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Advancing Sustainable Consumption & Production: Circularity in the Economy of Tomorrow
(2020)
Environmental challenges and lifestyle choices are defining issues of our time. The concept of circularity allows us to operationalize the inclusive green economy: how to reduce and eliminate waste and pollution through ...
Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2020)
This paper summarizes the core environmental challenges in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region. It is an adapted and extended version of the Environmental Outlook for the West Asia Region (Abumoghli I. 2019), published ...
Right to a Healthy Environment: Good Practices - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
(2020)
The present report highlights good practices in the recognition and implementation of the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The term “good practice” is defined broadly, to include laws, ...
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 ...
People and Planet: Faith in the 2030 Agenda
(2020)
In March 2020, Sida, UNEP, SIWI, and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency convened actors from around the world in a digital, flight-free conference entitled People and Planet: Faith in the 2030 Agenda. The event ...
International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2019. UNEP Course Series 19
(University of Eastern Finland, 2020)
The compilation of papers in the present volume of the Review is based on lectures presented during the sixteenth University of Eastern Finland – United Nations Environment Programme Course on Multilateral Environmental ...
Gaps and Opportunities for Synergies in International Environmental Law on Climate and Biodiversity to Promote the Sustainable Development Goals - International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2019 Chapter 3
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2020)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a new mode of governance through shared goals instead of legally binding international agreements. Nevertheless, global action is required as the sustainability challenges ...