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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 ...
Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management: A Primer
(2018)
This primer is designed to raise awareness of the multiple benefits of nature-based solutions. solutions most useful to water resources managers (section 3); and adopts the view that: • the first point of resilience to ...
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 ...
Protecting Seagrass through Payments for Ecosystem Services: A Community Guide
(2020)
This document explores the ways in which community groups could use Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to run a seagrass conservation project. It outlines the requirements of running a project and include best practice ...
Introducing UNEP Work on Responsible Industry and Value Chains
(2015)
This presentation introduces UNEP’s work on responsible industry and value-chains
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 ...
Quarterly Report to the 148th Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives: Sixth Issue - October to November 2019
(2019)
As this report outlines, the period from 1 October to 30 November 2019 was a critical and productive time in which we made important progress in contributing to the science on the climate emergency; supporting the multilateral ...
Quarterly Report to the 146th Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives: Fourth Issue - January-March 2019
(2019)
UN Environment Programme supports the implementation of the 2030 Agenda thorough its Medium-Term Strategy and derived Programmes of Work. This quarterly report for the current biennium (2018-2019) focuses on the implementation ...
UNEP in 2019 - Letter from the Executive Director [Annual Report]
(2020)
In lieu of an annual report, Executive Director Inger Andersen looks back in letter format on 2019, her first year in office. She calls it “a year when our past finally caught up with us and science provided an unambiguous ...
Blue Carbon – Nationally Determined Contributions Inventory. Appendix to: Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems Opportunities for Nationally Determined Contributions
(2016)
This appendix provides an inventory of the existing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ratified National Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...