codes) for HCFCs and Certain Other Ozone Depleting Substances: Post-Kigali Update - OzonAction Fact Sheet
(2016)To better facilitate monitoring of trade in ODS, the Parties to the Montreal Protocol requested the World Customs Organization (WCO) to revise the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, also known as the ... -
The Huge Climate Potential of Methane Reductions
(2021)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2021 finds that greenhouse gases need to fall close to 50% by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement are still insufficient. ... -
Human Migration and Natural Resources: Global assessment of an adaptive complex system [Factsheet]
(2023-06)Minerals, arable land, water and energy delivery are key resource drivers of human mobility. While an abundance of these resources can attract immigration, resource scarcity can either trap populations or lead to emigration ... -
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IMEO Methane Science Study Framework
(2022-06)Purpose and Scope of the Framework Document - 1.1. The methane science study under the framework of the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) (hereafter referred to as the “Science Study”) is a workstream aimed ... -
Impact Brief - Enhanced capacity for measuring progress towards the Environmental Dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals 2020-2023
(2024-03)The project ‘Enhanced Capacity for Measuring Progress towards the Environmental Dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs), funded by the European Commission, included an activity (Activity 1.3) that aimed to ... -
Implementation of Paragraph 88 of the Rio+20 Outcome Document
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Implementing Industrial Symbiosis and Environmental Management Systems for SMEs in Three Regions in Ghana
(2017)The project seeks to promote sustainability among companies in three regions of Ghana by encouraging the reuse of other companies’ by-products by means of facilitating industrial symbiosis. The project will promote the use ... -
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Africa
(2020)This report describes the outcomes of the Africa Region consultations conducted on the implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance. Five consultative ... -
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Asia Pacific
(2020)This report describes the outcomes of the Asia Pacific consultations conducted on the implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance. Six consultative meetings ... -
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Europe and the Caucasus
(2020)This report describes the outcomes of the Europe and the Caucasus Region consultations conducted on the implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance. Five ...