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Creating a Sustainable Food Future: A Menu of Solutions to Feed nearly 10 billion People by 2050 - Synthesis Report
(2018)
The report focuses on technical opportunities and policies for cost-effective scenarios for meeting food, land use, and greenhouse gas
emissions goals in 2050 in ways that can also help to alleviate poverty and do not ...
Moving to Strategy and Action: Regional Seas Outlook for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals - Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 200
(2017)
The document has been prepared in response to the decision of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans made at the 18th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans so as to provide guiding elements ...
Kenya Green University Network Informal Consultative Meeting
(2014)
The Kenya Green University Network (KGUN) was proposed in 2012 after deliberations between the Greening Kenya Initiative (GKI), World Student Community for Sustainable Development (WSCSD), the University of Nairobi (UoN), ...
Putting Ecosystem Management in the Vision of Africa’s Development: Towards a sustainable Green Economy - UNEP Policy Series Policy Brief 7 2011
(2011)
This issues paper aims to: i. demonstrate the foundational significance of ecosystems in maintaining Africa’s societies, and ii. draw the attention of Africa’s policy-makers to the challenges and opportunities in ecosystem ...
Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development – A Rapid Response Assessment
(2010)
The objective of this report is to provide an overview of some of the most crucial services rendered by natural ecosystems to
humankind and how they can be restored as part of policy development to partially resolve key ...
Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions
(2019)
The impact of air pollution on human heath represents a serious public health crisis across Asia and the Pacific. Fewer than 8 per cent of the region’s people are exposed to levels of air pollution that do not pose a ...
Protected Planet Report 2018: Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets for Protected Areas
(2018)
Based on the world’s most up to date records in the World Database on Protected Areas, managed jointly by UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, the report confirms that almost 15% of the earth’s land surface and inland waters, and just above ...
Restoring the Natural Foundation to Sustain a Green Economy: A Century-long Journey for Ecosystem Management
(2011)
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the success of Rio+20 through demonstrating the key role that Ecosystem Management has in underpinning the Green Economy and illustrating the advantages of this approach. In ...
The ABC for Sustainable Cities: A Glossary for Policy Makers
(2016)
The ABC for Sustainable Cities aims to bring clarity on this. Rather than providing a single univocal definition of what is a “Sustainable City”, it brings together key elements of it by compiling terms and concepts from ...
Nature-based Solutions for Water 2018: The United Nations World Water Development Report 2018
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2018)
More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than double that number lack access to safe sanitation. With a rapidly growing global population, demand for water is expected to increase by nearly ...