Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by SDGs "SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities"
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Assessing Environmental Impacts: A Global Review of Legislation
(2018)This report provides an overview of the current status of national legislation and institutional arrangements of relevance to EIAs and SEAs across the globe, as well as emerging issues and trends. It does this primarily ... -
Assessing SDGs Interlinkages, Interactions, Synergies, Nexuses and Trade-offs
(2019)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
Assessment on Linkages with Other Clusters related to Chemicals and Waste Management and Options to Coordinate and Cooperate on Areas of Common Interest - Assessment Paper
(2020)This assessment paper explores the linkages and options to coordinate and cooperate between chemicals and waste management and seven related clusters. The selection of clusters is based on linkages identified in the Global ... -
Bank and Investor Risk Policies on Soft Commodities: A Framework to Evaluate Deforestation and Forest Degradation Risk in the Agricultural Value Chain
(2015)This study aims to provide greater clarity on policies that banks and investors can adopt to reduce deforestation and forest degradation from the production of soy, palm oil and beef. The study and the accompanying tool ... -
Bottom-up Initiatives and Participatory Approaches for Outlooks - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 23
(2019)This chapter assesses participatory processes and local practices seeking transformed futures and grounds the interventions proposed in Chapter 22 with existing examples. The following sections provide background information ... -
Briefing Note on UNEA 4 and UNEA 5 for relevant Regional Ministerial or Expert Meetings - AMCEN/17/REF/1
(2019)This note provides an overview on key documents relevant for discussions on follow-up of the fourth session of UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 4) and on preparations for the fifth session of Assembly (UNEA 5), in support of ... -
Building an Inclusive Green Economy for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Overcoming Poverty and Inequality
(2012)This joint Poverty-Environment Partnership paper aims to stimulate a dialogue among developing country policymakers, development partners and other stakeholders on how best to support country-led efforts to build inclusive ... -
Chair’s Summary - Consultative Meeting on the Development of an African Strategy for Ocean Governance
(2018-11-30)A Consultative Meeting on the Development of an African Strategy for Ocean Governance was held at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi, 29-30 November 2018 to discuss possible elements to be included in the African ... -
Children’s Rights and the Environment: Guidance on Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
(2020)This guidance seeks to provide a concise guide to reporting on children’s rights as they relate to environmental issues. It is primarily intended to assist civil society organizations from both the human rights and ... -
Closing Data Gaps is Essential to Achieving the Environmental Dimension of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development - SDG Policy Brief No. 008 October 2019
(2019-10)The Sustainable Development Goals Policy Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change. The evidence provided builds on the scientific data and information hosted on Environment Live and is complemented by stories ... -
Compendium of good practices on human rights and the environment
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)The purpose of this compendium is to present good practices relating to the use of human rights obligations and commitments to inform, support and strengthen environmental policymaking, especially in the area of environmental ... -
Concept Note - Webinars on “Land Rights Recognition for Ecosystems Restoration, Improved Livelihoods and Food Security”
(2020)The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, declared on 1 March 2019 by the UN General Assembly, which UNEP and FAO are the lead organizations, aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ... -
Concept paper - Elements of a Regional Action Plan on Ecosystems Restoration - Intersessional Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean
(2019-10-20)https://www.unenvironment.org/events/un-environment-event/intersessional-meeting-forum-ministers-environment-latin-america-and -
Conclusions and Recommendations of the Intersessional Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean
(2019-11-06)https://www.unenvironment.org/events/un-environment-event/intersessional-meeting-forum-ministers-environment-latin-america-and -
Consensual Elements for the Theme for the Fifth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) - 24 October 2019
(2019-10-24)Consensual elements for the theme for the fifth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) -
Conservation and Wise Utilization of Tropical Forests : A Directory of Information Sources
(1980)The present directory on tropical forests represents a listing of some 350 institutions able to supply information to enquirers, on request and under mutually agreed terms, on one aspect or another of the following subjects ... -
Contributions of the UN Environment Assembly to the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
(2019)Ensuring the health of the environment is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, taking urgent action to curb global average temperature rise to well below 2C will prove critical ... -
The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: Five African Countries
(2018)Women represent over half of the agricultural labour force in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their substantive contribution to agriculture and their vital role in ensuring family food security have been widely documented. However, ... -
The Current State of Our Data and Knowledge - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 3
(2019)This section provides an introduction to environmental statistics and data and covers the state of existing data and knowledge that contribute to any environmental assessment, including national-, regional- and global-level ... -
Declaración de Cartagena - XX Reunión del Foro de Ministros de Medio Ambiente de América Latina y el Caribe
(2016-03-31)Declaración de Cartagena del XX Reunión del Foro de Ministros de Medio Ambiente de América Latina y el Caribe.