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UNEP and the UN Foundation Partners for Sustainable Development
(2004)
This booklet illustrates the areas where UN Foundation funds are supporting UNEP activities. UNEP has received UNFIP approval for projects in three main areas: • Information for decision making. • Biodiversity conservation. ...
UNEP in the REGIONS after World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD): West Asia - Environment for Development
(2005)
UNEP is a committed partner in the region's environmental initiatives. The WSSD commitments and newly-defined regional objectives, however, made a re-think of that support necessary and made 2003 an opportune time to design ...
Fourth Global Training Programme in Environmental Law
(1999)
The objectives of the training programme were:- to in-form participants about legal and institutional developments in the field of environmental law both at the international and national levels; to promote a greater ...
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, ...
Legislative Approaches to Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Governance - FAO Legislative Study No. 114
(2020)
This book seeks to explore how legislation, which is the backbone of governance and enforcement systems, accommodates and makes
provision for the connections among economic (and social) activities that may have more than ...
Quarterly Report to the 149th Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives: Seventh Issue - December 2019 to January 2020
(2020)
This quarterly report updates the Committee of Permanent Representatives on significant political and regional developments
related to UNEP’s work as well as on management issues in UNEP. It covers the period from 1 ...
Technical Summary - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
This Technical Summary synthesizes the key evidence
and messages of GEO-6. Chapter 1 sets out the context and methodological approach of the GEO-6 assessment.
It is followed by chapters that:
i) discuss the five drivers ...
Protected Planet Report 2018: Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets for Protected Areas
(2018)
Based on the world’s most up to date records in the World Database on Protected Areas, managed jointly by UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, the report confirms that almost 15% of the earth’s land surface and inland waters, and just above ...
Protected Planet Report 2016: How Protected Areas Contribute to Achieving Global Targets for Biodiversity
(2016)
The report underscores the importance of protected areas in sustaining the functions and values of natural ecosystems as well as the needs of human society. It highlights the nature-based solutions that protected areas ...