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Sustainable Development Goals: United Nations Environment Programme: Annual Report 2015
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)
UNEP’s role in environmental sustainability for the 2030 Agenda. In September, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to end poverty, protect the planet, ...
Compliance mechanisms under selected multilateral environmental agreements
(UNEP, 2007)
This report seeks to perform a comparative analysis of compliance mechanisms under selected multilateral environment agreements (MEAs). Nineteen MEAs were selected on the basis of their being global in scope, widely ratified ...
Global flood modeling: statistical estimation of Peak-flow magnitude
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2006)
The scope of the present paper is to describe an exploratory analysis on the feasibility of a global flood hazard modeling, which would enable further studies on human vulnerability. The method chosen is inspired by local ...
Guide for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
(UNEP, 2007)
The guide serves MEA negotiators to acquire knowledge respectively broaden their knowledge on the process of negotiations of MEAs in all stages: From the preparations at home, to the negotiations at conferences and finally ...
Environmental governance: Strengthening global governance in an interconnected world - UNEP 2015 Annual Report
(2016)
In its work on environmental governance, the overarching element that needs to be strengthened to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other international frameworks, including the recently adopted ...
France’s Financial (Eco)system: Improving the integration of sustainability factors
(2015)
In the run-up of the COP21, much international attention is focused on France. While mainly related to climate change negotiations, this creates an opportunity to take a broader look at French domestic policies and practices ...
UNEP in 2006: Annual Report
(UNEP, 2007)
The 2006 annual report is a summary of UNEP's activities in 2006.
How Paris Became the Capital of Climate Finance
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)
This working paper traces the evolution of the ‘networked solution’ to finance that came together at the COP21 in Paris, linking the formal negotiations with a broader set of actions by financial regulators, by financial ...
REDD+ Academy Learning Journal Edition 1 - Fall 2015
(2015)
The REDD+ Academy is a coordinated REDD+ capacity development initiative led by the UN-REDD Programme and the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit, which seeks to match the scale of the global climate change ...
Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda: Why Environmental Sustainability and Gender Equality are so important to Reducing Poverty and Inequalities - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 17
(2015)
On September 25th 2015, the Heads of States of the UN’s 193 member states adopted the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and its 17 “Sustainable Development Goals. This is the result of two policy processes that ...