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This report investigates the potential of nature-based solutions (NbS) to help build smart, sustainable and resilient cities. It draws from more than a decade of research and...

In December 2010, the Basil Fuleihan Institute for Economy and Finance (IOF) commissioned Sofres-Liban to conduct a market assessment study on the status of Sustainable Public...

The objective of this report is to provide an overview of some of the most crucial services rendered by natural ecosystems to humankind and how they can be restored as part of...

UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable...

Given the significant increase in the number of multilateral environmental agreements, their ratification and implementation through domestic legislation has now become a top...

This two-part volume is the joint work of an international team of experts and contains essays on triangular cooperation.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, “a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity”, was adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. It includes 17...

Este trabajo se escribe mientras el mundo enfrenta la pandemia de la COVID-19, como un aporte para identificar obstáculos y generar soluciones frente a sus efectos. Respuestas...

This special publication covers the three interlinked issues: ozone depletion, climate change and energy efficiency, and helps show that today's world is full of interconnected...

Realizing sustainable development depends on “greening finance”—that is, ensuring that the financial institutions charged with allocating available financial assets take...

This report constitutes an indispensable tool for each and every coastal country, the European Union and all those trying to build a Euro-Mediterranean zone of stability and...

This volume emerged as an outcome of the Assessment of Sustainability Indicators project, again implemented jointly by SCOPE and UNEP, together with the International Human...

The primary objective of the Inclusive Wealth Report is to provide quantitative information and analysis that present a long-term perspective on human well-being and measures of...

This collection of papers has been put together to provide interested readers with a range of views about the role of environmental accounting in a relatively short, easy-to-...

Key contributions to the Congress. Speeches, articles, the Rio+20 Declaration on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability and other documents that encase the...

This paper provides an initial mapping of existing practice in G20 and other countries and, where relevant internationally, highlights areas of convergence and difference, as...

The motivation behind the growing interest in economic instruments in Brazil, China and South Korea, as in other developing countries, has been to some extent similar to that of...

The aim of this paper is to assist governments in the identification of criteria for the use of fisheries subsidies, with the dual ambition of helping WTO negotiators craft new...

The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new...

This edition of the Environmental Sustainability in Asia Publication Series reflects the progress, challenges and opportunities of the seven principal themes in Cambodia,...