Browsing UNEP Publications Pre-2023 by Title
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Share the Road: Investment in Walking and Cycling Road Infrastructure
Investment in Walking and Cycling Road Infrastructure -
Sick Water: The Central Role of Wastewater Management in Sustainable Development - A Rapid Response Assessment
With global action and positive momentum towards improving access to safe water and sanitation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), and the UN Secretary General's ... -
SIDS-FOCUSED Green Economy: An Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have placed sustainable development prominently on their agenda for twenty years, since the 1992 Earth Summit recognised the special case of SIDS. The concept of the Green Economy is ... -
Single-Use Face Masks and their Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
(2022-06)This study by UNEP and the Life Cycle Initiative, reviews five scientific Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) on face-masks to draw conclusions on which among the available alternatives, single-use or reusable, have the lowest ... -
Single-use Supermarket Food Packaging and its Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
Food packaging’s ever-increasing reliance on single-use plastic formats along with the persistence of plastics in the environment, adds to the long-reaching – and as yet poorly characterized – impacts of plastic pollution ... -
Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook
(2019)The Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook provides an assessment of solid, liquid and gaseous waste generated in 58 Small Island Developing States. It also recommends a series of initiatives that can be ... -
A Snapshot of the World’s Water Quality: Towards a Global Assessment - Executive Summaries
(2016)People and ecosystems require both an adequate quantity of water as well as an adequate quality of water. Therefore, it is urgent to assess where water quality is inadequate or under threat and to incorporate the need for ... -
Solar Solutions: Bridging the Energy Gap for Off-Grid Settlements - Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2017)Recent years have seen an increased popularity of small distributed solar energy systems in low-income communities in Africa and Asia, where at least 95 per cent of the off-grid population reside. Advances in LED technology ... -
The Sound Management of Chemicals and Wastes in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals: Links between the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(2017)This publication outlines the links between existing and proposed goals, targets and indicators of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, focusing on the key issues ... -
Sourcebook of Opportunities for Enhancing Cooperation among the Biodiversity Related Conventions at National and Regional Levels
The Sourcebook focuses on what can be achieved through cooperation among those implementing the Biodiversity-related Conventions at national and regional levels. It provides practical examples, checklists, lessons learnt ... -
South Asia Environment Outlook 2009
This report presents current information regarding the present state of and outlook for the region's marine and coastal environment, and is intended to enhance COBSEA's activities on information management in support of ... -
Sports for Nature: Setting a Baseline – Handbook
(2022-11)The handbook demonstrates how sport has the potential to be a critical partner for change. It highlights the urgency and dependency of sport on nature, demonstrating the opportunities already underway – with guidance and ... -
Sri Lanka post-tsunami environmental assessment
The Tsunami disaster of the 26th December 2004 was the worst natural calamity to have befallen Sri Lanka since historical times. It caused the loss of tens of thousands of lives, property and livelihood damage costing many ... -
Standards and codes of practice to eliminate dependency on Halons: handbook of good practices in the Halon sector
(UNEP, 2001)Use smart policies to achieve Halon management goals. This handbook explains the importance of standards and codes of practice in the phase out process and provides guidance on how to use those instruments to support the ... -
The State of Biodiversity in Africa: A Mid-term Review of Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
The report identifies opportunities and challenges in implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 in Africa and looks ahead to actions which need to be taken by national governments and other decision makers ... -
State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific: A Mid-Term Review of Progress Towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
(2016)This report builds on and complements the global GBO-4 assessment. This is the second edition of The State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific report and serves as a near mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi ... -
State of Biodiversity in West Asia: A Mid-Term Review of Progress Towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
(2016)This report draws on a set of regional indicators, information from fifth national reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), other government reports, case studies and published literature, to provide a ... -
State of Finance for Nature 2022 - Time to Act: Doubling Investment by 2025 and Eliminating Nature-negative Finance Flows
The State of Finance for Nature (SFN) 2022 report quantifies public and private finance flows to nature-based solutions (NbS) to tackle global challenges related to biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change. ... -
The State of Finance for Nature in the G20: Leading by Example to Close the Investment Gap
The State of Finance for Nature in the G20’ report attempts to capture the complete amount and future need for G20 country spending on nature-based solutions assets and activities. It reveals that current G20 investments ... -
State of Finance for Nature: Tripling Investments in Nature-based Solutions by 2030
The main purpose of the report is to provide up-to-date information about public and private sector finance that is channelled to activities and assets that can be considered NbS and to present estimates of the future ...