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This document contributes to Peru's National BioTrade Strategy with a series of suggestions in the field of the expansion of markets and the expansion of the Biocommerce model....

This synthesis report summarizes lessons from the UNEP Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project, which identified, assessed and harnessed trade opportunities arising from...

In order to achieve the call ‘From Waste to Resources’, an integrated waste policy and management, which addresses environmental impacts along the whole life-cycle of products,...

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...

Esta es la tercera edición del informe regional sobre movilidad eléctrica en América Latina y el Caribe, para el año 2019, desarrollado por la plataforma MOVE de la Oficina...

The case studies were developed based on a common terms of reference that sought to identify similarities among countries as well as distinct or unique challenges and...

The Regional Seas Programme was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1974 in response to the selection of the oceans as a priority area by the UNEP...

This analysis document is developed for policymakers and other interested stakeholders on formalization of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector.

Over the past three decades, the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector in Tanzania has been increasingly important for poverty alleviation nationally. Tanzania,...

BioTrade can become an important component of the greening of economies because of its contribution to poverty-reduction, job creation and to the conservation of biodiversity....

En mayo de 1984, el Programa de l~s Naclones Unldas para el Media Ambiente (PNUMA) [United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)] aprob6 el Plan Global de Acci6n para Ia...

In Peru, Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an ancestral activity that experienced a great surge beginning in the 1980s because of the political and social...

Mercury is a highly toxic metal. Being an element, mercury cannot be broken down or degraded into harmless substances. Mercury may change between different states and species in...

This report pursues the following main objectives: (i) To provide an up-to-date overview of selected national, and as appropriate regional, policy and legal frameworks on access...

The present assessment on land-based activities affecting the marine, coastal and associated freshwater environment in the South-East Pacific region was prepared as a main...

More than 180 countries have peatlands but we are only just starting to understand their role in both climate change and our efforts to curb it. Peatlands cover less than three...

Mountains play an essential role in supplying water, energy, food and other services to millions of people living in the mountains and downstream. Ensuring the continued supply...

The series, entitled Exchange of Environmental Experience, grew out of a recognition that a great deal of valuable experience on the environment was being shared through the...

UNEP is working around the world to respond to natural disasters, industrial accidents, and human-induced crises. Since 1994, UNEP, through its Disasters and Conflicts Branch,...

NbS are increasingly seen as a way to meet the objectives of several global agreements and can be central to a just transition – if the right mix of just transition policies are...