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Africa Clean Mobility Week - Conference Report
(2018-04-02)The Africa Clean Mobility Week was held at the UN Environment Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya on 12-16 March 2018. The week brought together stakeholders from within and outside the region to address challenges and map ... -
Background Paper for the Ministerial Consultations: Environmental Challenges within Sustainable Development and the Contribution of the United Nations Environment Programme to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production: Discussion Paper by the Executive Director
(07/01/2013)The ministerial round tables will examine the ways in which global environmental goals can be integrated together with social and economicgoals into sustainable development goals that place people at the centre of sustainable ... -
Bringing the 2015 Summits Home : An Action Agenda for Legislators
(GLOBE International, 2016-07)This discussion paper is the result of a year-long collaboration between UNEP and GLOBE International to foster more integrated policymaking and legislative action on key sustainability challenges facing the global community. ... -
EGM_12_3_DraftIndicativeWorkProgramme
Draft indicative work programme of the African MinisterialConference on the Environment for the biennium 2009–2010 -
EGM_12_3_DraftIndicativeWorkProgramme_FR
Draft indicative work programme of the African MinisterialConference on the Environment for the biennium 2009–2010 -
Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Opportunities for Basin Organisations: Technical background document for theme 2: “Water-Energy-Food Nexus”
Good governance of the water-energy-food nexus can improve energy, water and food security, foster synergies, manage trade-offs, support sustainable development and maintain ecosystem services. Basin Organizations (BOs) ... -
Implementing Principle 10 and the Bali Guidelines in Africa: Issue Paper to Support UNEP and Other Stakeholders
(2015-02-10)Executive Summary Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration sets out three fundamental rights: access to information, access to public participation and access to justice, as key pillars of sound environmental governance. The ... -
The Nairobi Convention Secretariat’s Definition of “ICZM Instruments”
(02/03/2016)After the negotiations, a number of issues and definitions remained unresolved including, but not limited to: Geographical Coverage (protocol area), Objectives of the ICZM, ICZM instruments, Conservation and Rehabilitation ... -
Preventing Conflict in Resource-rich Countries: The Extractive Industries Value Chain as a Framework for Conflict Prevention
(2015)The report’s main objective is to examine the potential opportunities for conflict prevention (both post and pre-conflict) along the extractive industries value chain. This paper aims to demonstrate the feasibility and ... -
Promoting Ecosystems for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
(2015)The main focus of the paper is to examine potential areas of integration and synergy, highlighting how sustainable ecosystems management approaches help facilitate integration of CCA and DRR. A total of 38 (Eco-DRR, EBA ... -
Twenty Years of the Bamako Convention: A Time for More Effective Implementation
(2018)Twenty Years of the Bamako Convention: A Time for More Effective Implementation