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The Future of Electric Vehicles and Material Resources: A Foresight Brief
(2020)
The main goals of this foresight brief are to: • highlight major opportunities and challenges in the mainstreaming of EVs, • examine the sustainability case of EVs by focusing on material resources, and • offer policy ...
Blockchain Technology and Environmental Sustainability - Foresight Brief No. 19 October 2020
(2020)
This Foresight Brief explores how blockchain technology could contribute to enhancing environmental sustainability management. The brief builds upon environmental use cases to review the technology’s key features, including ...
Resolution 1/7: Strengthening the Role of the United Nations Environment Programme in Promoting Air Quality - Report of the Executive Director
(2016-03-08)
At its first session, held in June 2014, the United Nations Environment Assembly adopted resolution 1/7, on strengthening the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in promoting air quality, which followed ...
The Global Commitment 2020 Progress Report
(2020)
To deliver a world without plastic pollution, industry and policymakers need to take urgent action to tackle the problem at its source. The Global Commitment unites more than 500 organisations behind concrete 2025 targets ...
Green and Sustainable Chemistry: Framework Manual - Revised Draft (10 November 2020)
(2020)
The Framework Manual introduces, in a structured way, various facets of green and sustainable chemistry, with the intention to foster learning, reflection and scale up action based on a common global understanding of the ...
Strengthening Synergies: How Action to Achieve Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets Can Contribute to Mitigating Climate Change
(2020)
The essential contribution of nature to addressing climate change provides an opportunity to strengthen the links between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. ...
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 ...