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Inclusive Wealth Report 2018: Measuring Sustainability and Well-being
(2019)
In recent years, a number of authors have shown that, if by sustainable development we are to mean that welfare across the generations should not decline over time, the index that measures an economy's productive base ...
Measuring Progress: Towards Achieving the Environmental Dimension of the SDGs
(2019)
Did you know that only 23% of the environment-related SDG indicators are on track to meet the target if current trends continue? For 68%, there is not enough data to assess progress and for 9% there is not progress toward ...
Promoting Gender-Responsive Approaches to Natural Resource Management for Peace in North Kordofan, Sudan
(2019)
The Joint Project “Promoting Gender-Responsive Approaches to Natural Resource Management for Peace” was the first pilot project established by the global Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources and Peace, which aims ...
Gender Mainstreaming in the Management of the Marine and Coastal Ecosystems. UN Environment Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 212
(2019)
This report aims to make a small contribution to the above challenge by compiling practical cases of marine and coastal management from different regions that have integrated a gender perspective in their design, implementation ...
Global Chemicals Outlook II – From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Synthesis Report
(2019-03)
The Global Chemicals Outlook II – From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, mandated by the UN Environment Assembly in 2016, seeks to alert policymakers and other ...
Plastics and Shallow Water Coral Reefs: Synthesis of the Science for Policy-makers
(2019)
The overall purpose of this brief is to provide policy and management recommendations for addressing and reducing the impacts of plastics on shallow water coral reefs, based on current scienti c knowledge. In doing so, the ...
A Review of 20 Years' Air Pollution Control in Beijing
(2019)
In 1998 Beijing began an intensified air pollution control program, and over the last 20 years the city has implemented a series of measures including energy infrastructure optimization, coal-fired pollution control, and ...
Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook
(2019)
The Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook provides an assessment of solid, liquid and gaseous waste generated in 58 Small Island Developing States. It also recommends a series of initiatives that can be ...
Global Linkages: A Graphic Look at the Changing Arctic
(2019)
The new report “Global Linkages – A graphic look at the changing Arctic”, produced by UN Environment and its collaborating center GRID-Arendal, is a set of maps and graphics, accompanied by short narratives to synthesize ...
Waste Not, Want Not: Reducing Food Loss and Waste in North America through Life Cycle-based Approaches
(2019)
The objective of this report is to describe life cycle thinking and the suite of quantitative tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA) that are rooted in that perspective, and to detail where and how these tools can be ...