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Part 1: This is UNEP - UNEP: Your Partner for People and Planet - 2024 Edition
UNEP’s mission: to inform, enable and inspire To address the triple planetary crisis, UNEP’s mission is to inform, enable and inspire nations and people to improve their quality of life – without compromising that of ... -
Part 2: 50 Years of Environmental Milestones - UNEP: Your Partner for People and Planet - 2024 Edition
(2023-08)Founded in 1972, UNEP was created to monitor the state of the environment, inform policy making with science and coordinate responses to enduring and emergent environmental challenges. For five decades, UNEP has worked ... -
Part 3: UNEP Partnerships - UNEP: Your Partner for People and Planet - 2024 Edition
(2023-08)Environmental challenges have no borders and are too vast and too complicated for any single entity to address alone. UNEP partnerships with governments, environmental conventions, the scientific community, academia, ... -
Part 4: Funding of UNEP - UNEP: Your Partner for People and Planet - 2024 Edition
(2023-08)UNEP relies on voluntary contributions for over 95 per cent of its operations. There are four main sources of funding for UNEP: Earmarked Funds, Global Funds, UN Regular Budget and Environment Fund -
Participatory IWRM for Adapting to Unreliable Rainfall and Preventing Conflicts through Good Governance in North Darfur, Sudan
(2022-11)The Wadi El Ku catchment area, covering some 26,000 km² (slightly smaller than the size of Belgium) of the Sahel region of Darfur, Sudan, and receiving an annual average rainfall of just around 220 mm (far below the world ... -
Partners in the Amazon: Building Climate Resilience through Transboundary Water Cooperation
(2023-02)In the Amazon river basin, climate change effects are felt primarily through water. To address challenges in this complex and interconnected system, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) promotes regional ... -
A Partnership for Green Development in Belarus
(2020)Greening Belarus’s economy is urgently needed as the current models of growth continue to erode the stocks of natural assets and undermine the integrity of ecosystem services on which economic activity depends. This decade ... -
A Path to Eco-Innovation [Factsheet]
(2021)Eco-innovation is the development and application of a business model, shaped by a new business strategy that incorporates sustainability throughout all business operations based on life cycle thinking and in cooperation ... -
Pelagic Sargasssum Influx in the Wider Caribbean
(2015-09-01)Massive quantities of pelagic sargassum occurred throughout the Caribbean in 2011, impacting aquatic resources, fisheries, shorelines, waterways, and tourism. Similar events have occurred since then, with a particularly ... -
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues Posing Risks to Human Health and the ... -
The Persistence of POPs: 6 non-negligible facts - Worst Friends Forever
(2024-09)This factsheet touches on 6 facts about persistent organic pollutants: global presence, stubborn persistence, bioaccumulation potential, transboundary pollution, lingering health risks, and emerging threat. -
Phase-down Strategy: Impact of Gas Choices - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 19
(2018)In Kigali Fact Sheet 6 the development of a national HFC phase-down strategy is discussed. That Fact Sheet gives background information on the “core actions” that can be used to deliver the required cuts in HFC consumption. ... -
Phthalates - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on phthalates contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues Posing Risks to Human Health and the Environment and the 2019 Global Chemicals ... -
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Planning for REDD+ Benefits beyond Carbon
(2018-12-05)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
Plantilla: Ejercicio del Indicador ODS 12.c.1 Sobre los Subsidios a los Combustibles Fósiles
(2020-03-24)Plantilla rellena y vacía del ejercicio del Indicador ODS 12.c.1 sobre los subsidios a los combustibles fósiles. -
Plastic Management - Infographic
(2017)This infographic presents key information about plastics including types of plastic, plastic economy, key facts and figures as well as champion countries tackling plastic pollution. -
Plastics and Microplastics - Factsheet July 2015
(2015)Plastics have become a valuable commodity and an important part of everyday life, more so that global plastic production has increased from 5 million tons in the 1950’s to over 250 million tons in 2006 [7].But the high ...