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Concept Note - Webinars on “Land Rights Recognition for Ecosystems Restoration, Improved Livelihoods and Food Security”
(2020)
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, declared on 1 March 2019 by the UN General Assembly, which UNEP and FAO are the lead organizations, aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ...
Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development – A Rapid Response Assessment
(2010)
The objective of this report is to provide an overview of some of the most crucial services rendered by natural ecosystems to
humankind and how they can be restored as part of policy development to partially resolve key ...
UNEP Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework (ESSF)
(2020)
UNEP’s Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework (ESSF) aims to strengthen the sustainability and accountability of UNEP programmes and projects. It respects human rights and aims to protect people and the environment ...
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 ...
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 ...