Browsing UNEP Publications by SDGs "SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions"
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Action on the Environment: The role of the United Nations
(1989)This pamphlet is meant to explain briefly how the UN system operates as regards the environment, and to put those opera-tions into perspective in terms of the rapidly changing percep-tions of what 'environmental action' ... -
Activities of UNEP in the Field of Environmental Law in 1991
(1992)Since its creation in 1972, UNEP has been very active in the development of environmental law. UNEP can point to the fact that under its auspices tour major global binding agreements - the 1985 Vienna Convention for the ... -
Africa environment information network: implementation guidelines
(UNEP, 2004)These guidelines were developed to assist in the implementation of AEIN at the national level. They are designed to meet specific national priorities within a consistent regional framework using a harmonized approach. The ... -
Africa Environment Information Network: stakeholders meeting report
(UNEP, 2003)The Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN) initiative has evolved as a direct response to political and technical needs expressed by the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). A central objective ... -
Africa Waste Management Outlook
(2018)Following the success of the Global Waste Management Outlook, IETC has been leading the development of a series of regional and thematic WM outlook. The Africa WM Outlook is part of this series and looks at the continent's ... -
African Environment Outlook: Case Studies: Human Vulnerability due to Environmental Change in Africa - Executive Summary
(2003)This report containing case studies on environmental change, human vulnerability and security, brings into focus many of the issues that are highlighted in the AEO report, by providing concrete examples of the impact of ... -
After the Tsunami sustainable building: guidelines for South-East Asia
(UNEP, 2007)The Tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 affected a dozen Indian Ocean countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India and Maldives, Malaysia and Myanmar, with a death toll reportedly exceeding 250,000 and ... -
After the Tsunami: rapid environmental assessment
(UNEP, 2005)This report is the product of close cooperation between UNEP and national environmental authorities and experts. It provides a preliminary ground-level look at the tsunami's impact on various sectors of the regions ... -
Assessing Environmental Impacts: A Global Review of Legislation
(2018)This report provides an overview of the current status of national legislation and institutional arrangements of relevance to EIAs and SEAs across the globe, as well as emerging issues and trends. It does this primarily ... -
Assessing Global Resource Use: A System Approach to Resource Efficiency and Pollution Reduction
(2017)This report focuses on the state and trends of ‘material’ resource use (biomass, fossil fuels, metals and non-metallic minerals), with further types of resources (land/water) and greenhouse gas emissions remaining as major ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Changing Finance to Catalyze Transformation: How Financial Institutions can Accelerate the Transition to an Environmentally Sustainable Economy - GEO for Business Brief 6
(2021)The brief will address how financial services can be realigned to play a transformational role in achieving the environmental dimensions of the SDGs and related international agreements. It aims to inform, challenge, and ... -
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, ... -
Chapter 3: Methodology - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)While the Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs (2021) report focused on understanding the interlinkages through a statistical correlation analysis, the proposed methodology herein will further develop the statistical ... -
Chapter 6: Data opportunities - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)Big data sources are increasingly being recognized as new and innovative information sources for SDGs (MacFeely 2019; IAEGSDGS 2019; Tam and Van Halderen 2020). Many NSOs are already experimenting with big data in the ... -
Climate Crisis: The Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies
(1987)Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland, organized and financed by the United Nations Environment ... -
A Commitment to the Future: Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1992)Between 1974 and 1992 I gave more than 600 statements and lectures on various aspects of the environment to governmental meetings, scientific conferences, international gatherings and non-governmental organizations. This ... -
Communication to Combat Forest Crime in the Lower Mekong and in China: A Handbook Based on the Findings of the Knowledge, Attitude, Practices Survey on Illegal Logging and Illegal Forest Trade in the Lower Mekong and in China
(2022-10)The Lower Mekong region – consisting of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam – is an area of vast forests and is a biodiversity hotspot of global significance. The region hosts a diverse array of forest habitats, ... -
Compendium of Judicial Decisions on Matters Related to Environment: National Decisions - Volume II
(2001)This publication was developed in pursuance of the aims of agenda 21.
