Browsing UNEP Publications by SDGs "SDG 15 - Life on Land"
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Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable Supply
(2014)This report explores how the management of land-based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the ... -
Assessment of environmental hot Spots in Iraq
(UNEP, 2005)It is estimated that Iraq has several thousand contaminated sites resulting from a combination of general industrial activities, military activities, post-conflict damage and looting. Many of the sites are derelict and ... -
Assessment of Land-Based Sources and Activities Affecting the Marine, Coastal and Associated Freshwater Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 172
(UNEP, 1999)Regional Seas Reports and Studies. -
Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors
(2010-10)This publication underscores that environmental audits, such as those conducted by Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI) can and do play a crucial and vital role with regard to the implementation of MEAs and can evaluate whether ... -
Awards for improving the coastal environment: the blue flag example
(UNEP, 2006)This publication describes how tourism can be better integrated with the coastal environment through an award scheme that has done much to improve environmental awareness in coastal areas. The first part of the publication ... -
Bamboo biodiversity: Africa, Madagascar and the Americas
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)Bamboos are distinct and fascinating plants, with many values and uses, ranging from construction to irrigation systems, musical instruments to food and fuel. But we still know relatively little about most bamboos in the ... -
Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate
(2021)We can no longer deny that we are a part of our environment, which we are degrading at an alarming rate. In order to embark on a more sustainable pathway, we need both to conserve and restore ecosystems. This report makes ... -
Benefits of Forest Ecosystems in Zambia and the Role of REDD+ in a Green Economy Transformation
(2015)The aim of this study was to undertake a rapid assessment of the value and role of forests in the Zambian economy based on available information in order to inform policy de- cisions on forest management and the implementation ... -
Biofuels Vital Graphics: Powering a Green Economy
(2011)Issues related to biofuels are complex and interconnected: they require solid planning and balancing of objectives and trade-offs. Safeguards are needed and special emphasis should be given to options that help mitigate ... -
Biological Diversity and the Urban Environment - Ecosystem Conservation Group Issue Paper
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2001)At its eighteenth session, held on 9 July 1998 at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAQ), in Rome, the Ecosystem Conservation Group (ECG) decided that the issue of biological ... -
Blue harvest: inland fisheries as an ecosystem service
(UNEP, 2010)This report focuses on the importance of inland fisheries as an ecosystem service that significantly contributes to food production and livelihoods in many parts of the world but at the same time depends upon a sustained ... -
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 Natural Capital: How REDD+ can Support a Green Economy: Summary for Policy Makers
(UNEP, 2014)This summary report highlights key findings from the report of the international resource panel: building natural capital: How REDD+ can support a Green Economy. It should be read in conjunction with the full report. -
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 ... -
Caribbean Environment Outlook: special edition for the International Meeting for the 10-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action
(UNEP, 2005)The Caribbean Environment Outlook assesses the state of the environment in the Caribbean SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States in terms of the environmental concerns identified in the BPOA and the driving forces of the ... -
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. -
Central Asia Waste Management Outlook
(2017)Central Asia is transforming itself from a region bogged down by mining and industrial waste legacies and poor municipal waste management to a safer and more pleasant place to live through site clean-ups and increasingly ... -
Chapter 1. Synthetic Biology: Re-engineering the environment - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)The world is facing unprecedented challenges to a healthy and sustainable future. Habitat destruction, invasive species, and overexploitation are contributing to immense biodiversity loss. Unsustainable, extractive industry ... -
Chapter 2. Ecological Connectivity: A Bridge to Preserving Biodiversity - Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)Nature was once vast and boundless, but in an industrialized, 21st century world, this is no longer the case. Across the globe, landscapes and seascapes are becoming more fragmented. Fragmentation is typically a symptom ... -
Chapter 2. Wildfires under Climate Change: A Burning Issue - Frontiers 2022 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-02)Wildfires are a natural feature of the Earth system, necessary for the functioning of many ecosystems. Interactions between vegetation and climate over extended periods establish a particular pattern of wildfire recurrence ...
