UNEP Publications Pre-2023: Recent submissions
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From Pollution to Solution: A Global Assessment of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution - Synthesis
(2021)Key Findings: 1. Marine litter, including plastics and microplastics, has grown drastically and is projected to more than double by 2030. 2. Marine litter and plastics are a grave threat to all marine life and are influencing ... -
Drowning in Plastics: Marine Litter and Plastic Waste Vital Graphics
(2021)This publication aims to provide a complete overview of the global challenges related to marine litter and plastic waste through a combination of condensed descriptions of key thematic areas and graphic illustrations that ... -
From Pollution to Solution: A Global Assessment of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution
(2021)This assessment describes the far-reaching impacts of plastics across the planet and in our oceans. The assessment sets out to address four key questions to help guide future actions: • What can new research and evidence ... -
Responsible Banking: Building Foundations - The first collective progress report of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking signatories
(2021)The report provides an update of signatories’ progress in implementing the principles. Signatories’ progress is assessed according to their fulfilment of three key steps: 1. Analysis of their current impact on people and ... -
Principles and Policy Guidance on Children’s Rights to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment in the ASEAN Region
(2021)The global environmental crisis undermines the fundamental rights of every child in countless ways through the climate emergency, air pollution, lack of access to safe and sufficient water and the rapid decline of biodiversity. ... -
The Role of Business in Moving from Linear to Circular Economies - GEO for Business Brief No. 2
(2021)The analysis presented in this brief shows there is a need for businesses to act, rather than continuing to assume that old business models will remain profitable. Crucial to transforming the global economy towards full ... -
Acknowledgements - GEO for Business Brief No. 3: The Role of Business in Transforming Food Systems
(2021)Acknowledgements document. -
Annex 1 – Transformation Efforts in the Food Industry - GEO for Business Brief No.3: The Role of Business in Transforming Food Systems
(2021)This annex provides examples of the types of transformation sprints that companies are engaged in across the food system. -
The Role of Business in Transforming Food Systems
(2021)Food plays a crucial role in all our lives, not only in supporting our physical and mental health, but also the health of our environment, cultures and economies. While our food systems have evolved in an attempt to provide ... -
Global Chemicals and Waste Indicator Review Document
(2021)The Global Chemicals and Waste Indicator Review Document aims to strengthen the knowledge base of chemicals and hazardous waste and enhance the capacity of selected countries to track progress towards related SDG indicators ... -
Guidelines for Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation into National Adaptation Plans: Supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines
(2021)The Guidelines aim to guide adaptation practitioners at national and local levels on how to take different steps when factoring ecosystems functions and services into countries’ NAP processes and instruments. The Guidelines ... -
Actions on Air Quality: A Global Summary of Policies and Programmes to Reduce Air Pollution
(2021)This global report provides a review of policy actions of Member States per the mandate provided by UNEA Resolution 3/8 on Preventing and reducing air pollution to improve air quality globally. It builds on the United ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Regulating Air Quality: The First Global Assessment of Air Pollution Legislation
(2021)This global study assesses national air quality legislation in 194 States and the European Union (EU) against a model of robust air quality governance developed as part of the research. The model is based on the diversity ... -
Is the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Building a Sustainable Future?: A Snapshot from Latin America and the Caribbean
(2021)The region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has faced some of the worst health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Amid economic and social disruption, inequality in the world’s most unequal continent ... -
Chapter 6. The Latest Frontier: Exotic Consumerism: Illegal Trade in Live Animals - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)Great apes and other live animals comprise a highly pro$table and symbolic aspect of the US$23 billion illegal wildlife trade--the fourth most lucrative black market after drugs, people and arms smuggling – and the live ... -
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 ...
