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Haiti: Increasing Haiti’s Resilience to Natural Disasters and Promoting Sustainable Practices: 2008-2022
(2022-08)UNEP’s work in Haiti aims at building effective community resilience models through promoting nature-based solutions to disasters risk reduction and sustainable development. This goal implies to work on a broad range of ... -
Haiti’s South Department: Major Achievements in Sustainable Development 2011-2016
(2016-06)This fact sheet outlines the major achievements in sustainable development in Haiti from 2011 to 2016. -
Harmful Substances and Hazardous Waste - United Nations Environment Programme
Factsheets in this series: Climate change, Resource efficiency, Disasters and conflicts, Environmental governance, Harmful substances and hazardous waste, Ecosystem management. -
Harmonizing Environmental Standards for Food Production: The Role of the World Trade Organization
(2024-07)Developing international environmental standards for agri-food production is critical to ensuring sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems in the future. -
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Hazardous Substances in the Life Cycle of Electrical and Electronic Products (HSLEEP) - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on hazardous substances in the life cycle of electrical and electronic products (HSLEEP) contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues ... -
The HCFC Quota and Licence Tracker Desktop Application
(2020)The HCFC Quota and Licence Tracker Desktop Application is a simple but powerful tool designed to assist National Ozone Officers in Article 5 countries in their daily work. The tracker enables the planning, calculating, ... -
HCFCs in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sector: How to prepare for the phase down
(2011)UNEP DTIE OzonAction has come out with two new flyers to provide stakelholders with a general overview and basic information on HCFC phaseout. This flyer addresses HCFCs in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector. ... -
Health & Environment - [Factsheet]
Growing evidence and new understanding about the mounting risks to health and ecosystem degradation, as well as positive contributions to health from ecosystems services, mandates a fresh approach on health and environment ... -
Healthy environment, healthy people
The factsheets highlights Why addressing the links between environment and health is important and why it matters -
The Heat Is On: Emissions Gap Report 2021
(2021)In 2021, as climate impacts intensified around the world, and the IPCC warned we have a 50% chance of surpassing 1.5°C within two decades, there was still hope that COP26 could become a turning point on climate action. ... -
HFC Baselines and Phase-down Timetable - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 5
This fact sheet shows the four country groupings under the Kigali Amendment and provides a summary of the timetables and explains how to calculate the HFC baseline. -
Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)Pesticides are widely used biologically active compounds designed to kill target organisms. A number of pesticides have also been shown to cause adverse effects on non-target organisms. -
Hotels in Brussels, Belgium for your Information
(2024-07)1) To apply UN rate, please indicate which UN meeting you will attend through the below email/hotel booking site/phone call etc. when you make a hotel booking; and 2) Please consider this as indicative information ... -
Household Medical Waste Management Strategies - COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheet 7
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]
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
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 ...