Browsing UNEP Publications by SDGs "SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation"
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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 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 ... -
Clearing the Waters: A Focus on Water Quality Solutions
(2010)This publication addresses the urgency of controlling pollution and preserving water quality around the world. The past few decades have focused on the importance of water quantity in meeting basic human and ecosystem needs ... -
Company Environmental Reporting : A Measure of the Progress of Business & Industry Towards Sustainable Development - Technical Report No. 24
(1994)Corporate environment reports are quickly becoming a key channel for companies to communicate their environmental performance. Just as important, corporate environment reports are also becoming an effective tool to demonstrate ... -
Consuming Differently, Consuming Sustainability: Behavioural Insights for Policymaking
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)The objective of this publication is to shed light on opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of policies for sustainable consumption in both developed and developing countries. The publication provides evidence-based ... -
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 ... -
Desk study on the environment in Liberia
(UNEP, 2004)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) participated in the post-conflict UN Needs assessment mission to Liberia. The findings of this desk study draw on key environmental information obtained from the Liberian ... -
Dugong : status report and action plans for countries and territories
(UNEP, 2001)The dugong (Dugong dugon) is the only herbivorous mammal that is strictly marine, and is the only extant species in the Family Dugongidae. It is listed as vulnerable to extinction at a global scale by The World Conservation ... -
Earth and Faith : A Book of Reflection for Action
(2000)Reflection on links between faith and environmental protection. -
Economic Valuation of Wastewater: The Cost of Action and the Cost of No Action
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)This book presents the results of an analytical study on the economic valuation for wastewater, comparing the cost of no action versus the cost of effective wastewater management. Although economic valuation of wastewater ... -
Ecosystems for water and food security
(UNEP, 2011)Against the current challenges to enhance food security worldwide, the publication aims at illustrating the importance of healthy ecosystems for the provisioning of key services that contribute to food security. Such ... -
El desarrollo sostenible en la práctica: La aplicación de un enfoque integrado en América Latina y el Caribe
(2016)El propósito de esta publicación es apoyar a los responsables de la formulación de políticas a equilibrar la integración entre los diferentes objetivos de desarrollo, presentando casos prácticos aterrizados a los retos ... -
Emerging Environmental Issues 2013 - A Compilation of Global Environmental Alert Service Bulletins
(2014)GEAS is a mechanism for identifying and communicating early warning information on emerging issues in areas ranging from climate change and ecosystem management to environmental governance and resource efficiency. The ... -
Environment Outlook for the Arab Region: environment for development and human well-being
(UNEP, 2010)The Environment Outlook for the Arab Region (EOAR) report is the first official, comprehensive, and integrated assessment of the state of environment in the Arab region. It is a credible scientific assessment that provides ... -
Environment Outlook in Amazonia – GEO Amazonia
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), 2009)GEO Amazonia is intended to present a vision of Amazonia from the perspective of the Amazonian countries and with the participation of Amazonian stakeholders -
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 Accounting of National Economic Systems: An Analysis of West African Dryland Countries within a Global Context
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2012)The work evaluates implications of countries’ natural resource use on economic systems. Detailed environmental accounting is provided for 134 national economies with a special focus on five dryland countries of the West ... -
Environmental assessment of Ogoniland
(UNEP, 2011)A major new independent scientific assessment, carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), shows that pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the region has penetrated further and deeper than ... -
Environmental indicators for North America
(UNEP, 2006)This report sets out a methodology for selecting and developing potential indicators to portray changes in the environments shared by Canada and the United States.
