334 datasets found

Hygiene and sanitation in urban areas is a struggle without respite because of the challenge of the continuous increase in urban dwellers. The increase in population is...

The UN System is committed to improving resource efficiency, achieving climate neutrality by 2020 and internalising the Sustainable Development Goals.

Each year, World Environment Day celebrates the environment and encourages action to protect our fragile ecosystems. The 2019 theme was air pollution, a global emergency that...

Africa is currently recycling only 4% of its waste. A far cry from the African Union vision that “African cities will be recycling at least 50 per cent of the waste they...

This good practice case study is part of a series of knowledge products developed by the SEA circular project to showcase exemplary market-based solutions that bring about...

As countries develop an inventory of the existing national waste management facilities, they select environmentally sound options for waste treatment using the UNEP...

A large share of the Philippines’ fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) are accessed through sari-sari stores.4 There are an estimated 800,000 of these micro-businesses...

This good practice case study is part of a series of knowledge products developed by the SEA circular project to showcase exemplary market-based solutions that bring about...

This report describes the outcomes of the Latin America and the Caribbean consultations conducted on the implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA)...

In Israel, the industrial areas, which include industrial plants, commercial centers and offices, by nature have many environmental impacts, such as air pollution, harm to open...

African economies remain insufficiently diversified. The largest percentage of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP) is derived from natural resources sectors, for...

This impact sheet on Management of Sustainable Energy Production from Integrated Waste Management and Agricultural Processing Systems provides a snapshot of results and...

This impact sheet on ‘Collaborating to facilitate investments and shifts to a green economy that can improve social wellbeing and the provision of ecosystem services in the Port...

This impact sheet on Enhancing Resource Productivity and Environmental Performance of MSMEs in Uganda through the concept of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) provides a snapshot of...

This impact sheet on Ghana e-waste model (GEMOD) provides a snapshot of results and achievements of the project under the green business development component of phase I...

COVID-19 will lead to a greater production and consumption of household and personal health related products, that could be single-use and contain valuable resources like...

Better environmental performance by businesses, restaurants and eateries in particular, attracts new environmental conscience customers who take sustainability into account when...

Wherever possible, countries should control COVID-19 waste through maximizing the use of available waste management solutions and, at the same time, look to avoid any potential...

Sustainable public procurement (SPP) is one of the priorities in the Sustainable Consumption and Production National Action Plan of Egypt and the Ministry of Planning has also...

Projects in Burkina Faso include: Groupe De Recherche Et D’analyse Appliquées Pour Le Développement, Valorisation Des Déchets De La Filière Anacarde Comme Une Source D’énergie...