Browsing UNEP Publications by SDGs "SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions"
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Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements
(2010-10)The publication intends to ensure that existing compliance and non-compliance regimes are documented in one source to assist and support any future negotiations on the revision of existing regimes or the creation of new ones. -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild Better - Full Report
(2020)The Covid-19 pandemic is increasing poverty and threatening food security. Governments around the world have already invested more than $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could ... -
COVID19 and Impacts on Environmental Human Rights Defenders and Environmental Protection in Southeast Asia
(2022-03)This report examines the positive and negative impacts of the decrees, laws and other government policies on environmental rights that were either enacted in response to COVID-19 or passed during the pandemic. This rapid ... -
Côte d’Ivoire Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)The Government of Côte d’Ivoire, which came into power after the 2010 elections, made a formal request for UNEP to undertake a post crisis environmental assessment. In response, UNEP carried out a Post-Conflict Environmental ... -
Democratic People's Republic of Korea: State of the Environment Report
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2003)The objectives of the DPR Korea State of the Environment ( SoE) report are: identify the key environmental issues that act as barriers to attain sustainable development, and provide policy settings and options that can be ... -
Depleted uranium in Serbia and Montenegro: post-conflict assessment in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(UNEP, 2002)The potential environmental risks posed by Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons have been a widely debated issue. In autumn 2001, as a follow-up to its earlier work on DU in Kosovo, UNEP organized a scientific field mission to ... -
Development and Harmonization of Environmental Laws Volume 5 - Report on the Development and Harmonization of Laws on Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals
(1999)Environmental law is an essential tool for the governance and management of the environment and natural resources. It is the foundation of national and regional policies and actions to ensure that the use of natural resources ... -
Development and Harmonization of Environmental Laws Volume 7: Report on the Development and Harmonization of Laws Relating to Forestry
(1999)Environmental law is an essential tool for the governance and management of the environment and natural resources. It is the foundation of national and regional policies and actions to ensure that the use of natural resources ... -
Disarmament, environment and sustainable development: A Time for Action
(1986)The origins of the present arms race are many and complex. To a large extent they can be found in the political and socio-economic differences between the countries from the two groups of States which later came to form ... -
Elaboration of Options for Enhancing Synergies among Biodiversity related Conventions
(2016-03)The options for enhancing synergies between the biodiversity-related conventions (focusing on the global level) set forth in the present paper respond to calls by the governing bodies of conventions, theUnited Nations and ... -
Enforcement of and Compliance with MEAs: The Experiences of CITES, Montreal Protocol and Basel Convention Volume I
(1999)This report is a contribution to the global evaluation of the impacts of a piecemeal implementation and of violations of international agreements on the environment, in particular, the implementation of the Montreal Protocol ... -
Enforcement of and Compliance with MEAs: The Experiences of CITES, Montreal Protocol and Basel Convention Volume II
(1999)This report is a contribution to the global evaluation of the impacts of a piecemeal implementation and of violations of international agreements on the environment, in particular, the implementation of the Montreal Protocol ... -
Enhancing cooperation among the seven biodiversity related agreements and conventions at national level using the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
(2016-04)This paper builds on UNEP actions promoting synergies and cooperation among the biodiversity Conventions, including the ‘Options Paper’ that has been published in 2016 and various Decisions of governing bodies of the ... -
Environment Information System: user manual
(UNEP, 2005)The objective of the Africa Environment Outlook Environment Information System (AEO-EIS) is to act as a standard information system for African nations to acquire, process, and disseminate information relevant to sustainable ... -
Environment Outlook in the Amazonia - GEO Amazonia
(UNEP, 2009)Over a decade, UNEP has carried out a series of integrated environmental assessments, called GEO, aimed at providing comprehensive, scientifically credible, and policy-relevant assessments on the interaction between ... -
Environment, religion and culture in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)Critical action is needed by the international community to address urgent and increasing environmental degradation, and related challenges of social and economic unsustainability. Religion and culture can significantly ... -
Environmental aspects of Selected Non-ferrous Metals (Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Au) Ore Mining: A Technical Guide - Technical Report Series No. 5
(1991)This is the fifth publication in a new Technical Series that regroups the Guidelines, Overviews, Technical Reviews, and Workshop Proceedings previously published by UNEP IE/PAC. As before, the Technical Series aims to meet ... -
Environmental Courts & Tribunals - A Guide for Policy Makers
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)With over 1,200 environmental courts and tribunals now operating worldwide at the national and state/provincial level, this guide shares concise, practical advice and best practices to make them more effective, updating ... -
Environmental Courts and Tribunals – 2021: A Guide for Policy Makers
(2022-07)This UNEP 2021 ECT Guide is designed to provide an overview for policymakers, judges, academics, and stakeholders who are interested in improving the adjudication of environmental disputes. It identifies features of ECTs, ... -
Environmental Displacement: Human mobility in the Anthropocene - Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2017)The interlacing trends of climate change, population growth, rising consumption, large infrastructure projects and environmental degradation may lead to greater numbers of people displaced in future. This is particularly ...
