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The ABC for Sustainable Cities: A Glossary for Policy Makers
The ABC for Sustainable Cities aims to bring clarity on this. Rather than providing a single univocal definition of what is a “Sustainable City”, it brings together key elements... -
South Sudan: First State of Environment and Outlook Report 2018
One of the top priorities of the Government of South Sudan is to develop and implement sustainable management plans in the sub-sectors of the environment sector, so that the... -
GEO Methodology for City Environment Assessment: Working Manual [Chinese]
The battle for sustainable development, for delivering a more environmentally stable, just and healthier world, is going to be largely won and lost in our cities. -
Fiscal Policies to Address Air Pollution from Road Transport in Cities and...
The objective of this study is to support the Indonesian and Jakarta governments in their efforts to address air pollution and GHG emissions by proposing a possible package of... -
State of Environment and Outlook Report for the occupied Palestinian Territory 2020
This report provides an overview of the current state of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Building on earlier work by the United Nations Environment... -
Working Paper: Framework Elements for Assessing Urban Environmental Performance
Effective development of city-regions is a major challenge and requires reliable and pertinent indicators to guide planners’ actions and monitor progress. The large number of... -
Cities and Carbon Finance: A Feasibility Study and an Urban CDM
This report analyses existing Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) methodologies and makes specific recommendations on how cities can improve their access to climate finance... -
Liveable Cities: The Benefits of Urban Environmental Planning - A Cities...
This report, focusing on the urban challenge, brings together concrete case studies from cities around the world which are struggling, but also in many cases succeeding in... -
UNEP and UN-Habitat Greener Cities Partnership
Recognizing the importance of urban development issues in the global environmental agenda, the UNEP and the UN-Habitat have combined their professional networks and technical... -
The Brazilian Financial System and the Green Economy: Alignment with...
The goal of this present document is to identify in the Brazilian scenario relevant aspects for the Inquiry purpose, based on three complementary studies: current resource... -
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of...
These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate... -
Le Bassin Méditerranéen: Cadre géographique et socio-économique du Plan Bleu
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Coastal Cities in WIO Region: New Opportunities for the Nairobi Convention
Of the 17 Goals, SDG 11, make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (Sustainable Cities and Communities), also known as the ‘urban SDG’,... -
State of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Negombo City, Sri Lanka
This study confirms that there are many challenges in current waste management in Negombo at all stages of the lifecycle due to a range of technical, social, economic and... -
Assessment of Urban Air Quality
The overall purpose of this report is: - to continue the ongoing process of producing periodic evaluations of the global air pollution situation in urban areas; - to continue to... -
Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative: Quad Cities Science Report
Hundreds of community volunteers surveyed targeted areas in the Quad Cities to understand the movement and accumulation of plastic pollution, generating key data through a... -
Digital Finance and Citizen Action: In Financing the Future of Climate-Smart...
This study, which serves as a companion to the main report, looks at how digital finance is already enabling citizens to participate more directly in the infrastructure... -
Overview of the Republic of Korea's Green Growth National Vision
This report is produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of its Green Economy Initiative. The purpose of this report is to present an overview of the... -
Growing in Circles: Climate-ready, Resilient, Resource-Efficient and Equitable Cities
Twenty years after the first Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, UNEP launched the Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities (GI-REC), with the goal of applying... -
Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management: A Primer
This primer is designed to raise awareness of the multiple benefits of nature-based solutions. solutions most useful to water resources managers (section 3); and adopts the view...