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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, the issue of gender in waste management has received increasing attention, highlighting that waste production and management is not gender neutral. In fact, existing gender inequalities, responsibilities ...

This report takes stock of the ongoing experiences related to gender-responsive renewable energy programmes as well as the consolidated wealth of knowledge and lessons learned in this field. The purpose of this review is ...

The GGEO provides an overview of current knowledge and gives a first set of answers to the following key policy-relevant questions: • What social forces are producing the changes seen in the environment, and are they ...

This document provides a synthesis of the integrated assessment studies conducted in the third, most recent, round of country projects commissioned by UNEP, which focused on the rice sector. Over the past two years, UNEP ...

In this think piece, we recognize that land is one of Earth’s most important and limiting resources, that its inefficient and inappropriate use continues to result in degradation, and that degradation does and will have ...

The report calls for moving beyond the established paradigm of the ‘Social License to Operate’, towards a new governance reference point that enables public, private and other relevant actors in the extractive sector to ...

If the public is well-informed about environmental issues through the media, properly consulted, and encouraged to participate in decision-making, it is likely to accept the need for change quickly—and, in doing so, support ...