Browsing UNEP Publications by SDGs "SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production"
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Assessing Global Resource Use: A System Approach to Resource Efficiency and Pollution Reduction - Summary for Policymakers
(2017)This interim report of the International Resource Panel provides a first glimpse at a new evidence base that can inform precisely this kind of integrated policymaking. It presents up-to-date information on material resources ... -
Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal Stocks & Recycling Rates
(2011)This booklet summarizes the first two reports of the Global Metals Flows Group - Metal Stocks in Society: Scientific Synthesis and The Recycling Rates of Metals: A Status Report. UNEP's International Resource Panel for ... -
Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production: Priority Products and Materials
(2010)This report focuses not on the effects of environmental pressure, but on its causes. It describes pressures as resulting from economic activities. These activities are pursued for a purpose, to satisfy consumption. ... -
Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production: Priority Products and Materials - Summary
(2010)This report prepared by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management assesses best available science on the environmental and resource impacts of production and consumption. The assessment report identifies ... -
Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy
(2014)This report advocates placing REDD+ into a larger planning framework that should involve multiple influences (especially those driving deforestation, albeit sometimes inadvertently). This framework would go beyond forests ... -
Building the Foundations for Sustainable Nutrient Management. A publication of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management
(2010)This booklet focuses on the use, effects and management of two key nutrients - nitrogen and phosphorous. Together they play an important role in the global and local sustainable development agendas. On the one hand, their ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Addis Ababa
(UNEP, 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Dakar
(UNEP, 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Dakar, Senegal, that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the lens ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Ibadan
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Ibadan, Nigeria that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the lens ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kampala
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Kampala, Uganda, that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the lens ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kathmandu
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on peri-urban agriculture in the Kathmandu Valley. This assessment locates peri-urban agriculture within larger, ongoing change occurring in the Kathmandu Valley's ... -
Building Urban Resilience: Assessing Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Tamale
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2014)This report presents the findings of a knowledge assessment on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) for the city of Tamale, Ghana, that was conducted in 2012. It examines the state of UPA in the city through the lens of ... -
Capacity building for sustainable development: an overview of UNEP environmental capacity development initiatives
(UNEP, 2002)This publication details the broad scope of UNEP's capacity building for wise environmental management. -
Caribbean Environment Outlook
(, 1999)The Caribbean Environment Outlook (CEO) is part of a UNEP project to produce state of the environment assessments for the countries of the Caribbean, Western Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands. The objective of the CEO is ... -
Carpathians Environment Outlook, 2007
(UNEP, 2007)This publication is an integrated assessment on the state of, and trend related to, the environment of the Carpathian Mountains. -
Casebook on innovative activities for achieving sustainable development In Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2015)The casebook shares not only lessons from project innovations and implementation, but successful initial and long-term project results in pilot communities. It identifi es an array of crucial project factors, highlighting ... -
Catalysing Science-Based Policy Action on Sustainable Consumption and Production: The Value-Chain Approach & its Application to Food, Construction and Textiles
(2021)This report, requested by countries at the Fourth meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly, provides an overview of how the value chain approach has been applied to the information of the International Resource ... -
Changing production patterns: learning from the experience of national cleaner production centres
(UNEP, 2002)Guidelines to establish cleaner production centres. Topics include: Setting up an NCPC, NCPC activities, integrating cleaner Production, financial sustainability, and frequently asked questions. -
Chapter 1. The Financial Sector: A Linchpin to Advance Sustainable Development - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)The UNEP Frontiers 2016 edition presents six emerging issues. It highlights, for example, that the global significance of the financial sector should not confine itself only to enhancing global economic growth, but also ... -
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, ...