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Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern Energy for All
(2017)
Goal 7 recognizes that extending access to electricity and other forms of energy is fundamental to improving people’s lives and communities. It aims for efficiencies in energy use and the promotion of renewable sources to ...
Faith for Earth - Foresight Brief No. 008 - May 2018
(2018)
To several religions, nature is sacred, has intrinsic value, and therefore demands reverent care (Taylor 2010). Utilizing the agility of these beliefs in addressing climate change, energy conservation, sustainable use of ...
Environmental Law Making and Oversight for Sustainable Development: A guide for Legislators
(2018)
The overarching purpose of this Guide is to provide formative answers to these questions that are practically useful in the daily work of legislators and legislative officials around the world. The scope of the Guide ...
Making Waves: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development - Executive Summary
(2018)
This report reviews the Inquiry’s core analysis, summarizes progress made in aligning the financial system with sustainable development between 2014 and 2017, reflects on the lessons that can be learned from the Inquiry’s ...
Making Waves: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development
(2018)
This report reviews the Inquiry’s core analysis, summarizes progress made in aligning the financial system with sustainable development between 2014 and 2017, reflects on the lessons that can be learned from the Inquiry’s ...
El Enfoque Integrado y la Dimensión Ambiental en la Agenda 2030 - Los Informes Nacionales Voluntarios de América Latina y el Caribe (2016-2017)
(2018)
Este documento es el resultado de la revisión de los catorce1 Informes Voluntarios sobre la implementación de la Agenda 2030, presentados por los países de América Latina y el Caribe ante el Foro Político de Alto Nivel en ...
Using Scenarios and Voluntary Commitments to Guide Policy and Practice to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 14 in the Western Indian Ocean:White Paper for the Science-Policy Workshop of the 9th Conference of Parties to the Nairobi Convention, 9-11 July 2018
(2018)
The United Nations Agenda 2030 further enshrines the central role of the ocean for sustainable development through Goal 14 (SDG14), to "conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources ", to lift millions ...
Regional Outlook on Marine Protected Areas: Background, Purpose and Process
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018)
The Nairobi Convention through its GEF-funded project, ‘Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the protection of the Western Indian Ocean from land-based sources and activities (WIO-SAP)’, which started in ...
No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Applying the Mitigation Hierarchy and Biodiversity Offsets as Tools to Achieve Sustainable Development in the Western Indian Ocean
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018)
The Western Indian Ocean is one of the richest regions of the world for biodiversity. It comprises diverse ecosystems both in terms of biodiversity and the ecosystem services provided, as is the case of coral reefs and ...