UNEP Publications Pre-2023: Recent submissions
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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 3. Microplastics: Trouble in the Food Chain - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)As the world’s demand for plastic materials continues to grow, management of plastic waste will remain a global challenge. In 2014, global plastic production exceeded 311 million metric tons, a 4.0 per cent increase over ... -
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 1. The Financial Sector: A Linchpin to Advance Sustainable Development - UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2016)The UNEP Frontiers 2016 edition presents six emerging issues. It highlights, for example, that the global significance of the financial sector should not confine itself only to enhancing global economic growth, but also ... -
The State of Food Waste in West Asia
(2021)The State of Food Waste in West Asia report was commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme West Asia Office. It is timely coming after the publication of the Food Waste Index 2021 report (UNEP 2021) and dives ... -
UNEP-IETC Annual Report 2020
(2021-07)UNEP-IETC released its 2020 Annual Report, highlighting the organization’s work on issues around waste management systems that are impacting the environment. It also introduces the knowledge products, in-country supports, ... -
Policy Options to Eliminate Additional Marine Plastic Litter By 2050 Under the G20 Osaka Blue Ocean Vision: An International Resource Panel Think Piece
(2021)The Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, agreed under the Japanese G20 presidency in 2019, voluntarily commits G20 countries to “reduce additional pollution by marine plastic litter to zero by 2050 through a comprehensive life-cycle ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Rethinking Single-Use Plastic Products in Travel & Tourism: Impacts, Management Practices and Recommendations
(2021)The convenience, functionality and low prices of plastic products, including single-use plastic products (SUPPs), have made them an essential part of the global economy. However, the prevailing linear plastic economic ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs
(2021)This Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs informs on the 92 environment-related SDG indicators, analyzes the progress made in achieving the SDG targets and identifies data gaps. The statistical approach uses simple ... -
Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions
(2021)The assessment will highlight the critical role that cutting methane emissions, including from the fossil fuel industry, will play in slowing the rate of global warming. Cutting human-caused methane by 45% this decade would ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Food Waste Index Report 2021
(2021)Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 (SDG 12.3) captures a commitment to halve food waste at the retail and consumer level and to reduce food loss across supply chains. This Food Waste Index Report aims to advance progress ... -
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 ... -
Addressing Single-use Plastic Products Pollution Using a Life Cycle Approach
(2021)In response to the request by Member States at the Fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly in March 2019[1], the report “ Addressing Single-Use Plastic Products Pollution using a Life Cycle Approach” describes: a) ...
