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Lead Paint Law Compliance and Enforcement Guidance
(2023-03)Globally, lead paint is an important source of exposure of children to lead. Lead paint laws are a key tool in protecting human health and the environment from lead. Compliance and enforcement are critical to the effective ... -
2050 Electronic and Electrical Waste Outlook in West Asia
(2023-03)This Outlook provides projections for e-waste generation and challenges of managing e-waste in an economically diverse West Asia region. It also provides a stepwise approach for countries to manage e-waste in an environmentally ... -
World Atlas of Desertification
(Edward Arnold, 1992)This atlas represents the current stage of our understanding of desertification, its extent and its possible solutions. One of the clearest ways to depict a global problem is to show it in an atlas. If it is true that one ... -
Annexes - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(2023-03)This document includes: Annex A. Environment-related SDG targets, indicators, and relevant sub-indicators in the SDG Global Indicator Framework; Annex B. The SDG Regional Groupings; Annex C. Socio-economic and environmental ... -
Executive Summary - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(2023-03)The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Measuring Progress series of reports provides an overview of the progress made in data availability for the 92 environment-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) ... -
Chapter 7: Conclusions and recommendations - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)This report focuses on evaluating interlinkages and trends between major global drivers and marine and freshwater indicators within the SDG indicator framework. Although the progress made in relation to the 92 environment-related ... -
Chapter 6: Data opportunities - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)Big data sources are increasingly being recognized as new and innovative information sources for SDGs (MacFeely 2019; IAEGSDGS 2019; Tam and Van Halderen 2020). Many NSOs are already experimenting with big data in the ... -
Chapter 5: Marine-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)SDG 14 is the dedicated goal towards the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources. This goal includes 10 targets and 10 indicators related directly to marine-related ecosystems. Yet only ... -
Chapter 4: Freshwater-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)Many relationships were identified as significant for freshwater-related ecosystems. This chapter explores the significance of such relationships and whether such relationships are confirmed by scientific evidence. -
Chapter 3: Methodology - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)While the Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs (2021) report focused on understanding the interlinkages through a statistical correlation analysis, the proposed methodology herein will further develop the statistical ... -
Chapter 2: The state of the environment - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)This chapter aims to showcase the progress in data availability in relation to specified SDG indicators. The purpose is not to explain why indicators’ trends are increasing or decreasing. The change in category (that is, ... -
Chapter 1: Background - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)The Measuring Progress series explores the relationship between environmental indicators and economic or social indicators. In this report, data availability for one thematic area was considered to further explore possible ... -
Watch out for Illegal Trade of HCFCs and HFCs: Lessons learnt from the Global Montreal Protocol Award for Customs and Enforcement Officers
(2023-03)This publication provides an analysis of the cases submitted in the context of the Global Montreal Protocol Award for Customs and Enforcement Officers. The Global Award was launched in 2018 by UNEP OzonAction. This Global ... -
Environmental Rule of Law and Human Rights in Asia Pacific: Supporting the Protection of Environmental Human Rights Defenders - Working Paper
(2023-02)This Working Paper presents trends in the application of the environmental rule of law and human rights in Asia Pacific, with special emphasis on the protection of environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs). This Working ... -
Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(2023-03)The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) framework were constructed to interlink economic, environmental and social dimensions. The importance of achieving sustainability relies ... -
Playing for the Planet - Annual Impact Report 2022
(2023-03)The Playing for the Planet Alliance, by UNEP, has gone from strength to strength over the last twelve months. Not only has the Alliance grown, we’ve also seen commitment to decarbonisation and sustainability increase too. ... -
One Atmosphere: An Independent Expert Review on Solar Radiation Modification Research and Deployment
(2023-02)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) convened a multidisciplinary expert panel to undertake a rapid review of the state of scientific research on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) -
Executive Summary - Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening environmental Action in the One Health Response to Antimicrobial Resistance
(2023-02)Global attention to AMR has mainly focused on human health and agriculture sectors, but there is growing evidence that the environment plays a key role in the development, transmission and spread of AMR. The environmental ... -
Key Messages - Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening Environmental Action in the One Health Response to Antimicrobial Resistance
(2023-02)This document addresses the following topics: What are antimicrobials? What is antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? Impact of AMR. AMR and the environment. Climate change and AMR. Biodiversity loss and AMR. Pollution and AMR. ...
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