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Challenges for the Growth of the Electric Vehicle Market - Foresight Brief No. 017 June 2020
(2020)
Electric vehicles (EV) can play an important part in the decarbonisation of the traffic sector. This helps in climate mitigation and positively impacts the air quality of cities, due to reduced emissions such as CO2, NOx, ...
Seagrasses, the Forgotten Ecosystems - Foresight Brief No. 016 May 2020
(2020)
Seagrass meadows significantly support world fisheries production and global food security, providing valuable nursery habitat for over one fifth of the world’s largest fisheries (Unsworth et al. 2019), as well as shelter ...
Think Piece: Gender and Climate Change in the Context of COVID-19
(2020)
2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and to ...
Working with the Environment to Protect People: UNEP’s COVID-19 Response
(2020)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands with the billions of people suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate priority is to protect them. But UNEP also has a duty to help nations build back better ...
COVID-19: Implications for Trade and Environment
(2020)
Trade is experiencing an unprecedented contraction during the COVID 19 outbreak and the prospects for a quick recovery of trade depend on the duration of the epidemic and effectiveness of policy responses.
Building Resilient Societies after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Messages from the International Resource Panel
(2020)
The world is experiencing an unprecedented moment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. For us at the International Resource Panel (IRP) it is also a moment to reflect. This document provides policy recommendations extracted ...
Key Messages - Preventing the Next Pandemic – Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission
(2020)
This evidence-based scientific assessment has identified the following key messages for decision-makers: 1) De-risking food systems; 2) Urgency; 3) Report audience; 4) Scope of the problem; 5) Outbreak frequency and ...
Unveiling Plastic Pollution in Oceans - Foresight Brief No. 018 August 2020
(2020-08)
Marine plastic litter pollution is a global concern that threatens seas and the ocean, biodiversity, human health and economic activities such as tourism, fisheries and marine navigation/transportation. Plastics represent ...
Annex 2. Indicative Activities and Sub-activities - [Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration]
(2020)
The activities and sub-activities presented in the table below are indicative because it is not known which partners will contribute to their implementation. Commitments to undertake specific activities will take place ...