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Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information: Global Guidance on Making Effective Environmental, Social and Economic Claims, to Empower and Enable Consumer Choice
(2017)
The Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information aim to provide value chain and public sector professionals with clear guidance on how to make effective, trustworthy claims to consumers, on product-related ...
Fintech and Sustainable Development: Assessing the Implications
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
The report, a companion to the second edition of “The Financial System We Need”, assesses how the financial system’s core functions are likely to be disrupted by financial technology (“fintech”) innovations and how they ...
Hacking Economics for People and Planet - Foresight Brief No. 006 - February 2018
(2018)
As global environmentalism and environmental policy-making has moved into the 21st century, it has not significantly addressed a critical blindspot: the fundamental human system that lies at the root of our ecological and ...
Certification and Sustainable Fisheries
(2009)
The main concern of this paper is a consideration of the hypothetical and actual benefits of certification and eco-labelling. The paper focuses on environmental certification of capture fisheries (rather than social and/or ...
Towards Sustainable Fisheries Access Agreements: Issues and Options at the World Trade Organization
(2008-10)
This paper presents concrete textual suggestions for improving the ASCM with regards to “access-related” fisheries subsidies. Suggested options range from improving the definition of subsidies to introducing criteria-conditioned ...
Sustainability Criteria for Fisheries Subsidies: Options for the WTO and Beyond
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2007)
The aim of this paper is to assist governments in the identification of criteria for the use of fisheries subsidies, with the dual ambition of helping WTO negotiators craft new international law and providing domestic ...
Green Economy and Trade Opportunities: Country Projects Synthesis Report
(2016)
This synthesis report summarizes lessons from the UNEP Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project, which identified, assessed and harnessed trade opportunities arising from the transition to a green economy. The authors ...
Peru's Sustainable Trade Potential: Biodiversity-based Products
(2015)
The GE-TOP Peru project analyzed challenges and opportunities to improve value chains in the biotrade sector, advance the sustainability of production, and enhance access to international markets. This study, Peru’s ...
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: Promote Peaceful and Inclusive Societies for Sustainable Development, Provide Access to Justice for All, and Build Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions at All Levels
(2017)
Goal 16 promotes just, transparent, and accountable governance, together with inclusive frameworks and peaceful societies.
Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns
(2017)
By reducing waste, and promoting recycling, reuse, and more efficient practices across high-consumption economies and those highly dependent on natural resources, Goal 12 looks to bolster the mechanisms for sustainable ...