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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 ...
Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions through Nature-Based Solutions and Resource Efficiency - UNEP Factsheet
(2020)
COVID-19 presents challenges to achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Recovery from the pandemic requires rethinking the way in which we generate wealth, and shifting ...
Zoonotic Diseases - UNEP Factsheet
(2020)
Unless we act to protect habitat and biodiversity loss, says United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director, Inger Andersen, pandemics could become a new normal in this century. In response, UNEP is seeking ...
Global Environmental Governance - UNEP Factsheet
(2020)
It is important that both the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the multilateral environment agreements (MEAs) we
support remain active and engaged, and that global environmental governance continues to ...
Articulating Social and Environmental Policy for post-COVID-19 Recovery: Opportunities to Respond and Build Back Better while Leaving No One Behind in Latin America and the Caribbean - Policy Brief
(2020)
Environmental considerations can be integrated in the response to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This document presents feasible examples and policy tools that integrate and complement social protection goals with ...
Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19
(2020)
This report is a call to action, for the immediate health response required to suppress transmission of the virus to end the pandemic; and to tackle the many social and economic dimensions of this crisis. It is, above all, ...
Environment in COVID-19 Humanitarian Response in Latin America and the Caribbean: Articulating Social and Environmental Policy for post-COVID-19 Recovery - Policy Brief
(2020)
The Latin America and the Caribbean region has a large caseload of refugees, migrants and internally displaced people as well as slum-dwellers and the urban poor, who are some of the most vulnerable groups and disproportionately ...
OzoNews Volume XX - 30 March 2020
(2020-03-30)
In this issue:
1. COVID-19 pandemic: Letter from James S. Curlin, Acting Head, OzonAction, to the
National Ozone Officers
2. Global efforts on ozone help reverse southern jet stream damage
3. Rare ozone hole opens over ...
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.