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Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing - Executive Summary (Coming soon)
(2024-07)This Navigating New Horizons report outlines a process focused on planetary health and human wellbeing—an intentional framing to expand the range of issues and informed views that typically shape UNEP’s work. Why? To ensure ... -
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Handbook on indicator 17.14.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals
(2024-07)The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, is a plan of action for people, the planet and prosperity, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; see ... -
Navigating New Horizons: A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing (Coming soon)
(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
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 ... -
Handbook for the Fifth Montevideo Programme on the Progressive Development and Implementation of Environmental Law
The Montevideo Programme V secretariat has developed this digital handbook that highlights the Programme’s objectives, activities and outcomes in order to raise awareness and enhance understanding of the Programme by ... -
Assessing Regional and National Capacities for Monitoring and Research of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air and Water
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 ... -
Promoting a Sustainable Agriculture and Food Sector in China
The concept of TEEB aligns with China's pursuit of effective Green-to-Gold transformations. Among the national innovation bases practicing 'Green is Gold,' Tengchong City in Yunnan Province was chosen as the focal area for ... -
The Green Economy Progress Measurement Framework [3rd Edition]: Accelerating the recovery through the transition towards climate-neutral economies
(2024-05)The Third Edition of the Green Economy Progress Measurement Framework introduces novel and innovative elements that push forward the understanding and advancement of the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) transition. This working ... -
Guidebook on Mainstreaming Gender in the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-05)This Guidebook on Mainstreaming Gender in the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (hereinafter referred to as the guidebook) has been developed to help advance the agenda of gender equality and women’s empowerment under ... -
Results of Air Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants - Sectoral Report
The Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) under the Stockholm Convention on POPs is a tool that collects information on POPs in the environment and in humans. The GMP is a key component of the effectiveness evaluation of the ... -
Results of Water Monitoring on Persistent Organic Pollutants - Sectoral Report
This report summarizes and assesses the results from four regional UNEP/GEF GMP2 projects coordinated and implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to support implementation of the global monitoring ... -
Wasted Air: Impact of Landfill Fires on Air Pollution and People’s Health in Serbia - Working Paper. Air Pollution Series
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)Insufficient handling of municipal waste in the Republic of Serbia results in severe repercussions for both public health and overall well-being. The consequences of waste accumulation in unsanitary landfills, which are ... -
Continuing Regional Support for the POPs Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention in the Asian Region - Regional Report
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are characterized by certain toxic properties which include resistance to degradation in the environment, bioaccumulation across food chains and long-range transportation though air, ... -
Continuing Regional Support for the POPs Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention in the African Region - Regional Report
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are characterized by certain toxic properties which include resistance to degradation in the environment, bioaccumulation across food chains and long-range transportation though air, ... -
Continuing Regional Support for the POPs Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention in the Latin American and Caribbean Region - Regional Report
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are characterized by certain toxic properties which include resistance to degradation in the environment, bioaccumulation across food chains and long-range transportation though air, ... -
Continuing Regional Support for the POPs Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention in the Pacific Islands Region - Regional Report
This report addresses activities and results in support of the global monitoring plan (GMP) as stipulated by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and coordinated by the United Nations Environment ... -
Strengthening Environmental Management and Reducing Pollution Risks from the Oil and Gas Sector in Uganda
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 ... -
Resilience for All: Enabling Transformative Implementation - 8th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum: Summary Report
Over the past two decades, Resilience has served as a unifying theme for the APAN Forums. The past years have seen significant efforts towards generating knowledge and information on climate change adaptation at the global ...