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Towards a Worldwide Assessment of Freshwater Quality - A UN-Water Analytical Brief
(2016)
This Analytical Brief provides information about past assessments, outlines the challenge but also provides a plan for a world water quality assessment, which, if undertaken, would provide decision makers with the information ...
Financing the Transition: How Financial System Reform Can Serve Sustainable Development
(2016)
This report is focused on understanding how the growing number of policy and regulatory measures taken in the financial system can support a real economy in transition, seeking to answer the question: ‘what measures are ...
Financing on Development and Technology Transfer: A Review Focused on Waste Management Related Needs and Corresponding Supply by International Organizations
(2016)
This report reviews the agreements and commitments made by countries in the Monterey Consensus in 2002, Doha Agreement in 2008, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda in 2015 and the SDGs 2030. The linkages among the Agendas from ...
The Fnancial System We Need: From Momentum to Transformation - 2nd Edition
(2016)
This follow-up annual report reveals a doubling in policy actions over the past five years to align the global financial system with sustainable development. Policy and regulatory measures by finance ministries, central ...
Fintech and Sustainable Development: Assessing the Implications
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
The report, a companion to the second edition of “The Financial System We Need”, assesses how the financial system’s core functions are likely to be disrupted by financial technology (“fintech”) innovations and how they ...
Africa's Blue Economy: A Policy Handbook
(2016)
In line with the decisions of the 19th ICE, the main aim of this handbook is to provide a step-by-step guide on how to mainstream the Blue Economy into continental, subregional, and national policies, plans, laws, regulations, ...
State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific: A Mid-Term Review of Progress Towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
(2016)
This report builds on and complements the global GBO-4 assessment. This is the second edition of The State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific report and serves as a near mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi ...
Protected Planet Report 2016: How Protected Areas Contribute to Achieving Global Targets for Biodiversity
(2016)
The report underscores the importance of protected areas in sustaining the functions and values of natural ecosystems as well as the needs of human society. It highlights the nature-based solutions that protected areas ...
Protected Planet National Technical Series: Republic of Korea
(2016)
The aim of the report is to assess the status of the protected area network of the Republic of Korea and propose priorities for expansion to support the implementation of international and national biodiversity targets.
Multiple Pathways to Sustainable Development: Further Evidence of Sustainability in Practice
(2016)
This report serves to build on that earlier publication by examining four additional approaches that have been adopted at the country or regional level: Circular Economy in the European Union (EU) and Germany, Natural ...