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Frequently Asked Questions - Preventing the Next Pandemic: Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission
(2020)Factsheet addressing the following questions: What are zoonotic diseases? What is driving the spread of zoonotic diseases? What are the impacts of zoonotic diseases? Africa has an opportunity to lead pandemic prevention ... -
Frequently Asked Questions on Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Tackling the Big Questions Around the Global Corporate Sustainability Reporting Agenda
(2013)This document contributes to the work of the Group of Friends of Paragraph 47 (GoF47) and its Secretariat, provided by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The document ... -
Frequently Asked Questions: The Environment Fund
(2020)This document provides answers to some of the frequently asked questions on the Environment Fund, including: What is the Environment Fund?; What is the Environment Fund used for?; How is the level of the Environment Fund ... -
Frequently asked questions: the Marrakech process
(UNEP, 2009)This publication defines the concept of SCP and provides brief answers and overviews of each of the activities of the Marrakech Process (international and regional meetings, Task Forces, Forums with business and civil ... -
Fresh water for the future: a synopsis of UNEP activities in water
(UNEP, 2012)This publication gives a snapshot of the significant contribution that UNEP with its partners have made around the world in protecting our limited fresh water resources for the improvement of livelihoods, focusing on the ... -
Fresh Water Under Threat: Protecting and Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems - SDG Policy Brief No. 004
(2018)Freshwater ecosystems such as lakes and rivers are primarily affected by over-extraction, dumping of waste, discharge of wastewater and climate change. These ecosystems are essential for human health, biodiversity, and the ... -
Freshwater - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 9
(2019)The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) highlights links between water (SDG 6) and health (SDG 3). -
Freshwater - Our Planet Vol. 14 No. 1 2003
(UNEP, 2003)This year’s slogan for World Environment Day is ‘Water: Two Billion People are Dying for It!’. It is incumbent on the 4 billion who are not, to renew their respect for wate by valuing every drop. -
Freshwater - Tunza Vol. 10 No. 4
(2012)As you can read in these pages, lots of you are already actively seeking solutions to the world’s water problems, but we all have a part to play. It can be as simple as not leaving the tap running while you wash your teeth, ... -
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
(2015-03)This study was designed to gain insights into how regional and basin water agreements take into account principles and provisions of international water law – both customary international law and treaty based law – and ... -
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability: Technical background document for theme 3: “Environmental Laws and Regulations” and theme 4: “Institutional Challenge”
This study is intended to contribute to the discussion of international freshwater governance, in particular with respect to how regional and basin agreements relate to the implementation of international water law principles ... -
Freshwater Policy - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 16
(2019)Through case studies and an analysis of indicators related to the SDGs, this chapter shows how the nexus concept matters in relation to policy effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. -
Freshwater Strategy 2017-2021
(2017)This document describes UN Environment’s five-year Freshwater Strategy from 2017 to 2021. As a living document, it is intended to guide work related to freshwater across UN Environment’s divisions, sub-programmes and ... -
Freshwater Strategy 2017-2021
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Freshwater Strategy 2017-2021 Summary
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Freshwater under threat : North East Asia
(UNEP, 2008)As part of an UNEPs global initiative in vulnerability assessment of freshwater resources under changing climate, this report summarizes results from in-depth vulnerability assessment of freshwater resources in the Northeast ... -
Freshwater under threat South East Asia
(UNEP, 2009)This report is one of the outputs of the Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change project, presenting a situation analysis with regard to the vulnerability of water resources system in South ... -
Freshwater under Threat – Pacific Islands
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2011)This study undertakes a vulnerability assessment of the freshwater resources of the Pacific Island Countries (PICs), based on input from technical experts and regional resource managers. The approach assumes that the ... -
Freshwater under threat: Africa-Asia Summary - Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change.
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2008)Africa and Asia's dependence on natural resources makes their people most vulnerable to environmental change. This vulnerability includes both natural and human phenomena, including climate change and variability, pollution, ...