UNEP Publications Pre-2023: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future - Implications for Business Leaders in Housing and Mobility
(2020)This document highlights and contextualizes findings from the International Resource Panel report Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future. It provides a starting point ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure: Integrated, Systems-level Approaches for Policymakers
(2021)This document aims to promote the adoption of integrated, systems-level approaches to sustainable infrastructure planning, delivery, and management. Recognizing that every country has unique circumstances, it presents ... -
Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review
(2020)This report, which updates the 2017 document by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) entitled The Status of Climate Change Litigation: A Global Review, provides an overview of the current state of climate change ... -
Chapter 2. Framing the Adaptation Gap Report - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021)This chapter highlights some of the basic elements of the longer-term approach in terms of assessing adaptation in the context of climate risks. First, climate risks are discussed in the context of the interlinkages between ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021-01)In the lead-up to the Global Stocktake in 2023, the AGR aims to address three important questions: What are we doing today to adapt? To what extent are we currently reducing climate risks? To what extent will our adaptation ... -
Catalysing Science-Based Policy Action on Sustainable Consumption and Production: The Value-Chain Approach & its Application to Food, Construction and Textiles
(2021)This report, requested by countries at the Fourth meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly, provides an overview of how the value chain approach has been applied to the information of the International Resource ... -
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 ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2020
(2020-11)As in previous years, this report assesses the gap between estimated future global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if countries implement their climate mitigation pledges and the global emission levels from least-cost ... -
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 ... -
Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future
(2020)This report addresses the opportunities for material efficiency in homes and cars of the G7, with results also shown for China and India. We chose to focus the assessment on specific, widely used products because only a ... -
Impacts of Sand and Dust Storms on Oceans: A Scientific Environmental Assessment for Policy Makers
(2020)Sand and dust storms (SDS) are common in deserts and semi-deserts when strong winds blow over dry soils with little or no vegetation. Dust generated by SDS is often raised high into the atmosphere and transported over long ... -
Used Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Light Duty Vehicles - Flow, Scale and Regulation
(2020)This report is a first attempt at gathering, analysing, and presenting an overview of the global trade in used vehicles for the purpose of environmental policymaking. This includes information on the supply chains, scale ... -
Financing Circularity: Demystifying Finance for Circular Economies
(2020)This report offers emerging evidence of the potential to scale up finance to accelerate the shift away from a take-make-waste model of resource use and pollution to a circular economy, and practical steps to embed circularity ... -
Sudan: First State of Environment and Outlook Report 2020: Environment for Peace and Sustainable Development
(2020)The overall objective of the Sudan First State of the Environment and Outlook 2020 Report (SoE) is to document and to assess the current status of the environment in Sudan and to propose scenarios and policy options. ... -
Faith for Earth: A Call for Action
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2020)Faith for Earth: A Call for Action - describes the essential, unshakeable reverence that all religions have for creation and nature, and introduces the world’s major life support systems. We hope the book will give you ... -
Assessment of Options for Strengthening the Science-policy Interface at the International Level for the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste
(2020)This report seeks to facilitate and inform discussions on strengthening the science-policy interface for chemicals and waste management and thus support and promote science-based local, national, regional and global action ... -
Greening the Blue Report 2018: The UN System's Environment Footprint and Efforts to Reduce It
(2018)The UN System is committed to improving resource efficiency, achieving climate neutrality by 2020 and internalising the Sustainable Development Goals.