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Core Human Rights Principles for Private Conservation Organizations and Funders
(2024-12)The international community is grappling with an unprecedented loss of biological diversity—a crisis that directly impacts both biodiversity and human rights. The degradation of biodiversity significantly impairs the ... -
Mediterranean Quality Status Report: The State of the Mediterranean Sea and Coast from 2018-2023
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-12)Monitoring and assessment of the marine and coastal environment have been central to the mandate of the MAP system since its establishment in 1975 as the first regional action plan under the UN Environment Programme’s ... -
Growing the Green: How and why restoration finance needs to quadruple by 2030 - State of Finance for Nature - Restoration Finance Report
(2024-12)To support implementation of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, this report focuses on finance flows and investment needs for restoration. Ecosystem restoration is based on “the process of halting and reversing ... -
Nature-based Solutions for Peace: Emerging Practice and Options for Policymakers
(2024-12)Facing acute pressures from the combination of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, policymakers around the world have been paying increasing attention to Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as part of their development ... -
Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas: The State of the World’s Peatlands in Maps - Visualizing global threats and opportunities for peatland conservation, restoration, and sustainable management
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)Building on the findings of the Global Peatlands Assessment (GPA), the Atlas reveals the status of global peatlands through a series of maps that highlight their distribution and features on a continental scale, identifying ... -
Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)This Assessment presents an updated emissions budget, new projections of ozone, climate and air quality impacts under different scenarios, and the most recent evaluations of effectiveness and costs of abatement measures ... -
Caucasus Environment Outlook - Second edition
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-11)The second edition of the Caucasus Environment Outlook (CEO-2) emphasizes in its nine chapters the importance of regional environmental monitoring through a participatory and consultative approach. It explores the latest ... -
From Grey to Green: Better Data to Finance Nature in Cities - State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2024
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-10)The State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2024 report: From Grey to Green: Better data to finance nature in cities, highlights the need for better data and tools to help cities integrate Nature based Solutions (NbS) into ... -
Institutional Capacity Needs Assessment towards Strengthening Sustainable Ocean Governance in Ghana
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-10)The main objective of the Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) are as follows: • To identify the key capacity needs of the Environment Directorate in the MESTI, EPA and LUSPA in carrying out their relevant mandates. • To provide ... -
Training Report: Capacity Building on POPs Monitoring in Biota and Abiotic Matrices in the Africa, Asia, Pacific and GRULAC Regions
(2024-09)Article 16 of the Stockholm Convention requires the Conference of the Parties to evaluate the effectiveness of the Convention, including a Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) to collect comparable and consistent data on ... -
Progress on Water-related Ecosystems: Mid-term Status of SDG Indicator 6.6.1 and Acceleration Needs with a Special Focus on Biodiversity
(2024-08)This report shines a light on the state of freshwater ecosystems today. Through EO data we can observe when and where ecosystems are degraded and although no comprehensive suite of data exist for each and every ecosystem ... -
Synthesis Report on the Road Map for Securing Conditions for Sustainable Monitoring of POPs
(2024-08)The extensive knowledge and experience acquired through years of monitoring POPs and activities implemented to strengthen the capacities, provide a robust foundation for securing sustainable conditions in future ... -
Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-07)To help navigate current and future uncertainty and disruptive change, while effectively delivering on its mandate, UNEP has been implementing an institutionalized approach to strategic foresight and horizon scanning with ... -
Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Horizon scanning of opportunities & risks
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-06)This report specifically delves into how digital technologies can be harnessed to manage environmental and natural resource risks that contribute to insecurity and social conflict, as well as the opportunities they present ... -
Environmental impact of the conflict in Gaza: Preliminary assessment of environmental impacts
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-06)This Preliminary Assessment was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in response to an official request from the State of Palestine for an assessment of the environmental impacts of the conflict in ... -
Raising ambition, accelerating action: Towards enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions for forests
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-06)Pledges to reduce deforestation and pledges to financially support this transition from developed countries, are insufficient to halt deforestation by 2030. This report finds that commitments within the Nationally Determined ... -
Assessing Regional and National Capacities for Monitoring and Research of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air and Water
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-05)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions, and with support provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented ... -
Strengthening Environmental Management and Reducing Pollution Risks from the Oil and Gas Sector in Uganda
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)In 2017, UNEP undertook an institutional capacity needs assessment (CNA) to evaluate environmental governance and management within the oil and gas sector in Uganda and developed a draft CNA report. An update to this ... -
Global Bioeconomy Assessment: Coordinated Efforts of Policy, Innovation, and Sustainability for a Greener Future
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)The bioeconomy, also known as the bio-based economy, refers to the economic activity involving the use of biotechnology and biomass in producing goods, services or energy. It aims to reduce the dependence on fossil ... -
Green economic recovery: Mobilizing investments towards a low-emission, climate-resilient economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)The project "Green Economic Recovery: Mobilizing investments towards a low-emission and climate-resilient economy in Latin America and the Caribbean" aimed to support selected LAC countries (Argentina, Costa Rica, ...
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