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The Financial System We Need: From Momentum to Transformation - Highlights
(2016)
This follow-up annual report reveals a doubling in policy actions over the past five years to align the global financial system with sustainable development. Policy and regulatory measures by finance ministries, central ...
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 ...
Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals
(2019)
This report provides methodological guidance for measuring fossil fuel subsidies in the context of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 12.c.1: “Amount of fossil fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and ...
Global Chemicals Outlook II - From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(2019)
The Global Chemicals Outlook II – From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, mandated by the UN Environment Assembly in 2016, seeks to alert policymakers and other ...
Protecting the Environment from Land Degradation: UNEP's Action in the Framework of the Global Environment Facility
(2005)
Land degradation is worldwide in geographic extent and global in its environmental and socio-economic impacts. Drylands that are particularly vulnerable to land degradation occupy 41% of Earth's land. More than two billion ...
Faith for Earth Dialogue: United Nations Environment Assembly 4 - Synthesis Paper
(2019)
One of the main objectives of the Faith for Earth Initiative is to strategically engage with faith-based organisations (FBOs) and mobilise faith leaders and the faith community in an effective partnership to collectively ...
Scaling up Collaborative Action under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Global Chemicals Outlook II Part V
(2019)
Part V places the insights generated in Parts I-IV within the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, focusing on opportunities for collaborative action to achieve the sound management of chemicals and ...
The State of the Environment 1986: Environment and Health
(1986)
This report aims to show that the achievement of sustained development, the promotion of health, and the rational use of the environmental resources are absolutely inseparable. Disregard one and, sooner or later, the other ...
Taking Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and its Impact - SDG13 Issue Brief
(2019)
Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13) – to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact is one of gravest existential threats facing our collective, sustainable future survival on this planet.