Browsing UNEP Publications by Topic "Nature Action and biodiversity"
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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 ... -
Chapter 2. Zoonoses: Blurred Lines of Emergent Disease and Ecosystem Health - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)The 20th century was a period of unprecedented ecological change, with dramatic reductions in natural ecosystems and biodiversity and equally dramatic increases in people and domestic animals. Never before have so many ... -
Chapter 4. Loss and Damage: Unavoidable Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)Anthropogenic climate change is underway and will continue for the foreseeable future. It is manifesting more rapidly and more intensely than many expected.1,2 The most recent global assessment by the Intergovernmental ... -
Chapter 5. Poisoned Chalice: Toxin Accumulation in Crops in the Era of Climate Change - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)Extreme climatic conditions reduce yields and increase postharvest losses. They also trigger biophysical reactions in plants in response to environmental stresses. These reactions include concentrating chemical compounds ... -
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 ... -
GEO-6 for Youth
(2021)GEO-6 states that unless we radically and urgently change our economies and our societies, we will not be able to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.One of the greatest challenges facing young ... -
Governing Coastal Resources: Implications for a Sustainable Blue Economy
(2021)Coastal resources - including fish, minerals and energy - are critical to people, nature and the economy, and are a focus for the emerging sustainable blue economy agenda. Whilst there is no globally agreed definition of ... -
Governing Coastal Resources: Implications for a Sustainable Blue Economy - Summary for Policymakers
(2021)This report identifies the numerous pathways through which land-based activities generate impacts on coastal resources, acknowledging that they can differ, depending on the location, type, condition and resilience of ... -
Greening the Blue Report 2020: The UN System's Environmental Footprint and Efforts to Reduce it
(2020)The report is composed of two elements: a brochure and entity-specific webpages. This brochure focuses on the UN System data as a whole; whereas, on www.greeningtheblue.org each contributing entity provides information ... -
Inclusive Wealth of Pakistan: The Case for Investing in Natural Capital and Restoration
(2021)This report provides state of art analysis of the productive base of the economy since 1990. It estimates all capital stocks at the regional level for Pakistan, and as such, provides a holistic measure of sustainability. ... -
Integrated Approaches in Action: A Companion to the Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure
(2021)Integrated approaches to sustainable infrastructure have been well conceptualized, but good examples at the systems-level are less commonly found around the world. With “mega trends” emerging in investment, natural resource ... -
Learning to Manage Land Sustainably with Climate Change Mitigation Co-benefits: Lessons from the Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Mitigation Co-benefits (SLM-CCMC) Project
(2021)The Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Mitigation Co-benefits (SLM-CCMC) project used and improved on carbon and greenhouse gas accounting tools to make it easier for SLM practitioners to estimate the climate ... -
Making Peace with Nature: A Scientific Blueprint to Tackle the Climate, Biodiversity and Pollution Emergencies
(2021-02)This report presents a flexible scientific blueprint for how the climate change, biodiversity and pollution emergencies can be tackled jointly within the framework of the SDGs. The first of its kind, this report gathers ... -
Monitoring Plastics in Rivers and Lakes: Guidelines for the Harmonization of Methodologies
(2021)The purpose of this report is to provide guidelines for the assessment of plastic contamination, from macro- to microplastics, in freshwater environments. It provides the most current procedures for monitoring and ... -
Progress on Ambient Water Quality: Tracking SDG 6 Series - Global Indicator 6.3.2 Updates and Acceleration Needs
(2021)Through the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 (IMI-SDG6), the United Nations seeks to support countries in monitoring water- and sanitation-related issues within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for ... -
Progress on Freshwater Ecosystems: Tracking SDG 6 Series – Global Indicator 6.6.1 Updates and Acceleration Needs
(2021)In 2017, with the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development firmly under way, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reached out to Member States to request – for the first time – national data on ... -
Progress on Integrated Water Resources Management: Tracking SDG 6 series - Global Indicator 6.5.1 Updates and Acceleration Needs
(2021)This report, produced as part of the UN-Water-led Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6, emphasizes the scale of the challenge and identifies where and how progress can be accelerated. UNEP is committed to supporting ... -
State of Finance for Nature: Tripling Investments in Nature-based Solutions by 2030
(2021)The main purpose of the report is to provide up-to-date information about public and private sector finance that is channelled to activities and assets that can be considered NbS and to present estimates of the future ... -
Understanding the State of the Ocean: A Global Manual on Measuring SDG 14.1.1, SDG 14.2.1 and SDG 14.5.1
(2021)This report aims to provide guidance on how to bring together traditional monitoring techniques with new technologies and data science in order to better monitoring our oceans in the context of the SDGs. The report focuses ...
