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UNEP Guide for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Laws
(2016-09)
The Guide describes the key legal issues associated with efficiency and renewable energy resource development, and presents legislative options from both developed and developing countries for dealing with them, including ...
UNEP Programme Performance Report 2016
(2016)
UN Environment this year commemorates 45 years of its existence with a track record in leading efforts to protect our environment. Established in December 1972 as a follow up to the Stockholm Conference on the Human ...
Enhancing Synergies across Global Biodiversity Conventions: Experiences from the Global South: Workshop Proceedings and Country Reports
(2016-09)
Over the past few years, UN Environment has led a multi-stakeholder process to identify options for enhancing synergies and cooperation among the global biodiversity conventions. To that effect, UN Environment organized a ...
UN Environment COP22 Events
(2016)
This brochure highlights key UN Environment events during COP22.
Interview with Erik Solheim, Executive Director of UN Environment
(2016)
Following an extensive career focusing on environment and development in government and international organisations, Erik Solheim was elected to become head of UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on May 13, 2016. He took the ...
Lessons from UNEA -2: Ensure Broader, Deeper Engagement in a Focused UNEA -3: Voices from Civil Society - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 22
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016-09)
The second session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-2) took place in May 2016, as a true mult-stakeholder event, bringing together an unprecedented number of representatives from governments, civil society, ...
The Faith We Share and The World We Want - UNEP Perspectives No. 21
(2016-04)
Successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require healthy, resilient and sustainable local communities everywhere. Focusing on the health, resilience and sustainability of local communities ...
UNEP and Civil Society: An Exchange: A New Landscape For Stakeholder Engagement In UNEP? - UNEP Perspectives Issue No. 20
(2016-03)
This issue of “Perspectives” presents a discourse between Mark Halle and Felix Dodds on the past and future role of civil society organisations and Major Groups and Stakeholders in the context of the United Nations Environment ...
Universal Sustainable Development Goals: A Challenge For The Rich Countries As Well As The Poor - UNEP Perspectives No. 19
(2016-01)
This edition focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); explaining them as global goals that challenge both, developed and developing countries to find new pathways to a more sustainable future. The authors present ...
The State of Biodiversity in Africa: A Mid-term Review of Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016-05)
The report identifies opportunities and challenges in implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 in Africa and looks ahead to actions which need to be taken by national governments and other decision makers ...